Wolf (never cry)

Journey.  He wandered into California last week, has a webpage and is a young bachelor without buddy or mate.   You won't find him on match.com but he may be checking out your herd.  As you would expect, animal enthusiasts are yelling about shooting wolves and ranchers are worried about their livestock.   Unless this wolf gets all immaculate conceptiony, I'm thinking he's just neat. 

If you feel like reading about saving the wolves, check out the Defenders of Wildlife site.

If you want to read more about the history of wolf issues, check out The Wolf That Changed America (PBS).

While looking for the above links, and sadly searching"kill the wolves" in an attempt to find some anti-wolf material, I came across some terrible, glorifying blogs about hunting wolves and different ways of trapping and shooting them. Ugh. So, here's a quote from Jack London's White Fang, which I shall now go read in its entirety to cleanse my soul. 

Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to [other dogs] the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild. He symbolized it, was its personification; so that when they showed their teeth to him they were defending themselves against the powers of destruction that lurked in the shadows of the forest and in the dark beyond the camp-fire.