The Farm at Sakari’s Place

09/14/2025

08/06/2025

Thank you all for your love, prayers and support!

Our Stormy girl is showing some improvement. She still is moving slow but she’s eating, drinking, etc. She’s able to do short walks with her boys Kona and Alex (her favoeite part of the day other than dinner time 😂) and is able to get herself in and out to go to the bathroom with little to no help.

Her s***k is infectious. Her stoicism is apparent. This tough little girl could be anywhere from 15-17 years old at this point. She’s one tough girl!

Good girl Stormy! Good girl!

08/04/2025

Ahhhh our Stormy girl is not feeling well. She started peeing blood earlier today. We were able to get her into the vet almost immediately.

She has an elevated liver enzyme and very high white blood cell count amoung other things of concern in her urine. Everything else looks great, however, we are watching her decline as the day goes on. She can barely walk. We are hoping it’s just due to her very eventful day.

For now we have her on a hefty antibiotic and pain meds. We shall see how she does over the next 24 hours. We wanted to put this out to all of our Storm lovers, that haven’t seen her in a while… you may want to take a ride.

We will keep you all posted. As always, thank you all for your unending love and support.

07/29/2025

Luna and Navi ♥️🐾🐺

An interesting occurrence that we witness here at the farm, is our older Wolfdogs mentoring younger members.

What does this mean?

In the case of Luna mentoring Navi, it refers to a natural, social behavior in which an older, more experienced Wolfdog (Luna, a senior pack member) guides, teaches, or influences a younger Wolfdog (Navi) as she has learned how to function within her pack.

I find this behavior extremely interesting, especially where they are domestic animals, even though they carry wolf DNA and intelligence.

Luna has taught Navi, social learning. She has learned by observation and imitation, especially during her developmental stages. Luna models behaviors such as territorial communication (e.g., scent marking, howling), and social cues. Navi has watched Luna and copied her to gain critical social skills.

Luna has also taught Navi the hierarchy or dominance structure of the pack. This includes lessons on submission, leadership, cooperation, and appropriate social behavior, which are essential for reducing conflict and maintaining order.

Lastly, Luna mentoring Navi has created a close social bond, like between a parent and offspring or siblings. Her mentoring of Navi has built trust and cooperation, essential for the pack’s cohesion.

Mentoring in a wolfdog pack is not formal, but it’s a vital part of how they transmit knowledge, shape social behavior, and maintain a strong, functioning group. It mirrors many aspects of learning and mentorship in highly social species, including humans.

05/05/2025

‼️ This is an amazing friend to the farm’s granddaughter. If you know anything please reach out to local police! This is near and dear to us. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Please share! ‼️

04/24/2025

This little nugget came to us 5 years ago!

What a beautiful heart… ❤️

What a sweet soul… 🐾

Spoiled to no end, Kona has grown into an amazing ambassador for the farm having been mentored by our original farm patriarch Ryker.

He is now following in his mentors footsteps, alerting when something is amiss, he watches over everyone here at the farm.

This little smarty pants, fun loving ways are a joy to witness. Also known as the “fur missile” this boy is jacked. He can jump large areas from a stand still. Proud of his farm, packs and family, Kona shows his pride and intelligence in all that he does.

With the addition of Alex to our indoor artificial pack, Kona is now mentoring Alex who has not had a lot of experience with other dogs and farm life. He intercedes on Storms behalf should Alex appear to becoming inappropriate. Alex is learning and doing extremely well with Kona’s leadership and help.

Here’s to many, many more years of joy, laughter and love Mr. Kona Bean. We all love you so much!

04/20/2025

Happy Easter from the cutest Wolfdogs eva! 🐰 🌺 🐇 🌻 🌷 🐣

04/17/2025

What makes a Wolfdog a Wolfdog?

For a dog to be considered a Wolfdog, they must have Wolf DNA in the 3 generations preceding them. Meaning parents, grandparents and great grandparents.

Most Wolfdogs are a mix of Grey Wolf with domestic dogs that have similar “wolf” features, such as Malamutes, Huskies and German Shepard’s.

Wolfdogs are generally categorized into three main levels of wolf content: Low (20-49%), Mid (50-80%), and High (85-98%). These percentages represent the approximate amount of wolf lineage in an individual wolfdog.

04/15/2025

Beautiful girl! 🐺🐾♥️

04/10/2025

We officially agree!

Dire wolves? Back from extinction? This news wasn't on our 2025 bingo card.

But what are the real facts surrounding this huge news story? Let's break it down a bit.

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas, Tex.–based biotechnology company announced on Monday that they had brought back the dire wolf from extinction with the birth of 3 dire wolf pups (Romulus, Remus, 5 months old, and Khaleesi, 2 months old). This is a bold announcement since these animals are essentially a genetically modified gray wolf. The scientists working on the project used a "morphological species concept," meaning that species are grouped by physical characteristics. Basically, the team's goal was not to create a dire wolf that shared 100% of the genes with its ancient ancestors, just an animal that looked similar to what we *think* a dire wolf might've looked like.

Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine made a comment in an article published by Scientific American stating, "'The pups don’t have any traits that would allow us to understand the dire wolf any better than we did yesterday,' Gill says, adding that understanding ice age organisms isn’t just a matter of knowing what they looked like or what they ate—but also about knowing what they did in those ancient ecosystems. 'Some of those things are coded genetically; some of those are cultural' and passed down from generation to generation."

To sum it all up? These animals are a romantic thought, especially for Game of Thrones fans, but they are not 100% dire wolves brought back from extinction. They are gray wolves with modified genes, some of those genes coming from dire wolf variants.

Our overall hope is that the company's goal of using this technology to help our world's biodiversity crisis and aid conservation efforts with animals such as the red wolf will be seen in the upcoming years.

While we think that the technology surrounding this work is absolutely impressive, we also can't help but wish that the funding, science and media attention used to "bring back" a species from extinction could be used to protect the already existing gray wolves in our country that are being ruthlessly targeted in anti-wolf legislation as we speak.

What are your thoughts?

02/28/2025

Luna love! 🐺🐾♥️. It’s like no other!

This stunning girl turned 5 this past week. Happy Birthday beautiful girl! 🎂🎈🥳✨

We have gratefully had Luna since she was a puppy. Boy has she come a long way. To know Luna is to witness all of natures beauty. Playful and sweet, she also plays the matriarchal role with our newest pup Navi and boy does she have her hands full. 😂

Navi is a high content pup that we took in at 16 weeks. When introduced to her new pack, Luna immediately jumped in to take on mentoring Navi. Just one of the many tasks she takes on. From defusing angst between bickering pups, to protecting her bonded partner Boris, to her fun loving, mischievous ways.

We are so proud of our immensely intelligent, sweet, sweet hearted girl. Love you so much sweet one! Here’s to many more years of your joy and love! ❤️

02/14/2025

Happy 5th Birthday to Kona our Valentine’s baby! 🎂🥳🎈♥️

Who could have known 5 years ago what an incredible pup, with the sweetest heart, you would turn out to be!

Valentine’s Day seems so approprsite to be his birthday! He shows love in all he does. So smart. So caring and protective of Storm. He’s an amazing mentor to Alex and a farm favorite during tours, as our lead ambassador.

Proud protector of his pack mates and property, you can be sure, if he’s alerting, something is amiss.

We love you so very much Kona Bean, you handsome devil! Here’s to many more years of cuddles, kisses, playtime and all around joy that you bring to all you encounter. ♥️🐺🐾