~ Rock in his pond ~

My McKenzie Valley Arctic Timber Wolves

WOLF HAIR FLIER

When asking poacher and people who kill animals why they do such, the top answers are "to see it up close" or "to get it's medicine". This made me decide to start saving my wolves' naturally shed hair, spin it and create wearable art. I, also, save their naturally shed baby teeth and mount them in jewelry. Let's call attention to the living and make them valuable - not just the dead! This practice of worshiping the dead at the expense of the living has got to go. Dead gods, dead animals, dead dead - what about worshiping life and the living?? It just makes so much more since on our dieing planet!

Everyone loves knowing abit about the wolf that a hat or bag came from - her hobbies or favorite foods! A living wolf that can love you and take you on walks will teach you far more than some poor senselessly murdered fellow that most definately has absolutely no reason to like you. My wolves think it's neat when someone is wearing their fur. It's good for a smile and a wag. Their fur is an arctic coat type in that they are triple coated. They have long guard hairs that can get 4 inches long and show color, then a fur that is basically white but might have alittle color on the tips with the fur next to the skin being a soft down layer. This layer gets thicker with cold weather stimulation. Mine like the wood stove and had rather stay in if it's very cold. However, they love nothing more than a nice long mountain run on a very cold very dark night. They are wolves!!!!!!!!

McKenzie Arctic Wolves are large fun loving predators that bear witness as the Teacher Totem of North America. They are from the McKenzie Mountain Range, the northern most area of the Rocky Mountains (that runs into the Arctic Circle). Queen Victoria established the 1st national park there - the McKenzie National Park. This is the current home of the McKenzie Valley Arctic Timber Wolves. These are very severe extreme mountain area of very severe extremes. McKenzie wolves have a large range and often maintain a 500 mile perimeter around there lair. This could have helped them develop their near 200 pound body mass and their very deep pack notes. Living in both the arctic area and the timber lines, they are consider both an arctic and a timber wolf with Canus Lupi McKenius and Canus Lupis Occenditalas being called the McKenzie wolves (the 2 largest wolves on Earth). Canus Lupi McKenius is white and stays white while Occidentalus is chameleon-like in that it changes colors turning white in winter.

I take very good care of their hair all year, then brush them during their Spring shedding and wash/dry this fur. It is then given to a professional spinner for spinning/carding/cleaning. The fur is returned as yarn and is used for our crocheting pleasure. The different wolf's fur is processed separately so each piece is from a specific wolf with a separate wolf write-up. Pieces still have wolf lanolin/smell and are much softer and warmer than lambs wool.

McKenzie Arctic Wolves are large fun loving predators that bear witness as the Teacher Totem of North America. They are from the McKenzie Mountain Range, the northern most area of the Rocky Mountains that runs into the Arctic Circle. Queen Victoria established the 1st national park there - the McKenzie National Park. This is currently the protected home of the McKenzie Valley Arctic Timber Wolves. They live in both the arctic area and the timber lines so they are consider both an arctic and a timber wolf. Both Canus Lupi McKenius and Canus Lupis Occenditalas are considered the McKenzie wolves and are 2 of the largest wolves on Earth. Canus Lupi McKenius is white and stays white while Occidentalus is chameleon-like in that it changes colors and can turn white. These are very severe extreme mountain area of very severe extremes. McKenzie wolves have a large range and often maintain a 500 mile perimeter around there lair. This could have helped them develop their near 200 pound body mass. They weight about a pound at birth in litters of about 8, about 80 pounds at 6 months and 120 pounds at 10 months (when they are around 25 to 27 inches at the shoulder). The shewolves are smaller. This fast growth rate requires maximum quality and maximum quanity food. They must have a meat based diet throughout their lives. Raw meat makes for a nice treat and is a necessary dietary supplement. I suggest raw frozen chicken or chicken popcycles. An interesting way to give them herbal supplements is to place the dosages you want in each of an ice trays cube slots and fill it with chicken broth, freeze, put into bags and give to critter. McKenzies have some of the hugest and most beautiful teeth in the wolf world along with some of the heaviest bones so a high, balanced calcium level is very important. While they eat primarily mice and small rodents in the wild they still consume a large of amount of bone, cartilage and high calcium meats. One of the first symptoms of defecenties is perminate vision damage and blindness. Wolves are sweet, goofy, gentle, incredibly loving and one of the planet's most fiercely successful pack predator. They are smart, crafty, stealthy and up for competitive games. "Hide and go seek", ambush and control and singing are their favorite childhood past times. They never grow up! Our pack note is A flat and anytime or anywhere it goes off - they go off. Window rattling loud! Mom howls over them while they are 1 to 3 days old, until they have then they have their pack note for life. They do a pack howl at dusk and dawn to gather the pack or in a serious situation but singing is usually done in the early evenings. One sings a melody then another repeats it exactly then changes the ending. They sort of bat around a melody like a vollyball. They love human participation but one must respect their rules. It's interesting to hear a pack of wolves all howling the same note from a variety of locations. It seems impossible to pinpoint one or have any idea how many their are. It is a sound that plays with echos, as well. They seem to howl the felling of the bowls of the Earth. They are blues singers to the ultimate max!! They reveal their heart and soul in one long note of passion and total expression. I have heard them copy bird songs and Maria Carrie music often. The whin, also ant that seems to be their language. Small short whins giving their location or intent in a expressive way. In some way music has evolved within some species and is some type of selection advantage. Maybe it all started with simple self expression of emotion?

