People
raise a lot of animals as pets, from the usual ones such as cats and dogs to
extremely exotic ones such as snakes and most rarely wolves like Kira too.
Today’s piece of news is going to be on one such rare pet, Kira.
Kira was a 3 days old small black and
white wolf cub when it was abandoned by its mother. The small cub was
struggling to thrive alone when Alida, the rescuer, saved her.
Alida,
who took the cub in her hands raised and trained little Kira just as a dog to
give her a second chance at life.
Wolves, though not domesticated
throughout generations like dogs and other pets, can be trained with a lot of
effort and understanding.
Since
everything around was interesting and new to the cub girl, Alida had to put
extra effort on Kira. Alida had done her best to socialize Kira, that Kira met kids,
adults and even other animals too.
After a
long training of domestication, Kira won’t even hurt a single fly now.
“Kira’s
mom used to live with a family, but they didn’t manage to take care of her and
she ended up in a nursery. She no longer trusts people. Kira was born in the
same nursery.”
“If
released into the wild, there’s a high probability she will die since no one
taught her to hunt. Kira’s mother abandoned her babies when they were 3 days
old and in the nursery, so they were fed by hand. And I took her away as soon
as Kira got stronger and also first fed her with milk.”
“I took
her from the nursery when she was 28 days old. She is smart but very stubborn.
When making decisions, she focuses on herself, not me. From the very beginning,
I began the process of her socialization. She saw a huge number of dogs,
people, and children.”
“We
walked in different places so that she could study different smells, hear new
sounds. Wolves have an innate neophobia, a fear of everything new. This is a
very difficult process, long and tedious, but it is necessary so that Kira can live
with me in an urban environment and feel comfortable.”
Alida
continued to feed, teach and domesticate Kira soon after taking her out of the
nursery when she was 28 days old.
“Upbringing,
too, had its problems, but with age, it all goes away and the work bears
fruit—Kira has a stable and mild psyche, does not react to aggression from
other dogs, and does not provoke conflicts herself. She treats children very
carefully and if the child is afraid of her, she doesn’t approach him.”
Alida
took Kira on a lot of adventures to make sure that she wouldn't be scared of
the modern world.
“On the
street, people generally react with curiosity, ask to be photographed, ask if
it is dangerous to live with a wolf, and especially when there’s a child at
home (I have a 7-year-old son, Bogdan.)”
Even for Alida, differentiating Kira from
the common dogs has become impossible now. Kira is now a fully domesticated
happy doggo living with a human family and a 7-year old human sibling.
For Alida, the most frequent question
asked by passers-by is on the experience of living with a wolf and the way to
adopt a wolf.
“In real
life, people react quite normally, because Kira is very friendly and doesn’t
instill fear in people. But on the internet, people are both angry and stupid,
they write different things. Especially after a series of reports about us,
there were a lot of reports that I was acting very stupidly since I kept a
predatory animal at home.”
Make sure
to follow she.s.a.wolf on
Instagram to get updates about Kira and Alida’s life. Wolf photography too
seems to be quite interesting. Scroll down for a collection of pictures of the
majestic Kira.
Don't you
feel like you too deserve some kind of a strange pet like Kira? Make sure to
share information on your pet if you have a rare and a unique one with you. Happy
trails until we meet again!
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