3 Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild Book

Never Cry Wolf but this time it's a true story

In 1994, Helen Thayer, her husband Bill, and Charlie, an Inuit dog with wolf ancestry, set out to study wolves in the wild in the Canadian Yukon. They spent six summer months near a wolf family's den, and another couple of winter months among the wolves and polar bears of the Arctic.

Through observing and documenting the wolves' daily lives, they eventually felt an interspecies bond developing. The couple and their dog spent another few years checking on their wolf friends, and the book provides an "after" to their stories.



For those familiar with more popular stories, the first part (Summer) feels like Never Cry Wolf (which, if someone's still not aware, is a work of fiction), but in this case, they really spent these months among wild wolves. In contrast, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived among captive ones, as described in their Wolves at Our Door.



It's a bit repetitive at times, and the writing isn't spectacular, but boy, is the story amazing! I forgot about this book, but then it was recommended to me a couple of weeks ago and I finally ordered a copy. No regrets.

(Photographs by Helen Thayer)