Some more details:
The first time in the house, even sick as she was, Cucumber acted as you would expect a wolf to – wild, restless, destructive, and definitely not house-broken. Even three months in the house did not modify her behavior. Then she went out for a year, but was able to see a new malamute puppy move in. Not only a puppy but a female puppy! A queen supplanted. Daily she saw it go in and out and in and out. She was not pleased. We knew this by her unsubtle displays of rage.
When we brought her in again after her second operation we couldn’t put our finger on it but just had the feeling that she felt: At last! True it was just a feeling and could have been our imagination, but her behavior was totally different. She 
was calmer – positively angelic from a wolf point of view, not tearing everything to shreds, not jumping up on everything that had a surface…but most of all she house-broke herself! Even though she had diarrhea AND is 9 years old! She would ask us to let her out and she tried really hard to hold it in…
She howls the wolf abandonment howl when we put her out for the day for sun and exercise and company. She ignores available wolfly company, clearly preferring the house dogs (the male ones), snubbing other wolves – perhaps because they have higher perceived status being in the house? She rushes in at warp speed when we bring her in at night. She asks for affection and bonding with great verve and frequency and has a pleased look much of the time, especially when she steals Talkeetna’s(the malamute puppy’s) toys if we forget to put them away. The light in her eyes is constant and she often is wearing a big wolf smile. To be continued.
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Nomad Lives by Jennifer Sauer
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