Weeding- Day 4

Enclosure in which we pulled weeds 

On Friday, November 15, two other volunteers and I went to Wolf Run once again. Once we arrived, we were greeted by animal care staff manager, Savannah. It seemed as if she didn't know what to have us do, so she insisted that we pull weeds in the "middle enclosure." I have only had to pull weeds at Wolf Run one other time, but Bridgid and Char were used to this work. We first thought pulling weeds wouldn't be so bad, until we saw the size of the enclosure.

What we suspected to be almost an acre of space with weeds almost as tall as us, we decided to get to work. After attempting to pull weeds with our bare hands, we decided tools would help us better. After almost an hour, and being frustrated with how much work lay ahead of us, we decided to quit the task we had been assigned. We looked at the work we had done, and it didn't even look like we made a dent in the sea of weeds.

Bridgid, Char, and I decided to find a more entertaining task to do. Kara, one of the senior staff members, needed to let Razz out of his small enclosure, so we decided to help. Razz had been whining at us while pulling weeds. We knew he wanted to play with us, and at that point, we wanted to play with him too. Razz is a low content hybrid wolf dog and acts as any dog would. He was so excited to have new visitors.

We may have left Wolf Run feeling unaccomplished, but interacting with the dogs reminds me why are doing the work we do. Many of the wolf dogs come from abusive pasts and now bring so much joy to everyone at Wolf Run. I am excited to continue working with Wolf Run and all of the amazing animals.