Weekend in Germany with Friends, Wolfdogs and Wolves

[massimo]

Next stop Hannover, at Christian’s house.
Of course, I love U’tala, Olivers son, Noomi, beautiful timberwolf/wolfdog, but a special feeling links me to Myla Crying wolf .. somehow I know I love that dog and somehow I know she feels the same for me.
Met Miguel and Daniela, with their beautiful Farna and the 7 puppies!
I admire him for his will to breed looking for dogs with calm characters and choose the parents consequently.
Met Tanja Askani, a special person with many years experience with wolves who dedicated an entire day for us answering to all our questions, showing us adult wolves (artic and European) who licked my fingers through the fence and somehow I didn’t fear at all.
The most beautiful wolf I’ve ever seen is Shadow…take a look at those beautiful YELLOW eyes.

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[massimo]

But…surprise surprise…the greatest sensation of all the trip was the short walk with Noran, one of the artic wolves, tall I believe at least 80cm specially if you compare him to Noomi who is approx 71cm and seems a dwarf compared to him. He walks next to Tanja on a Lead like a normal tamed dog… and is totally inoffensive and obedient.

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I think that with a bit of meat…you could obtain many things from him.
Also Tanja cannot believe that he is still like this at 21 months…already at 6 months she was asking herself how long I would last.


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It was a really great feeling, trust me!


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Greatest honour of all was to hold Noran’s leash…with Tanja more than 50 m away from us he was not pulling at all and stopping when I was stopping… I can’t believe I had a bigger dog than my oliver near me!



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It was a marvellous experience all around and I must repeat my thanks specially to my friends Michael and Christian.

[michaelundinaeichhorn]

Thank you Massimo for your wonderful pictures, we enjoyed to have you with us.
And regards from Gerda/Tatra and our other dogs and wolfs.

Hope to see you again soon
Ina and Michael

[saschia]

Hi Massimo, thanks for sharing... Beautiful pictures and I envy you the stay with wolves, they are so ... wolfish ... or how to say that. Serenity comes to mind, even if they are baring their teeth...

[Per Olav]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing these exciting pics
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Per Olav

[michaelundinaeichhorn]

Hello Massimo,

next time we stay longer with the wolves.

See you,

Michael

[Vaiva]

Wow, this is really wonderful. Great pictures, great experiences