August D. Hoffman (they/them) is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an Animal Care Specialist at Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary located in Candy Kitchen, New Mexico. August’s research asks how animal sanctuaries pursue multispecies justice through attention and investment in interspecies care, autonomy, and embodied relations. Relatedly, they are concerned with how hegemonic narratives of animal domestication and canid ontology perpetuate settler-colonial biopolitics, and how the domestic-wild binary is an outgrowth of Western nature-culture logics.