02-06-2011, 12:00 AM
I was working for a telephone company many years ago. I was in the desert in a very rural area close to the Tonto national forest in Arizona. I was sitting on a box fixing wires when I watched a large grey wolf approach me. I was not afraid but checked its eyes for madness or disease. Its eyes were calm. It was a she-wolf. She came behind me and smelled me. I sat still and waited. Part of me wondered if I was going to get bit. I slowly turned and reached slowly to her with a opened hand. She smelled my hand and looked at me in a wild powerful way ...she was wild, I was a human doing something strange. We shared something... then...she walked away a bit and watched me. I decided to just sit there and pretend I wasn't worried about her. She circled and came back behind me. I put my hand behind my back without turning palm up. I soon felt her breathe on my palm then a soft soft lick. The shewolf then ran about 30 feet and stopped and looked at me. A fellow worker I knew who was not a good man drove up in a truck and got out of his truck saying "That wolf was right behind you you could have been attacked!" or something to that effect. He was quite concerned where I was very detached. I wasnt afraid I told him. We both looked at her and she ran away, not fast but quick, not afraid.I can still feel that lick..