Wild Ideas Worth Living · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Kit DesLauriers shares her experience of raising a wolf named Issa, which she received when she was 21. She describes the intense bond and the challenges of raising a wild animal, including a difficult incident where she had to assert dominance.
“And I was living in the mountains and it was amazing.”
“So I was out with him every morning and every evening. The wolf.”
“Um, you're trained to give it a bone with meat on it and then take it away before it rips your hand off.”
“It was, and it hurt, and I didn't think I could do it. And I cried and I walked away defeated and then I went back and I found deeper places in myself that I could go to find the resolve and the power and be removed from the thought and,”