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Newsletter Spring 2003 PAGE 1 Florida Lupine NEWS Volume 5, Issue 1 SPRING 2003 Published Quarterly Seacrest Wolf Preserve for Members. Free By Cynthia Watkins to Veterinarians, Florida is home to the only wolf preserve in Shelters, Donors, the southeastern United States. The Seacrest Wolf Preserve, located on 430 acres in Sponsors, Rescues, Washington County, in Florida’s panhandle, is a and Animal Welfare licensed facility organized solely for educational and humane purposes. & Control Agencies. The Wolf and Our Environment FLA 2001-3 Directors The wolf is one of the most misunderstood and persecuted animals on earth. Long ago, man Al Mitchell, President under-estimated the valuable and profound place that this important carnivore holds in the Barbara Speer-Skeoch ecosystems in which it lives. Through the efforts Mayo Wetterberg of caring and concerned people, we are learning Jody Haynes how wolves play an important and vital role in our world. Kim Miles Before European settlers came to this country, the native Americans lived in harmony with all of nature. The wolf, in particular, was Inside This Issue: one of the most revered and valued of all animals. Native Americans emulated many of Seacrest Wolf Preserve 1 the wolf’s hunting skills and highly respected its intelligence. Not until the settler’s timbering of the land FLA Acknowledgements 2 and the disappearance of wild game was the available a variety of camping areas and a wolf forced to find other food sources and, unique wildlife gift shop. From the Desks of . 3 hence, the annihilation of this beautiful animal began. It was slaughtered barbarically to the You Can Make a Difference brink of extinction. In fact, the wolf totally Giardia: A Common Puppy 5 disappeared from the lower 48 states. Today, thanks to the Endangered Species Worm Act and the efforts of caring and concerned Our Goal people, the wolf is making somewhat of a Are You a Wolf or Wolfdog 7 comeback; however, wolves still face many Breeder? At Seacrest Wolf Preserve, we envision a challenges. place for school groups, adult and children’s Seacrest Wolf Preserve was founded by The Mexican Lobo who groups, as well as individuals to come and learn Cynthia and Wayne Watkins to help the 8 Adopted a Little Girl about wolves in a natural setting. Our goal is to wolf’s plight. Their philosophy is “one person provide a safe, humane habitat for displaced can’t change the world, but together, in a wolves and to educate all that visit, including collective effort, we can make a Recipe for Weight Gain 11 our children, who some day will be the care- difference!!!!” Seacrest Wolf Preserve is a takers of our planet. non-profit organization providing a safe Coccidia: A Common Puppy We provide educational lectures and tours, 12 haven for unwanted, abandoned wolves and Worm photo opportunities, and howling sessions with also wolves requiring placement. the wolves. In addition, we plan to make (Continued on page 6) Dog Anatomy Diagram 13 PAGE 2 FLORIDA LUPINE NEWS VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 Letters, advertisements, and articles do not necessarily Florida Lupine Association reflect the views of FLA. We welcome all comments, A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization advertisements, and articles but require that they are signed EIN: 59-3586075 and include a phone number and address (which will remain Dedicated to Being Florida’s unpublished if the author states in writing). FLA and the Responsible Voice for Wolfdogs Editor reserve the right to edit any material submitted for publication in the Florida Lupine News. Letters,Letters, AdvertisementsAdvertisements && FLA Acknowledgements PicturesPictures areare toto bebe sentsent toto Special thanks to those who provided donations or contributed their services to FLA this quarter: Kim Miles, Editor 9525 Jamaica Drive ∗ The members who contributed behind the scenes Miami, FL 33189-1709 in preparation for the 2003 Spring Rendezvous. Phone: (305) 278-7022 ∗ Cheryl Hazzard for contributing her article on FAX: (305) 253-7041 wolfdog breeders to the FLA newsletter. E-Mail: [email protected] ∗ Cynthia Watkins for contributing her article on the All submissions will become property of Seacrest Wolf Preserve—the only wolf preserve in Florida Lupine unless accompanied by a SASE. the Southeast. ∗ With the ending of a term, Florida Lupine Association, Inc., wishes to acknowledge the Board of Directors for a term well served, from 2001 to Contributions,Contributions, Dues,Dues, && QuestionsQuestions 2003: Al Mitchell, President; Mayo Wetterberg, aboutabout FLAFLA areare toto bebe sentsent to:to: Vice President and Treasurer; Barbara Speer- Skeoch, Secretary; Jody Haynes, Webmaster; and Florida Lupine Association, Inc. Kim Miles, Editor. This Board’s term of service P.O. Box 771615 expires on June 30 and the new Board of Directors Ocala, FL 34477-1615 will assume their positions on July 1, 2003. Many E-Mail: [email protected] thanks to the hard work of these five individuals. If sending snail mail, please allow 2-3 weeks for a reply. All original art, photos, drawings, articles and other material within this Newsletter are Copyright© and are the property of FLA, Inc., except where otherwise indicated and credited. ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT INFORMATIONINFORMATION FloridaFlorida LupineLupine AssociationAssociation Pricing Information: DirectorsDirectors && OfficersOfficers 1/8 Page: $5.00 1/4 Page: $10.00 1/2 Page: $20.00 Full Page: $50.00 Al Mitchell, President *Photos: $5.00 Processing Fee for each photo Mayo Wetterberg, Treasurer No Breeder Advertisements Allowed; Kennel Names & Kennels May be Advertised Barbara Speer-Skeoch, Secretary (All submissions will become property of Florida Lupine unless accompanied by a SASE) Jody Haynes, Webmaster Deadlines for Submission: Kim Miles, Editor Spring NL: March 31 Fall NL: Sept. 30 Summer NL: June 30 Winter NL: Dec. 31 VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 FLORIDA LUPINE NEWS PAGE 3 From the Desk of the President From the “Virtual” Desk By Al Mitchell of the Webmaster By Jody Haynes We have known for quite some time that State Fish & Game officers have been having The FLA website has been updated with three new problems defining which animals should be issues of the Florida Lupine News from 2002—the regulated on the State level and which should Spring, Summer, and Fall issues. We like to make the old be the concern of local jurisdictions. issues available on the website mainly for non-FLA Too frequently, when they receive a “wolf” members who happen to visit our site and want to either complaint, an officer drives 100 miles only to learn more about FLA or learn more about wolfdogs. discover that the animal has blue eyes, a fluffy In my last column, I began talking about website tail beautifully curled up over its back, and a statistics. Since the last issue of the newsletter, the friendly demeanor that screams: “Hi. You’ve number of visitors to the FLA website has fluctuated come to see me? Come let me lavish you with from 1150 per week to just over 2000. The following is a kisses! I’m a dog and I love meeting new breakdown of the statistics for the week of April 27, 2003: people!” Fish & Game officers spend a lot of time Total sessions served: 2059 and expense responding to complaints, which should properly be resolved by local animal Total hits made on server: 9464 control agencies. Consequently, they have Total page view hits: 2408 asked the Florida Lupine Association for help in attempting to eliminate the needless calls Total non page view hits : 7056 they have received on dogs. Total time spent by all sessions (min): 1455.5 For the past six months, your Board of Directors has been working closely with the Total time spent by all sessions (hr): 24.3 State to assist them in reevaluating their Total bandwidth (Mb): 97.1 regulatory policies regarding wolfdogs. We Average hits per session: 4.60 have provided them with our best knowledge and experience relating to judging wolf content Average page views per session: 1.17 in an attempt to eliminate the possibility of Average time spent per session (sec): 42.9 dogs and lower content wolfdogs being Average bandwidth usage per session (Kb): 47.2 misidentified and needlessly and/or mistakenly confiscated. This spring and summer, the senior, experienced leadership will retire from Fish & Game. Consequently, they have asked FLA to assist them in responding to “wolf” complaints. Initially, we could be accompanying officers on visits and may subsequently become the “First Responders” on possible “wolf” calls. Our role will then be to provide our evaluation of the animal in question so as to allow Fish & Game to decide whether an Of the total sessions during the week, we had 17 officer should respond, turn the complaint over visitors from Germany, ten from Canada, five from to local jurisdiction (Animal Control), or China, four from the Netherlands, three from the UK, determine that the complaint is insufficient to two from Sweden, and one each from Belgium, Brazil, warrant further investigation. FLA is proud of Finland, France, India, Israel, and Turkey. our excellent relationship with Fish & Game As always, I ask that you please take a few moments and we look forward to assisting them and dog to visit your FLA website today—at http://www. owners who may have been mistakenly floridalupine.org/index1.htm—and encourage your identified by a neighbor as having “wolves.” friends, family, and neighbors to do the same! Happy surfing! PAGE 4 FLORIDA LUPINE NEWS VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 From the Desk From the Desk of the Treasurer By Mayo Wetterberg of the Secretary by many animal control people. So we are doing By Barbara Speer-Skeoch I hope all of you are doing well, and enjoy- ing the “puppy season.” I admit that I am a little well even though we are still relatively small in jealous of those of you who have little fur-balls numbers.
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