I Left Something for the Forest… It Didn’t Stay

Wilkołaak

I Left Something for the Forest… It Didn’t Stay  Each day I brush my dogs in the same quiet place. Their fur is not waste — it is offering.  I leave it where the small ones travel. Soon there are squirrel tracks. Then birds. Then fewer strands upon the ground.  When I returned the next morning, all of it was gone.  In the old way, nothing is discarded. What comes from the animal returns to the land. What is given is taken, and what is taken is woven into another life.  The forest remembers every gift.  #Wilkołaak #FolkRealms #AncestralLiving #ForestWays #LivingWithTheLand #OldPaths #WildernessLore #DogsOfTheNorth

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00:00Hey, this is Ilkayak from Barefoot Bushcraft, and every day I come out to this spot, and I brush my dogs, and of course I've got huskies.

00:08So there's a lot of fur that comes off huskies, a couple of brush strokes, tons and tons of fur.

00:14So every day, I figure, you know, there's nothing to do, it's just hair, I just throw it on the side like that, and on to the next dog.

00:22One day, I came out here, and I noticed all that hair was gone, it was all gone.

00:30And then when we had a little snowfall, like we're having now, I saw on the ground were squirrel tracks.

00:37So the squirrels were coming at night, and they were taking all of the dog fur for their nests.

00:42So now, just to be a friend of the forest, I make sure that every day, I brush my dogs, and I leave all that fur here.

00:51So there's the fur I took off the dogs today, and some little squirrel tracks there that came to take this.

00:58So I'll come back tomorrow, and I'll show you, is the fur gone, and did something take it for their nest?

01:05Alright, so this is the next day.

01:08Let's see.

01:09Look at that, all that hair is gone!

01:12So we're out there helping our forest friends, getting her to scrap, brushing my dogs.

01:18Yeah, that's so cool.

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