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Beautiful! I especially love the gorgeous tree illustration with the peacock and your lovely choice of pretty colours on the dresses. Very distinct and congratulations!
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I LOVE the Sunset #1 curlie and the indigo emperor… sooo pretty!
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Congratulations! 😀
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Happy Birthday Windstone Forum! One of the nicest places on the ‘net! 🙂
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Happy Canada day everyone! 🙂
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Oh my gosh! SHE’S HERE! Today* I received my wolf and I CANNOT express how unbelievably happy and grateful I am for her – Melody, thank you thank you thank you, from the bottom of my heart and my spirit! I’m almost in tears from her beauty – she’s absolutely gorgeous and I will love her FOREVER! (This dog is going NOWHERE! Haha! <3)
I've decided to name her Boone, in honour of my Grandpa who passed away last week. His nickname was 'Daniel Boone.' 🙂
My girl is a gorgeous red patch husky and oh gosh, I LOVE HER!!!! SOOOO PRETTYYY!!!
Different light, taken the next day.
And here’s the really funny picture with my hilarious cat Copernicus sitting in the background watching, wanting to play with his crazy eyes. <3
*er, two or three days ago actually, I couldn’t find my camera cord and it’s still missing so I had to borrow my dad’s. I seriously hope that I don’t have to buy a new one! Anyway, I LOVELOVELOVE Boone and she’s a keeper so sorries, but she’s not for trades or sale. 🙂 (And never will be!) First Windstone ever and she’s super special! (Plus, there were memories of this tragic time attached to her before she ever arrived and she will help me keep those memories in my heart! 🙂 )
Looove her!!!!
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I can absolutely tell haha! Also, pebble danes would be cute. 🙂
That must have been an amazing experience! I’m quite jealous – except for the wolves at the centre, I’ve never met any in real life or even seen them in the wild and I’ve driven through the Rockies many times. If you ever want to find out good information about wolves, it’s an awesome place to go to. Their omega, Wiley, is HUGE. His paws were literally bigger than my hands. They only howled once when I was there and it was the most incredible sound that I had ever heard, somewhere between the sound of a South American flute and the cry of a loon. Epic.
Also, my GB wolf MIGHT be here but I can’t know until I can get to my post office later today – they don’t deliver door to door here! Gah!! Photos when it arrives!
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Amazing work Kyrin!
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Well OK heres mine……..let me know what they are!! Both have yellow/gold eyes. Both are beautiful and the pics are taken indoors, no flash, natural light from window.
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Branzy, both of these are 100% purebred husky, if you are judging from real wolves and dogs. Wolves never have white blaze markings (white between or over eyes in a mask) on their faces or blue eyes – such markings are traits of domestic animals ONLY and are never found in pure wild animals such as wolves. Also, I’d like to make a note that most of even the wolfish huskies in the grab bag are not in fact wolves because silver (no brown in coat) is actually an extremely rare colouration amongst wolves – 80% of wolves are agouti, which is a mix of grey and reddish brown or tan (brown generally found on muzzle, ears, flanks, legs and tail.) Black wolves are more common than silver ones, as are white arctic wolves if you consider that arctic wolves as a subspecies only come in that colour. As another thing to note, ALL wolves, even black and white ones, usually have a miriad rainbow of subtle colour in their fur – they’re not just ginger or silver or black like dogs like huskies are. Also, wolves do not come in black & brown like your first husky – when they’re black, other colours are mixed into their pelts with no real definable border unless they’re elderly. (Then they look very grey.)
In general, here are some defining marking rules for telling Vladmir the wolf apart from Fido the dog:
1. Wolves do not usually have well defined white markings (unless they are alphas) and NEVER have white markings between their eyes. Their white markings usually appear quite faded into the rest of their coat. 99% of wolves DO NOT have white tail tips unless they are old. White tail tips are a common trait in huskies but most wolves instead usually have charcoal coloured tail tips and a dark spot halfway up their tail which is actually a scent gland. Wolves have multicoloured pelts.
2. Dogs, like huskies, have extremely well defined, vivid white markings such as socks, stars and blazes on their faces. Only domesticated animals can have markings such as these (I recommend looking into the Russian silver fox experiment for an explanation of why this is) and such markings are never present in purebred, truly wild, populations.
3. Though this obviously does not apply to these wolfies, (which are anatomically perfect btw!) a good way to tell a wolf from a dog is by its tail. Purebred wolves cannot sickle their tails (curl them in a ‘C’ shape) at all. Instead, their tails hang limp and their tail posture is quite different from dog posture when raised, wolves usually holding their tails straight out behind their haunches (this occurs particularly frequently when the animal hunting.) Also, pure wolves have small, rounded ears whereas most dogs have large pointy ones. Husky ears are very angular.
4. Another way to tell a wolf from a dog is by its face – wolves have almost no stop where as dogs may have a very big one. A stop is the vertical distance between the top of an animal’s head above its eyes and its nose. If that sounds tricky, there’s an even easier way to tell a wolf from a dog by it’s body structure – wolves are extremely thin, lanky animals (though often covered by several inches of heavy fur) and hold their legs very close together. This is especially noticeable from the front – wolves have very narrow, deep chests whereas dogs have barrel chests and hold their feet quite far apart.
5. The last way to tell Vladmir from Fido is, if you can, to watch him move. A wolf handler described wolves to me as ferraris, smooth, silky poetry in motion – and described dogs as moving rather like Model Ts with more jarring gaits. Excluding the sight hound breeds such as deerhounds, wolfhounds, salukis and greyhounds as examples of such dogs, wolves are faster with more endurance than your average pooch, thanks to their deep chests, big paws (which act like snow shoes in winter conditions) and long legs.Here’s some pictures of Tuk, a purebred, rather elderly mature adult beta male wolf that I met once.
