Article: Animal magnetism: Willow Earth Wolfbird of Ruscombmanor Township feels a special connection to creatures such as horses and birds. From an early age she has had the gift of being able to sense a certain aura of strangers with an assist from animals.

Byline: Bruce R. Posten

Jun. 29--IN A PASTURE at the 55-acre Hobby Horse Ranch in Ruscombmanor Township, longhaired, dark-eyed Willow Earth Wolfbird stood amid some of her 30 four-legged friends -- appaloosas, paints, palominos, a mustang, quarter horses, Andalusians and even a mule -- as she explained her special affinity for animals.

Alternately in her hand or on her shoulder, a white dove named Peep or Wankan, which means "sacred," seemed bemused but content in her high human roost, as compared to a more frenetic Mohica, a white American Eskimo dog, running back and forth, barking at horses, nipping at blades of grass and finally sniffing a fresh pile ...

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