{"id":7,"date":"2009-07-10T13:58:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:59:36","slug":"walking-with-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I am going walking with Wolves…..yup, real ones with long legs and teeth. <\/span><\/p>\n

The guys from The Anglian Wolf Society<\/a> have it organised.<\/p>\n

If I don’t get my ass eaten i will post up some pix on Monday of the adventure.<\/p>\n

About AWS:<\/span>
\nThe
\nSociety was founded in 1999 by Phil Watson in collaboration with Runar Naess,
\none of Scandinavia’s top canine behaviourists. Phil has a Post Graduate
\nCertificate in Canine Behaviour and Dog Training from Middlesex University. We began planning to construct
\nour own site to offer homes to zoo surplus wolves during the spring and summer
\nof 2000. We became a Company Limited by Guarantee (non-profit company) in
\nSeptember 2000 and began building our site over the winter of 2000\/2001. We
\nacquired our first wolf cubs in spring 2001 from a surplus litter born in a
\ncentre in southern England.<\/p>\n

We spent most of the year 2001 raising our cubs and developing our site
\n(with private funding) and only started facing the public in December 2001 when
\nwe began the process of building membership and making contact with overseas
\nconservation projects which we now raise funds for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within the Society, the core group – which runs our site and looks after
\nour wolves – operates on a consent and majority basis; a bit like a family.
\nThere is no rank within the Society; there are no ‘job-titles’, no ‘managers’,
\nno committees and no politics. There is a special place in our Society for
\nideology – it is round, about 18 inches high and emptied twice a week. We have a company resolution
\nthat states that we will not compromise the cause of wolf conservation by
\nindulging in competetive, abusive or defamatory behaviour towards other wolf
\nconservation groups (even though some indulge in it regularly against each other
\nand occasionally against us as well). Our site is manned and the wolves watched
\nover 24 hours a day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This weekend I am going walking with Wolves…..yup, real ones with long legs and teeth. The guys from The Anglian Wolf Society have it organised. If I don’t get my ass eaten i will post up some pix on Monday …<\/p>\n

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