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Somehow, it seems to apply now more than ever!
Wolf is indeed a most noble animal. I love the story about how the dog came to be man's best friend: As Adam and Eve (OK, it's a stretch, but a lovely tale) were thrown out of the garden, God caused a chasm to open between them and all the other animals. As the chasm grew, the dog had to decide which side to remain on. At the moment before the chasm grew too wide to cross, Dog leaped over it to stand beside the people.
I truly feel that the wolf and the bear are the teachers of early human-kind as we moved to the colder north as a species. They teach what to eat, how to den from the winter, and are the best parents around.
The wolves at our sides, our dogs, are more noble and honest than most of the humans we will ever meet. Rove screwed up BIG TIME trying to use the old human loathing of the wolf as competing predator image. Under that image in our collective unconscious, there lies a much older one: the wolf as friend and partner. The wolf and the human made a pact a very long time ago. Rove is too far removed from the natural world to have known this. Another bit of evidence of how out of touch with reality the junta is.
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