Different Ways to Howl in Protest

One of our guests reported today that a friend of hers, with the OPP, related to her a wonderful G8 tale. On their reconnaisance and familiarization tour yesterday, inside the fenced Red Zone surrounding Deerhurst, our man-on-the-scene stepped off the path, and walked a short distance up a hill into the bush. His aim was to get a photograph, and the height of land offered a better vantage point. As he relates, "A tree tapped me on the shoulder, and suggested that I should leave." He was standing next to a camouflaged soldier, in what is called a Ghilly suit, and had not realized it. That's how good the camouflage is. He showed his OPP security badge, and the 'tree' suggested that he should still leave. "So I left the tree in the forest," he confessed, "and I left."

In Huntsville today, the Monk Who Walks for Peace arrived on his walk from Hokkaido, Japan to Huntsville for the G8. That's a message that needs to be heard, again and again.

As for the wolf cub at the top of this post? The photo was taken by David Harris, of Huntsville Online. According to Dave, there is a wolf den located not far from the edge of the field that has been selected for the protestors, as their "Open Speech" site. Now, we're not convinced that protestors are going to go to an empty field with a handful of journalists... It somehow seems a little romanticized and naive. We'd expect 'em to be a little more 'in yer face' and where they weren't really wanted to be in order to make an impression, but never mind...

This pup has been watching the bulldozers transform what was once a pretty good mousing ground for him and his siblings into a Protestors' Paradise. Let's hope the protestors appreciate the sacrifice this little guy and his wolf pack have made for the G8, and let's hope that their happy hunting ground is treated with respect. Although we would not be surprised to learn that alpha Wolf Momma has relocated the cubs by the time the noise levels diminish. We also expect that, if asked, the wolves would have a little bit of protest of their own about all of this...

Some of our guests heard our wolf pack last night. We wonder if any of them are sitting under the night sky, howling happily, right beside a soldier masquerading as a tree...