Buck adapting to the trails was a crucial thing he had to learn. He also learned that leadership was important when he became leader after killing Spitz. They were traveling for 3 days and in total has traveled 110 miles and Buck feets couldn’t take it anymore because his feet had soften throughout the generations and he would lay because he was in agony and couldn’t eat as well. But Perrault made him four little moccasins for his feet and wouldn’t travel unless he had them on. “when Francois forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them. later his feet grew hard to the trail, and the worn-out footgear was thrown away,” (London Chapter 3). This shows that Buck was