“Naughty girl and
Carmen: There is another thing you don’t know about me.. I am totally passionate about wolves!
Carmen: So that’s the naughtiness I use to do. I would pick up dogs and cats in the street and rescue them until I could get them forever homes. De la Fuentes was important for my generation. He was huge in Spain he taught my generation to respect Mother Nature. So for Christmas, when I was 10, I got a book written by him with a picture with wolves licking him. And I said mom, “I want to do this.” And she said, “Carmen, please go away.” And In 1998, I became the leader of a wolf pack and had the incredible chance and special opportunity of spending two days in a special wolf preserve in Madrid. Lick: How did that happen? Carmen: I always loved wolves. You know Yellowstone National Park, don’t you? Lick: Yes, of course. Carmen: Well, I was so passionate about wolves, I started to do research on the wolf reintroduction project. I wasn’t expecting to get married but I went there on my honeymoon. When my former husband asked me if I wanted to get married I asked him “Oh honey, will we be able to go on a honeymoon in Montana?” And he said, “Yes we will go anywhere you want to go.” Lick: Oh, I hope you didn’t marry him to go to Yellowstone. No way, hahaha!!
Lick: Oh my, wolves? Wow! Carmen: You asked me, if there was something special in my life. Back in Spain there was a biologist (De la Fuentes) who use to do TV shows about animals and about natural life. I loved his TV shows so much to the point where I had to be punished (because I was naughty). My mother and father took the TV out so I would not see his TV show. Lick: Oh, thats very mean. I don’t think you could have possibly done anything that bad. Carmen: I’ll tell you the naughty things I use to do. Lick: What? Carmen: I would let the stray dogs in my house to feed them. And once my mother came home from work early and caught me in the kitchen with a huge German Shepherd. I was feeding him all the food my mother had prepared for dinner. Lick: Oh my god, that’s not naughty, that’s sweet. Carmen: So, imagine you come to your kitchen and you are not going to be able to have dinner because the German shepherd has already had your dinner. So that’s the kind of naughty things I use to do. Lick: Well, everyone should do such naughty things. What a different world it would be.
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