Saga: Hanging With the Yearlings

We’re making good progress with the Saga!* Lately we’ve been working on the yearlings -- the pups who survived their first year of life and now are helping raise the new pups of the year (whenever they’re not playing or getting distracted). Even at 13-15 months of age, they’re still very puppyish, even though they’re physically approaching adult-wolf size. I know there are a lot of questions about yearlings, so let’s answer a few of them: 1) Once you’ve got some yearlings in your pack, how do you tell them what to do? The short answer is: you don’t. Just as with your mate, you can go up to any of them and whine to invite them to hunt -- but they have minds, preferences, and personalities of their own. Typically, females are more likely to stay at the homesite and males are more likely to go hunting -- though certainly an individual can have a different preference. Packmates are more likely to stick with their best friend (using the new fondness feature be