I am Wolf

I am Wolf! I am beautiful, social, hierarchal and carnivorous. I can love, parent, nurture, play, fight, hunt, track, defend and retreat. I am muscular, dominant, graceful, coordinated and noble. You can hear me howl, growl, whimper and... bark. I am lupine, canine, digitigrade and animal. I am loved, respected, mythologized, maligned, hunted, threatened and endangered.
I have lived on this earth for thousands of years. Now there are those who do not understand me and would like to see me and my kind exterminated - like vermin, they say. This will not happen - this cannot happen.
-Susan Williams PWNW