Lots of gratitude this Sunday
Visiting friends from Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary (from left to right): Paul, Fish, and Corey. Mission: Wolf Staff, Paul, shares a grin after a full day of prepping donated food for two sanctuaries’ worth of wolves and wolfdogs. In the back, you can see a M:W truck loaded with extra food for the freezer and their van loaded for the drive back to New Mexico.
We’re filled with lots of gratitude today!
The wolves would go hungry if not for a local community of ranchers who reach out when they have an animal at the end of its life. Where most might end up in a landfill, theirs can be donated to Mission: Wolf and continue the circle of life.
We’re thankful that when the wolves have more food than staff can bargain for, our friends at Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico are willing to drive many miles here and back to help. We get helping hands for the day and they get a truck load of food to haul back, helping fill dozens of wolf bellies at Wild Spirit. Mutualism at its finest!
We’re also grateful for sunshine today and the recent moisture which has the trees budding, wildflowers blooming, and green starting to appear across the landscape. The first hummingbirds and butterflies of the year were spotted the last couple days! Summer is on its way.
Ok one more: building on our appreciation of the local community, we’re VERY grateful for our neighbors at Tony’s Mountain Pizza at times like this. After a long day in the sun, a slice of their pizza or a calzone really hit the spot.
It’s officially nap time for Lyra after eating her “big feed”: several pounds of meat all at once to simulate the feast-and-famine type of diet wolves have in the wild
Some spring moisture means the first wildflowers of the season, Eastern Pasqueflower, started to pop up around the sanctuary within the last week