The Farm at Sakari’s Place

10/31/2025

Happy “Howl”oween! 🎃 👻 🐺🐾♥️

10/31/2025

Happy “Howl”oween!

When matriarch Sasha howls, her pack joyfully joins in! 🎃 👻 🐺🐾♥️

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10/17/2025

Meet our pack Matriachs. Sasha (left) is our 13 year old matriarch of our outdoor pack. Storm (right) is our 16+ year old matriarch of our indoor pack.

What does this mean?

To be the matriarch of a wolf pack means being the dominant female—essentially, the leader or alpha female of the group. In wild wolf packs, this role carries both social authority and biological significance.

Here’s what it means in more detail:

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🐺 Leadership & Social Role
• The matriarch usually leads the pack along with the alpha male (often her mate).
• She has a strong influence over pack decisions, such as when to hunt, move, or rest.
• She enforces discipline and order, sometimes through displays of dominance, though not through constant aggression.

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🐾 Reproduction & Family Structure
• The matriarch is typically the only female in the pack who breeds.
• The rest of the pack usually consists of her mate, offspring, and sometimes older offspring or relatives who help raise the young.
• She often controls when and where pups are born, choosing den sites and caring for the young with the support of the pack.

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🧠 Wisdom & Experience
• Often, the matriarch is older and experienced, which gives her an edge in leading effectively.
• Her experience in navigating the environment, hunting, and raising pups is vital to the survival of the pack

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!

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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! 🐺🐾♥️