When asking poacher and people who kill animals why they do, the top answer is to see it up close or to get it's medicine. This made me decide to start saving their naturally shed hair, having it spun and made into wearable art. I save their naturally shed baby teeth and mount them in metals as jewelry and wearable art. Let's call attention to the living and make them valuable - not just the dead. This practice of worshiping the dead at the expense of the living has got to go. Dead gods, dead animals, dead dead - what about worshiping life and the living?? It just makes so much more since on a dieing planet! People love knowing abit about the wolf that their hat or bag came from - her hobbies or favorite food! A living wolf that likes you and take you on walk can teach you far more than some poor senselessly murdered fellow that most definately has no reason to like you. My wolves think it's neat when someone is wearing their fur. It's good for a smile and a wag. Their fur is an arctic coat type in that they are triple coated. They have long guard hairs that can get 4 inches long and show color, then fur that is basically white but might have alittle color on the tips and next to the skin a soft down layer. This layer gets thicker with cold weather stimulation. Mine like the wood stove and had rather stay in if it's very cold. However, they love nothing more than a nice long mountain run on a very cold very dark night!! They are wolves.

Wolves are carnivores preying namely on wild game - namely rodents, fowl, fish and other smaller prey. They have been known to consume nuts, berries and other vegetable matter on occasion too. Their eating habits can be defined as 'Feast or Famine". A wolf may go hungry for several days, and after a kill consume as much as 20 lbs of meat after which the wolf will stagger away - meat drunk - to sleep and digest the meal.

Roaming

Wolves are territorial - establishing hunting territories which they constantly scent mark to keep intruders away and demarcate their territorial boundaries. Their keen sense of smell makes them scent-oriented animals and will use urine and feces to mark leave marks territory which tell other wolves about each others presence. Wolves can also tell the type of diet, the sex, and the health of the wolf based on these olfactory messages. To enhance this 'calling card' wolves also have scent glands located along the sides of the muzzle, at the base of the tail, and on bottom of their paws.

McKenzie have the largest wolf territory and the 2nd largest land territory. McKenzie's roam 500 to 1000 miles from their dens in the wild and constantly in capitivity.


~ Lilith at Rodman Dam ~

A Fond Farewell

I Love Lucy (January 12, 1984 ~ July 3, 2010) and Rock Hudson Jr. (born January 14, 1983 ~ July 3, 2010) were well loved McKenzie Artic Timber Wolves with a large Lesbian/lesbian following. They had attended and held workshops at numerous womyn’s festival all over the US and Canadian border teaching many women and children how to howl properly on our pack’s A flat pack note. At outdoor festivals they loved to teach how to form a circle, what it is and why. They taught; I just watched. Many womyn would call me after festivals/workshops crying about the high level of communication possible between critters and humans stating how we are totally missing critter guidance as a culture.

A couple of the more interesting awards they received since moving to Florida 6 years ago are Lucy’s receiving the blue ribbon for Best Butt at the St. Pete Pride Dog Show and Rock receiving Butch of the Festival at a Southern Womyn’s Music Festival, an honor usually reserved for a human womyn. He had won that dog show as a wolf, as well. Daytona Pride awarded the entire pack a rainbow framed certificate of appreciation. The 2nd day after moving to Florida they held a workshop in front of the old womyn’s coffee house in Melrose helping rescue Florida’s Lost Wolf Rescue. That same year Rock held a children’s Magical Animals Workshop for a Harry Potter Day at Wild Iris Books being a huge hit with about 20 children. They loved carrying their “I Want A Governor Skin Coat” sign at a Villages Sarah Palin rally. They taught several workshops at state universities with many Ph.D animal behavior specialists taking their 1st class from a critter with Rock even making the front page of the Starkville newspaper (Mississippi State). They were regulars at several local pow wows having many Native friends. I have seen much good and human education come from their lives.

Rock and Lucy were quite happy but had most things wrong with them for the last few year taking numerous Walmart prescrption drugs, special diets, etc. Rock was Lucy’s uncle with her mother, Lilith, having been a cover girl for Kindred Spirits’ September 2009 issue. South Interlachen and the Ocala National Forrest are much emptier and quieter with their loss. Rock went peacefully in his favorite hole in the late morning probably of his heart. Lucy went in the afternoon under a beautiful Live Oak tree from cancer and heart trouble. They are buried in the same grave in a beautiful spot next to their own lake by a glorious Florida magnolia tree. Hecate garden soon to follow. Ahoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!



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