Wolf - A Sanctuary
Free Video

Wolf has compiled three video segments into a single DVD or VHS. We are using this approach to provide potential supporters with a more thorough understanding of our mission. The segments include a:
     5.5 minute overview of Wolf taped at the
         sanctuary,
     8.5 minute pilot that was made about Wolf for
         Animal Planet and a
     43 minute copy of the Texas Rescue (featuring
         Wolf), from 2003, that aired on the “Jeff
         Corwin Experience”.

If you have never been to the sanctuary or have trouble explaining Wolf to your friends, we would be happy to send you a copy. If you can afford to send a donation in the amount of $6.50 to cover the production cost and shipping, we would appreciate it -- if not, don’t worry about it. We are more concerned about making sure that everyone who wants to spread the message has the tools to do it with.

Please call the sanctuary for ordering information -
970-416-9531

Featured Residents
The 'Blackhawk Girls'

The Ashley and Jasmine are the oldest residents, currently at the sanctuary, at 16.5 years of age. They are litter mates who were born on April 21, 1988. They have been together their entire lives and have formed some very interesting habits.

Their story is similar to many of the wolves and wolf-dogs which are born into captivity. A breeder in the Black Hawk area of Colorado was fascinated with wolves, and tried to make a living working with them and trying to educate the public.

Circumstances eventually caused the individual to have to sell his property, making arrangements with the new owner allowing him to keep his wolf enclosure and his last three animals in that enclosure. Ashley, Jasmine, and another sister, whose name we never determined, were doing all right with this arrangement. As fate would have it, their owner slowly began to neglect the animals, according to neighbors. Those concerned neighbors became involved when the unnamed sister was found dead, purportedly of starvation. They began trekking food and water, in the winter, over a mile from the closest access road they could reach. As they kept up their arduous endeavor, they attempted to alert authorities to the plight of the remaining two animals.

Fate again entered the story. The new owner of the property defaulted on the mortgage, the mortgage company foreclosed and had a survey performed, which determined the enclosure was actually on U.S. Forest Service property. The mortgage company immediately petitioned the Forest Service to remove the animals and the enclosure.

Wolf was contacted by the Forest Service, in an effort to find a home for them if it became necessary to confiscate them from the current owner. Attempts were made to allow the owner to voluntarily place the animals at Wolf. However, as the time frame dragged on and the owner could not, or would not, accomplish the task, the Forest Service moved in and seized the animals. They were turned over to Wolf and began their new life in March of 1998.


Ashley and Jasmine share an enclosure at Wolf, and have adapted very well to their home. Ashley is the dominant animal, and volunteers joke that Ashley's job is to pin and dominate Jasmine. Jasmine’s job is to scream as if she is being dismembered. In actuality, both animals have flourished, and no injury has ever been inflicted by Ashley on Jasmine. Although very shy, both animals have bonded with several Wolf volunteers, and enjoy being given attention and treats.

As they have aged, Jasmine has become blind and slowed her movements around the enclosure. She appears to have a mental map that guides her around. From time to time she appears to get a little confused about where she is and then retraces her steps, locates a landmark on her mental map, which then allows her to continue where she wants to go. Ashley seems to understand this problem and has made her pseudo attacks on Jasmine less frequent.

Ashley continues to amaze everyone with her strength and endurance as she still races from one end of her enclosure to the other. As we watch her frolic we wish we had half the energy she exhibits, even though we are half as old, in human years, as her 115 years.