Cassidy joined the Big Pack in the Sky on December 3rd, 2025.

She was assisted at 10 years old due to mobility concerns resulting from Metabolic Bone Disease.

Cassidy was born on March 18th, 2015 and arrived at Wild Spirit from Indigo Mountain Nature Center on March 12th, 2025.

In July of 2024, tragic news struck the wolf and wolfdog world when a beloved member of the community, Sue Cranston, passed away. Not only was Sue a tremendous advocate for these animals, she was also the Founder and Executive Director of Indigo Mountain Nature Center, a non-profit sanctuary located in Lake George, Colorado. With her passing, Indigo Mountain was on the cusp of shutting down, which would have left their 25 canid rescues without a home. With the over-saturation of wolfdogs already in sanctuaries (and more requiring placement each day), there was nowhere for these animals to go.

Losing a sanctuary is much like losing a life boat on a sinking ship, which is why Wild Spirit stepped up to offer a solution. Our first idea was to save the sanctuary itself; to purchase the Indigo Mountain property and in doing so, preserve the home of the 25 wolfdogs. The objective was to dissolve the Colorado sanctuary into our own, allowing Wild Spirit to operate in two neighboring states. This was called our “Save Indigo Mountain Campaign,” which saw an unprecedented amount of support from our incredible followers, as well as celebrities such as Kate Linder, Diane Warren, Bo Derek and many others. Unfortunately, the total up-front cost of this project (which included the purchase of the property itself, facility upgrades needed to acquire USDA licensing, and vet care for each rescue) would be approximately $1,500,000–a steep hurdle to save their lives. Regretfully, we were unable to amass the fund necessary to purchase the property before the owner’s deadline, and the land was sold in February of 2025.

Luckily for the residents of Indigo Mountain, Wild Spirit does not know the meaning of defeat. Though they lost their home, we were adamant to save their lives. One life boat was now officially gone, so we instead committed ourselves to building a new one! This began an even greater task of expanding Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and creating 18 new enclosures to bring the animals here. We knew it would not be an easy endeavor. In fact, we were fully aware it would be far more difficult than simply purchasing the Indigo Mountain property, due to the limited space and resources here at Wild Spirit. Additionally, we had a new deadline of only 3 months to make it all happen; failure to do so would mean the 25 wolfdogs at Indigo Mountain would lose their homes, and their lives. Thus, the “Save Indigo Mountain Campaign” became our “Unite the Packs Campaign.“

The first step was securing enough money to make this transition possible, which we estimated to be a grand total of $171,729.44. Our donors, once again, proved their commitment to these animals by allowing us to reallocate a portion of our funds from the previous campaign to this new purpose, immediately securing $148,450.76 across 806 donations. Those who could not support us financially instead volunteered their time for enclosure construction, or donated enclosure materials (shout out to our good friend Jesse at Arkansas Wolf & Wildlife Center). All that was left was to construct the enclosures, and get the animals off property in time . . .

On March 12th, 2025, we officially rescued our first 12 animals from IMNC: Chappa, Tioga, Cassidy, Tahoe,Jaeger, Sonoma, Tippy, Blizzard, Stella, Summit Frisco and Gray Cloud! With such a large volume of animals to transport and vet, we needed to do multiple trips.

The remaining 10 IMNC critters were brought home on April 9th, 2025, which included: Milo, Sundance, Aspen, Sable, Sarah, Sophie, Oakley, Dakota, Gunner and Skysong.

This is, by far, the largest rescue that Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary has ever conducted, and we cannot possibly express our endless gratitude to every human who helped make this possible. Thank you.

Finally, in order to share the full stories of our Indigo Mountain rescues, we’ve included their original bios below:
Cassidy came to us in 2015 after her three sisters, Calamity, Sundance and Oakley were surrendered to an animal shelter alongside their parents. She has gone through her share of health issues, including a metabolic bone disorder that hampered her growth and disfigured her front legs. She also went through an auto-immune disease that caused the retina in both eyes to detach and consequently she lost her eyesight. Today, she gets around her habitat quite well and we are surprised daily as we watch her chase birds and play with her toys.