A couple of Posts from last September.
The wonderful news that US Gray Wolves are now back under protection reminded me of the beautiful story of Tim and his ‘pet’ wolf Luna that was published on Learning from Dogs September, 2009.
The first article opened up as follows:
An amazing true story of a relationship between a wild wolf and a man.
This is a story of a particular event in the life of Tim Woods told to me by his brother, DR. It revolves around the coming together of a man sleeping rough, with his dog, on Mingus Mountain, and a fully grown female Gray or Grey Wolf. Mingus is in the Black Hills mountain range between Cottonwood and Prescott in Arizona, USA
You can read the full Post here.
But then I added a postscript which I am going to reproduce in full again.
The story of Luna has some interesting connections.
The person taking the picture in the Post about Tim Woods was Willie Prescott. He just happens to be the grandson of William H. Prescott from whom the town of Prescott is named. Here’s that picture again.
The gray wolf or wolf is known as Canis lupus. The domestic dog is Canis lupus familiaris. They share a common ancestry.
Regular readers will know that in our home one of the dogs is a German Shepherd dog, a male called Pharaoh who flew out with me from England a year ago. Frequently, sitting close to Pharaoh one has pondered about the day many thousands of moons ago when a wolf would have come out of his pack environment and taken up residence with man.
Who knows how that happened but the story of Luna and Tim surely must be an example of what did happen all that time ago.
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