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I’ve never felt so confused + torn- caught up in the thrill of a hunt w/brilliantly cunning strategy + horrified at the killing of the wolves. Why must we be so opposed? How can they so respect the wolves even tying their own soul + identity to them + yet so glory in killing them?
Then that bit at the end abt dogs whom nomadic Mongols love + farmer Han despise, but I can’t imagine a farm in the US w/o farm dogs
— Dec 06, 2025 02:10AM
Then that bit at the end abt dogs whom nomadic Mongols love + farmer Han despise, but I can’t imagine a farm in the US w/o farm dogs
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Trice
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I recog the convos abt culture + comparisons btwn, being incomers
Hoping for the wolf cub but apprehensive abt his end. I don’t know how they cld hold onto him once he reaches adulthd + I don’t think they cld get away w/releasing him w/o getting into major trouble w/authorities
Not surprised Dorji’s cub ended the way it did when D seemd to go into it w/even less thot - unsup’d play w/child >injury >kill pup
— 22 hours, 25 min ago
Hoping for the wolf cub but apprehensive abt his end. I don’t know how they cld hold onto him once he reaches adulthd + I don’t think they cld get away w/releasing him w/o getting into major trouble w/authorities
Not surprised Dorji’s cub ended the way it did when D seemd to go into it w/even less thot - unsup’d play w/child >injury >kill pup
Trice
is on page 293 of 526
18 + 19 might be my 2 favorite chapters
Tho they’re still peppered w/the overseer’s determination not to listen to any pleas, cultural or environmental, they also hold the hearts of 2 students + connection w/wild creatures, Chen + his wolf cub, independent + wild but still connected, Yang, the swans + the overwhelming beauty of an untouched valley. Sadness; swans in their beauty always seem to come with sadness
— Dec 22, 2025 05:10AM
Tho they’re still peppered w/the overseer’s determination not to listen to any pleas, cultural or environmental, they also hold the hearts of 2 students + connection w/wild creatures, Chen + his wolf cub, independent + wild but still connected, Yang, the swans + the overwhelming beauty of an untouched valley. Sadness; swans in their beauty always seem to come with sadness
Trice
is on page 258 of 526
Farming vs herding vs wild life
There are a lot of discussions of the best way to administrate the land and the ppl, and defending old practices for the sake of the ecosystemand the ecosystem for the sake of the herds and for the future
— Dec 17, 2025 12:33AM
There are a lot of discussions of the best way to administrate the land and the ppl, and defending old practices for the sake of the ecosystemand the ecosystem for the sake of the herds and for the future
Trice
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Relief and sadness
So they let the wolf go…after they had maimed it w/a rifle shot. Respect remembered too late…or one kind of too late
— Dec 10, 2025 08:23AM
So they let the wolf go…after they had maimed it w/a rifle shot. Respect remembered too late…or one kind of too late
Trice
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I’m trying to trust the author as the one w/on the ground experience, but the descriptions of the behavior of a wolf cub that young don’t match anything I’ve seen elsewhere - it doesn’t make sense to me
In another direction, I find it interesting that they kept the new lambs separate from the ewes except for 2 feeding times, + had to actively pair them up for feeding instd of leaving them w/the grazing ewes
— Dec 10, 2025 03:33AM
In another direction, I find it interesting that they kept the new lambs separate from the ewes except for 2 feeding times, + had to actively pair them up for feeding instd of leaving them w/the grazing ewes
Trice
is on page 179 of 526
“Knowing he was about to participate in a contest acted out on the primitive grassland between a pair of wolf kings, Chen was exhilarated.”
Thinking of humans as wolves themselves (papa Bilgee the 2nd wolf king) really flips the narrative in my mind. You can say all you want that humans are literally animals but I find it difficult to get past barrier in my mind that still classifies us as different, separate
— Dec 06, 2025 01:25AM
Thinking of humans as wolves themselves (papa Bilgee the 2nd wolf king) really flips the narrative in my mind. You can say all you want that humans are literally animals but I find it difficult to get past barrier in my mind that still classifies us as different, separate
Trice
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Staking out wolf dens to try to get cubs and how dare the mother wolves fight or outsmart them…repeatedly. The cunning wolf.
— Dec 06, 2025 12:36AM
Trice
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Some really awful stories of terrible things they do to the wolves. A bit relieving that someone felt sad over a young wolf killed to take her pups
— Dec 05, 2025 11:45PM
