This family from Zacherevye, Belarus, has been keeping wolves as pets since 2009. The head of the family, Oleg Seleh is a local game biologist, it was him who once brought wolf-cubs home.
The wolves are living on the territory of a hunting farm, two males and one female bore their young for the first time this spring. Oleg’s daughter, Alina, treats the predators as pets, those are fawning and even let her some riding. When she pets the wolves she is never bitten, quite on the contrary, they lick her in the face fully obeying as they usually do in a wolf pack with a strict hierarchy. Looking at these photos it’s hard to believe we see dangerous predators.
Elena Seleh, Oleg’s spouse, tells that her husband perfectly knows how to communicate with wolves with a special sound producing tool called “vaba”.
Oleg had his first experience of communication with wolves ten years ago. For him it was a great pleasure to see the animals willingly coming back to him.
They doubted if the tamed animals would ever bear the young. But they did, in May 2014 – now they have four wolf-cubs. Oleg says: “Two wolves is a family, three wolves is a pack”. The female wolf liked a non-leader better but the pack leader didn’t let him approach her. They have a peculiar behavior during “a wolf wedding”. The leader did really much to attract her, danced and courted for several years, and finally she got pregnant to give birth to four cubs…
Oleg says this year was especially fertile for wolves, even those tamed by people.
Their female wolf does not have much trust to adults, only Alina, the girl, may catch her. As for the males – they settled their conflicts and live in peace now.
The animals like to swim on hot days.
What could people learn from wolves? They are very faithful, and it’s genic. Something people tend to forget, these animals remember for their entire life. Even in ten years he will recognize the person who used to feed him.
They have excursions here daily, the most frequent visitors are newly married coupled, they like to take wedding pictures with wolves. Many foreigners comme too – Germans, Frenchmen, Swedes.
via belta.by
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