Posts Made By: Chris Myers

Thanks for posting this vid, Tony. My wife and I lost our wolf hybrid, Moki, three years ago and our male border collie, Corin, in May. All we have left is our little 13 year old female BC. Watching your wolf pups brings back wonderful memories and feelings. Your dogs are beautiful. Moki was mostly whitish-grey and about 120 lbs. I'll try to post some pics here at some point. How did you get your pups? Are there any restrictions or ordinances in your area? When we lived in Chicago we couldn't tell our vet Moki was half wolf. I think he knew anyway but there are, or at least were, restrictions on wolf hybrids in Chi-town. Moki was as mellow as an old lab, at least until we were hiking and he'd see a deer, moose or squirrel! We've thought about getting another but don't yet know what laws are like here in Utah.

Floyd, these are fantastic! If this is what you can get with less than clear skies I can't wait to see what happens when conditions are ideal. How do you like your Orion ST80 as a guidescope?

My sympathies. Early last May my wife and I lost our border collie, Corin. He was 15. His passing was incredibly hard to take. The Iroquois tell of the "long path" that we find after death. I hope someday to find all my four legged pals waiting for me on the "long path". It will be a sweet journey with such fine companions.

I don't know about "geocentrists" -- they seem whacked -- but I'm Cubs fan and I know that they'll win the World Series someday... so I guess even a fairly rational person can ignore "overwhelming evidence" and dip into the realms of madness from time to time.

Maybe what Obama meant was that it is reprehensible when 80% of our health care costs are born by those terminally ill or their families. In other words, it is terrible to be getting the highest percentage of profit from those who are dying. Obama doesn't seem to be saying that we should withhold treatments but rather that such treatments shouldn't be so expensive as to account for 80% of health care expenditures. Lower the costs not eliminate the care.

That's one interpretation of what he meant. Of course it can be spun either way to suit ones political proclivities. It just seems like maybe it isn't worth getting so riled up about until he makes it a bit more clear what he really meant.

If it turns out that he wants to withhold certain care from terminally ill patients then I totally disagree with him. I suspect, though, that this is not what he meant.

Tony, The High Country News does regular coverage of all the wolf populations in the western states. You might be able to find some info on potential AZ populations from their website. They had a story on the movement of Idaho wolves into far northern Utah that was of interest to me given my locale. Lots of hiking with ears wide open and I still haven't seen or heard them. I'm hopeful though. Anyway, check out HCN's archives. They are a .org bunch, I think. I've read several HCN articles on NM wolves, so it's more likely your potential ones would be from that direction since the northern packs have yet to spread much farther south than northern UT. Can you tell the topic excites me? :-) Keep us posted.