JM

=﻿ The Dog that Howls at the Moon=

mirror mirror in the snow
I am about 3 feet tall and 4 feet long. I weigh about 100 pounds and have 42 teeth. I am gray, tan, white or any combination of those colors. I am related to dogs, so I have thick and shaggy fur like a German Shepard. Some people think my bushy tail looks like a squirrels tail. My ears stick up and I am so soft.

you just don't under stand
Humans are my biggest threat. They hunt me because I eat there livestock but just because I eat cows they kill my species. This is wrong because we turn it into food. I need to EAT.

home sweet home
I can live in many different places like Alaska and Canada. I have even been known to live in the Poconos in Pennsylvania! I sleep in a den. A den is usually a cave, or carved out rock section, with a pile of rocks on top of each other near the entrance, but I can still get in. If you ever been to the Lehigh Valley Zoo, some of us have a home there. The zoo also offers an example of a den that human children can go inside an act like a wolf and howl.

A bad name
Have you ever heard the story Little Red Ridding Hood? Yah, its a good story but it gives me a bad name. I can't blow down a house. I don't think I have ever been known to put a grandma's clothes on and sleep in her bed. Although, if a few pigs were lying there dead, I wouldn't let a good meal go to waste. This is being resourceful, not a bully. Humans need to understand more about me, then maybe they wouldn't be so afraid. I'm really very nice, but very shy.