Notice all the colours? Tuk was a pure black wolf when he was younger. This is him going greyer.
Small, rounded ears.
Long front legs are held very close together. Large paws. Narrow chest.
Tail is never sickled. Wolves may have lighter tips to their tails (like Tuk’s) only if they’re elderly (like Tuk) because their tails grey out just as their muzzles do. Very straight top line.
Aspen – note tan/brown colouration on ears and in fur. Note black saddle on back and silver hackle marking around shoulders. Note how faded her white markings are, barely discernible from the rest of her coat. Note faint brown on top of muzzle.
Note minimal distance of Aspen’s stop.
Compare to siberian husky. (Images are free domain from http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/siberian_husky.html .)
Beautiful classic silver husky! Note bold white markings and wide set of legs from barrel chest. Small paws. White tail tip.
Classic black husky! Again, markings are very bold.
Note sickling of tail. This does not occur in wolves. Note blue eyes – also uncommon in wolves. Eyes are usually amber or silver.
Please note that agouti colouration (grey & brown) DOES occur in huskies. However, it is rare compared to more desired colours such as black, silver and red.
Well, I hope this helped!! 🙂 Sorry for the text wall haha, I know quite a lot on this subject. The photos of Aspen and Tuk are from an off leash photography hike that I did with them about four years back. Sadly, I didn’t have a very good camera. Their handlers (alphas!) taught me how to discern wolves from dogs and I felt that this was knowledge worth passing on. 🙂 Tuk passed away last year in the summer of 2011 (RIP.) He and Aspen belong to Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre in Golden, British Columbia, Canada. Aspen is actually a wolf dog but she’s so wolfish that it’s quite hard to tell that she has any pooch at all in her. The only signs she really gave that she had any dog in her at all was the very, very slight way that she sickled her tail sometimes and her shortish legs. Otherwise, her anatomy and colouring was extremely wolf.
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Oh gosh, this is like the thread for people who can’t stand adorableness! My family has rescued one cat and I’ve rescued two. I’ll show you all three.
Mamma Kitty was rescued by us in 1997. She was a yearling stray who had come to our back door to eat her compost because she was literally starving – the cause? KITTENS! She was preggers with EIGHT babies! We took her in and she lived very happily with us until she passed away at twelve years old in 2009. We believe that she had diabetes. 🙁 I still really miss her. She was a lush! And an uber hunter – she caught a PHEASANT once!
We’re all very proud of our old warrior queen. 🙂
This is Casper. He showed up in my backyard last year and he was so feral and terrified of people that I couldn’t even look at him let alone touch him. However, while he was afraid of humans he wasn’t afraid of other cats so with the help of my older kitty Copernicus, I managed to capture him. The two of them are still buddies and a year later, Casper loves the tar out of me and recently, every time I’ve picked him up, providing no one else is around, he starts PURRING! This is an absolute about face from how he used to behave! I’m SO proud of him!!!
The last cat I rescued is Copernicus. His rescue isn’t the same kind as most people’s cats (caught outside or SPCA) – I got him actually from a rather horrible pet store where I happened to be working. (I hated it but it was a job.) The reason I say he was rescued was because he and his litter of for were having a very bad reaction to the kibble that my manager insisted on feeding them – they were having bloody diahrea. We told him over and over again to change their food but the manager did nothing for over a month or more. Copernicus was one of the worst. Eventually, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I hunted down a new place to live, swiped my credit card (I just had to get him out of that situation) and immediately changed Copernicus’ diet. He still has a sensitive stomach but luckily, he’s got me, a human who understands his special needs (and who has a lot of feline nutritional expertise incidentally haha.) He’s now two years old and HUGE! His poop is normal.
I know some people might not call that a rescue, but I do. I would have been quite scared leaving him to be adopted to someone who would feed him something off the grocery shelf like whiskas. (I know most people probably do feed whiskas but it’s actually really not a good food no matter what the advertising says. It’s chock full of corn which cats can’t even digest it because they’re strict obligate carnivores. Some really hardy cats from like farm cat stock can survive on the cheap stuff sure, but it would probably lend super sensitive kitties like Copernicus an early death. His food bill is more because he eats higher quality stuff but he also eats less of it because it has more actual full out meat in it – no by-products.) Darn, I sound like a bloody pet food commercial – sorry about that – anyway, here’s the big fluffy guy!
He doesn’t really like being out on the leash because the great outdoors really spooks him. This was his first encounter with snow.
Agh! Sorry about the hugeness of the pictures. I’m not sure how to make them smaller. If you click them, you can see the full thing. 🙂
I really, really love my kitties. (NEED some flap cats!) I have to be very careful about rescuing any more though (my limit is three) because I’m pretty poor. Three’s about all I can afford. Since I have two male orange tabbies, my next someday cat has to be female and not orange haha! And a lap cat. Copernicus and Casper both kinda fail at being dedicated lap kitties. They’d rather I just pet them.
Everyone’s cats are gorgeous btw!!!
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Wow Matroyska, beautiful classic wolf! Love his/her face!
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Voted! Go Windstone, go!
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Super amazing cat run! This is something I’m dreaming of doing someday too and yours is the first that I’ve seen that’s been so pretty and hasn’t looked like a dirt floored cage with the grass and stuff. I know the kitties don’t quite care but I also know how much they love grass and I think cat runs should be pretty places for people to hang out with their adorable kitties! Yours is amazing!
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Very neat, nice work!
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Very striking Copper! I’m still waiting on mine but I got a shipping slip today (unknown what it’s for) so maaaaybe my wolfie is waiting at the post office for me! Yee! Loving seeing everyone’s gorgeous wolves, makes me kinda nervous and excited all at once haha. 🙂
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