Canis Lupus

I recently decided to get my credit card a new look. After a security breach earlier this year, I had been reissued the standard plain jane card. Normally, I would always get some kind of crazy geometric shapes on my card. It's always when I go into a small town and end up at a place like Wendy's and the person working the counter will take my card and stop, hold it up, and say 'wow! that is one crazy looking card." Well, this time as I was scrolling through, the card with a picture of a Wolf stuck out to me. Ya know, those Wolf Eyes, that stare. Did you know they tilt their heads down slightly to ensure that the strip of their retinas with the most receptors is fully used?

So yah, the Wolf stare is an amazing thing. It seems to catapult them from wild animal to an old intelligence that can see into your soul. No?

I was at the BX the other day and the woman working at the register was sitting down. She was overweight, with short reddish hair, and large red tinted glasses. She's says, "cash, credit, or debit?" I tell her credit and hand over my card. She takes it from me and pauses for 2 whole seconds and then breathes in and says, "oh my goodness! Can you believe I have the very same card?!!!" She points to her name tag and her name is......... Wolfina!!!!!

She asks me if I am a 'wolf lover'. Asa is listening to this conversation as well as the two other people in line behind me. What would you say to this? I decided to say 'yahhhhh' in a positive tone while nodding my head in a manner that said 'yes I think so'. Wolfina asks me if I am up to speed on the current struggles of wolves. I say ever so innocently, noooo. So she stops and prints out some paper to write down a web address for me. She tells me about how Wolves are being shot by farmers and that there's a program that will come in and pay the farmers fair maket value for any damage and peacefully remove the wolves.

You can go here to see this web site!

Finally, Wolfina encourages me to come through her line again. She has "so much more to tell me" and that meeting another Wolf lover is so rare these days. Holy cow , what did I get myself into? I admire her passion for the wolves, but I was glad I didn't have to go through her line again.