He’s even single-tracking like a wolf, putting one foot directly in front of the other instead of staying to the sides. I think that was definitely their intention.

okay i’m reblogging this 90% for shallow, shallow reasons

but for the other 10%: with wolves (and coyotes and foxes, apparently), single tracking means the rear paws step into the same spots the front paws just vacated, so “real” single tracking depends on having four feet. BUT, the “putting one foot in front of the other, and not to the side” thing is def part of that (in wolves it’s bc their chests are very narrow, esp compared to domestic dogs, who don’t single track).

and now that i’m thinking about it, i quite like the idea that it’s a habit he’s picked up and slips into from time to time, either from having spent time running around in wolf form, and/or bc he’s spent much of his life in environments that made single tracking favourable, i. e. ones with no wide paths, no paths at all, or just generally ones where you have to really watch where you put your feet.