WatchBoom.com - Wolf Walk
Okay, in the pictures, it looks like I’m being licked by a dog. But trust me, that’s NO dog.
It’s a 100 percent grey wolf. In the woods. Walking with my friends and me.
It was part of our morning at Northern Lights Wolf Centre just outside Golden, BC, Canada, only the first of our great winter adventures in the area.
Shelley Black and her husband Casey have been raising wolves for 18 years. Their aim is not only rescuing abandoned wolf cubs but educating the public.
“There’s so many misconceptions about wolves,” Casey told us.
For one, they really don’t lurk around woods just waiting to eat people. They’d rather avoid people, for the most part. But thanks to a lot of fiction where hapless folk are forever being devoured or myths that are really morality tales warning women of attacks by men (Little Red Riding Hood, for one), there is an ingrained public fear of wolves.