Autumn
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Sponsor: Christina Dalamangas
Sex: Female
Status: Resident
Rescue Group: EagleWolf
Penmate(s):
Wolf Content: High
Birthdate:
Description: Autumn is a high-content F1. She is of average female size, has green-yellow eyes, and a gray wild pelt. Autumn is very energetic and loves to play. She is highly intelligent and social, but somewhat unpredictable.
Autumn should not be approached without an experienced guide who knows her well. Autumn, for reasons of her own, decides that she either "likes" or does not "like" you. Despite her preference, she will usually act excited and submissive as people approach (rubbing the fence, whining, displaying a submissive "grin," and holding the tail low while wagging). It isn't until the person is very close that Autumn will bare her teeth and growl or not--depending upon whether she "likes" you. If she indicates that she does not want to be approached by baring teeth or growling, then you should not approach despite other body language that may seem to the contrary.
She is enthusiastically affectionate to those she has accepted, and she doesn't generally change her way of reacting to a certain person. However, she does have many idiosyncratic behaviors that we think are based, in part, on a past spinal injury that may give her some irritation. When being handled, she will often attempt to nip very quickly--especially if you are touching her hindquarters or back. She also rolls onto her back in a fashion that looks tortuously uncomfortable, and has a tendency to kick constantly while in that position. In the pen with her, she does not leave you for a moment and jumps, mouths, and pushes constantly.
Story: Yeddy, Unk, Dream, Ten Bears, Cherokee, Washi, Monty, and KK were personal animals of the owners of the Eaglewolf rescue in Tennessee. Timber, Autumn, Zeus, Bailey, Noshi, Mingo, Maia, Fang and Hamlet were EagleWolf rescues. Strider, Matsi and Tadu were personal animals of two EagleWolf volunteers. All were relocated from the EagleWolf facility in January, 2003 following an apparent case of abandonment, though it was later found that the issue was much more complicated. The EagleWolf volunteers remained at Full Moon Farm for a time and left in May, 2003 taking four animals with them that were not returned until 2005.