Whilst visiting Mrs M's Earthly Paradise earlier this month, we went to the Schloss Adler (not that one), had a 1970s lunch and saw some grey wolves. \u00a0These fine, though pitiable, creatures were fenced in around the castle and were fed for our entertainment. \u00a0As soon as a crowd gathered the wolves came down through the woods from the edge of the castle. \u00a0They milled about and waited. \u00a0When the bloke with the food arrived (offal, meat, shit and lord knows what else), they hardly moved. \u00a0Even when he started to speak inside their pen, they remained where they were. \u00a0It was only when he was about to end his over-long discourse on wolf culture that they moved, coming down onto the flat area in front of the fence. \u00a0Clearly they had heard it all before and knew full well when it would end, as shortly afterwards it did. \u00a0When their meal was dumped they pounced. \u00a0Feeding was over in a flash and they trotted off again.<\/p>\n
I wrote pitiable<\/em> above and so they were (along with the caged owls, hawks, vultures and so on). \u00a0And yet they had more of a cared-for air than many a free-born person living rough on the Bath's streets, and surely their health care was better than many millions of people in the United States (and many other countries). \u00a0Though I have been (rather bizarrely) complimented on my German pronunciation, my poor language skills couldn't cope with the 15 minute talk and so I don't know if this is what the food-man was commenting on. \u00a0Probably not ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whilst visiting Mrs M's Earthly Paradise earlier this month, we went to the Schloss Adler (not that one), had a 1970s lunch and saw some grey wolves. \u00a0These fine, though pitiable, creatures were fenced in around the castle and were...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}