Woman who identifies as a wolf reveals how day job lets her ‘hunt predators as her prey’

Naia identifies as a British Columbia Wolf (Picture: ITV)

A woman who identifies as a wolf as opened up about her day to day life as an online investigator.

Naia Ōkami, 27, has admitted her day job at a nonprofit as an investigator catching online predators and sex traffickers lets her channel her ‘spiritual’ side as a British Columbia Wolf.

Appearing on Monday’s episode of This Morning via video link from Seattle, Washington, she said: ‘I relate of what I do to being a wolf. One of thingsI do is with the nonprofit, I investigate trafficking and child predators.

‘I always make the joke that as a wolf I’n hunting my prey – the predators are my prey, which is kinda ironic!’

Naia also explained she doesn’t actually think she’s a wolf, but she finds it to be something more ‘spiritual and psychological’.

‘I don’t physically believe that I’m a wolf. It’s more a spiritual and psychological identification as a wolf,’ she added. ‘I’m completely aware I’m human right? I go to work every day, I don’t necessarily dress like this for work.A t the same token, spiritually, somehow I’m a wolf.’

She first started to identify as a wolf after having dreams at aged 10, where she would see herself as the animal.

Although she doesn’t always ‘wolf out’ in public – she only let out a quite howl on This Morning because her housemates were asleep – she does express herself.

However, she makes sure it’s appropriate for the environment she’s in.

Naia has explained her approach to life (Picture: ITV)

‘So, when I was in high school I was a lot more expressively than I am now. I would howl and stuff, just because that’s how I express myself. Nowadays it’s a little different,’ she said.

‘I am known as the wolf girl, I’ve been on a few different programmes. Due to that, I can be a little more open publicly… Obviously, if I’m at work or in the grocery store, I’m not gonna bark and howl at my cashier.’

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She again reiterated that she doesn’t actually believe she’s ‘literally’ a wolf.

‘Obviously I don’t,’ she said. ‘I have a very serious job, i catch predators, I do adult things, I pay my bills, I do my taxes. this is just a way I spiritually express myself.’

And while she knows many like-minded people, not everyone is happy with how open she is online and in media appearances.

‘A lot of people don’t like how openly expressive I am. A lot of people in that community treat this as something you keep to yourself and just talk about online with like-minded people.’

This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.

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