The Farm at Sakari’s Place

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! 🐺🐾♥️

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. ♥️🐺🐾

02/12/2025

In the spirit of celebrating Valentine’s Day and love, did you know that wolves are intensely social and devoted to family?

🐺 They are monogamous, meaning they choose one partner and remain with them for life.
🐺 Wolves in a pack are led by the breeding male and female, who are the only wolves that breed.
🐺 The breeding pair leads the pack of their offspring, which stay with them for about one to three years.
🐺 Wolves are social and devoted to family. They raise their young as a group, play together into old age, and care for injured companions.
🐺 When a wolf loses a pack mate, there is clear evidence that they suffer and mourn that loss.

As they say, “All you need is love!”

02/09/2025

A common question that we reveive, is what do we feed our Wolfdogs?

Below is a typical meal, that includes donated freezer burnt version (Thank you Rob Harrington!), carrots, brown rice with the following herbs, that are a part of their daily diet:

Turmeric Powder
Cats Claw Bark Powder
Echinacea Powder
Rosemary or Thyme
Dandelion Root Powder

This is all mixed in with Fromm kibble, as well as, hip and joint chews

A HUGE thank you to all who donate their freezer burnt meat and veggies!

02/05/2025

Little Miss Navi May says “I’m out” when we arrived at the vet yesterday. 😂

In all seriousness, she was due to be spayed. We had wanted her to mature before doing so. I’ve heard that by allowing her to mature before her spay, will help in multiple ways. Dogs/Wolfdogs spayed/neutered too early may have the following issues down the road:

1 - Orthopedic problems
2 - Cancers
3 - Behavioral problems
4 - Delayed physical and emotional development
5 - In females, urinary incontinence
6 - Infectious diseases
7 - Adverse reactions to vaccines
8 - Noise phobias

All and all our little, sweet, cutie pie is doing extremely well! She was a bit confused and traumatized yesterday mostly due to her being out of her comfort zone and the anesthesia. Today she wakes alert and engaging. She’s a good eater so that is very helpful with meds. She is now resting comfortably. Good girl!!! 🐺🐾♥️

A huge shout out to Henniker Veterinary Hospital and Dr. Allia Connolly who went far above and beyond to accommodate Navi’s unique fears and needs.

02/01/2025

As we look at frigid cold again this evening and Groundhog Day tomorrow, I’m wondering what you all think Punxsutawney Phil is going to do tomorrow.

Will he see his shadow? If I had to guess from what I’m seeing, I’m going to guess an early Spring. What do you all think?