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Zephyr: Rest in Peace

A couple days ago, the Wolf Conservation Center in New York announced the tragic news that their beloved ambassador wolf, Zephyr, pass away due. This artwork is dedicated to Zephyr, his siblings, Nikai and Alawa, and the Wolf Conservation Center. This is for all they have done to protect wolves and educate people about them as well as for bringing light and love into our homes with their majestic howls.  Rest in Peace, sweet Zephyr. May you rest well and forevermore frolic with all of wolves' past. _____ Artwork based on the photo of Zephyr from this posting from the Wolf Conservation Center: https://nywolf.org/2022/07/rest-in-peace-zephyr/ _____ Check out the Wolf Conservation Center at: https://nywolf.org https://twitter.com/nywolforg

NY Wolf.Org – Open Book Blog Hop #103

                ♦Welcome to another edition of the Open Book Blog Hop!♦

Topic #103

Talk about your favorite charity and why it’s your favorite?

Welcome back to another edition of the Open Book Blog Hop! If you’re new to the series, the authors included are grateful for your reads and appreciate, even more so, when you share our writings with your friends. If you’re new to the series, welcome aboard. The authors engage and impress weekly. Be prepared to become a regular reader.

Followers of the blog have already read an article sometime ago in which NYWolf.org was highlighted. It was a piece promoting the publication of my third novel and the first chapter in The Trailokya Trilogy. The books are not the only reason that this organization means a great deal to me. I was raised with dogs, and they share almost 99% of their DNA with wolves. I see wolves much like I see my canine companions: essential.

NY Wolf has ambassadors on property, but they do not engage in raising these animals for profit (zoos, private ownership, release). Instead, they are a research and education based facility. They do receive pups for integration in the packs that they have. Their most famous ambassador is Atka.

Part of their push is to change the centuries old perception of wolves as dangerous to man. Wolves are truly essential to a healthy ecosystem. Ranchers, however, would like to perpetuate the fable of the Big Bad Wolf, as it makes raising cattle a lot easier (in that world, they don’t have to watch for any predators, and can spend more time on other things on the ranch—like solitaire. Pardon my sarcasm, but there’s no reason they can’t keep an eye on their cattle, other than they don’t want, are too cheap to employ hands, and would prefer time on the x-box. I shed no tears for those who chose a hard life, imagining they were going to make millions on the meat trade, and lose a couple animals because they fail at doing their job).