ALL THE PAGES ON THIS WEBSITE ARE DEDICATED TO THE AWESOME FOUR-LEGGED'S THAT HAVE GIVEN ME THE PRIVILIGE TO SHARE A LITTLE OF THEIR LIFE AND THEIR WORLD...
THE LAST GOODBYE...
OCTOBER 11, 2000
Tala you are gone now...
From this that we call life...
Part of me died with you...
My prayer is that you are free now, far from the people who do not understand you, and free from strife...
To be what you were created to be...
A beautiful wild thing, running free...
Looking at the world through those ageless amber eyes...
With your ancient wisdom, that man seems to so despise...
The night that you left us, and I heard your last mournful howl...
In my heart,'I knew', you would not be returning to us somehow...
When they told me of your passing...
I thought my heart would break
The tears fell hard and heavy, till my eyes did burn and sting...
Your death was like the final straw...I felt like I had lost everything...
Gone was my Tala, my beautiful white wolf...
The one who could light my face with a smile...
Playful and teasing, never aloof...
Gentle and innocent, trusting like a child...
Just like those before you...
Each and every one, had a l
esson to show me...
I will always believe, twas the Creator who brought each of you to show me something new...
A different way of looking at things, an alternate point of view...
Copyright Gale Camps 10-11-2000. All Rights Reserved.
DESTINY AND TALA - you taught me unselfishness in the highest degree...
ANGEL - my 'other' white baby, brought joy, and playfulness, and mischief, you were my prankster if there ever was one...
JUNEAU - sweet baby...you showed me brokeness, but bravery too...
BANDIDA AND ANOUHAC - you both gave me the precious gift of unconditional love, and humbleness...
MYSTIC GREY - from you dear one I learned some hard lessons, never judge a book by it's cover, and having faith in someone or something can bring amazing results...you were so beautiful Mystic...
And last, but CERTAINLY not least...MY BELOVED TOKLAT, the wise one, my gentleman...you were my first...Among all two legged's and four legged's there has never been a better friend...YOU were my soulmate, my confidante, my consolation...just one look in your eyes, and I knew you understood...Ah, Toklat, when you left this mortal world, part of me certainly went with you...we had many, many years together...I miss you still and guess I always will...
There have been 'eight' of 'your kind' in my life now...and eight being the number of completion...there will be no more...I have loved all of you, and miss you all, each of you brought SO MUCH to my life...but I have learned another lesson...it was selfish to want you...even though I did not go looking for you...you belong to no one, and you should be free, to be what the Creator created you to be...to roam the mountains and the valleys. And for the few of us who are lucky enough to ever share a part of our lives with you, and love you, we are blessed...if the two legged's lived and loved like you, this world would be quite a different place...I pray that sometime, before I leave this life here...I will be lucky enough some clear winter night...to hear again your lonely, haunting cry...one more time...
With Many Tears,
GIC 10-11-2000
***NOTE: The pictures above are not pictures of 'my' actual friends...those were unfortunately lost, due to some young people who decided to trash my storage house one night, they have apologized, but it does not bring them back...so I tried to find pictures that resembled each one the most...we lost 'Tala', our last wolf, three days after the birth of her first litter, true to her nature, she had made a den in the woods...when she finally did come out, I really do believe it was because she 'knew' she was dying...my son quickly put her into the car and raced to the vet with her, but there was nothing he could do for her...I could hear her howl all the way down this country road...she left a wonderful legacy in her pups...she had seven...and they are free wolves, not in captivity...Angel and Destiny are free now also, hopefully living there lives the way they were intended...Bandida died from falling asleep on top of a black widows web...Anouhac from the same thing...Juneau was hit by a car on our own property...he had fallen asleep behind the wheel of someone's truck and no one saw him there...Mystic, I think is perhaps the saddest, he had been ill, and we were keeping him in the house per the doctors orders, early one morning, my young daughter, who did not know any better and thought she was doing right, let him out the front door...my son was at his bus stop waiting for the bus, and mystic tried to go to him, but he was very weak and staggering...a teenager down the road shot him, and almost shot my son, out of fear...he would have never hurt anyone...and normally was kept out back on lots of acreage to run on...Toklat, lived many years to be an old man, he was killed along with ALL my other animals, except the horses, whom I am guessing fled the scene, by a group of people who shall remain nameless, but you know who you are, who had terrorized our little valley for several years, their dogs alone were responsible for the deaths of at least five of my neighbors cows, an older man and woman, to whom that was their livelihood, even though the sheriff was called in by each and every one of us on separate occasions, nothing was ever done to these people.........as for my babies, the wolves, each and every one of them left their mark on this world and they are never forgotten.........I would like to say something here, I am sorry this has been so long, the last thing I have to say, is ironically probably the most important, the things that I have described above DID happen, and I have MANY witnesses, which is why I believe NOW, that wild things should be free, the way that the creator meant for them to be....situations like the ones described above happen EVERYDAY, and when you mix the wolf and people, many times it has a very sad ending, mine certainly did........so now my main thrust is to educate the people I come across about the wolf and clear up alot of misunderstanding concerning what a wolf is REALLY like, and by that I mean their basic characteristics, I am sure in their natural environments they are very different in the respect that they are living the way nature intended to live........wild and free.......Please let's all help keep them protected and free, they were never meant to be house pets..........as much as I love them, this is what I believe.....someone told me long ago, 'that if you love someone or something set it free, if it comes back it is yours, if it doesn't if never was........', I sure didn't like that person very much when she told me that {smile}, but now some thirty years later, she is my best friend, my sister, and a whole lot more........but most of all her advice was right............
