My wife recently left the boy and I alone for a week while she went off to live it up, having radiation treatment, to finish kicking cancer’s ass.

A whole week!

At first, the two of us sort of sat there staring at each other, wondering, what the!

Because I definitely am not Mommy, my boobs have no milk. I was not even supposed to be home until dark-thirty anyway. What the heck was the Big Hairy doing in his domain, during bright of the day, on a weekday?

I was not sure what to do for eight hours without a computer screen in my face. I kept wandering around the house looking to see if anyone needed me to put a chart together or maybe needed something written. The boy just crawled around after me, as if I was going to steal one of his toys or something!

The kid just would not be an adult about things. I found out the hard way that he hates hot wings. No way did he want to sit through the movie I took him to, and forget about sleeping with no boobies around to aid the process,(something that we both are suffering through).

Then I realized the problem. The natural flow of our pack had been interrupted.

So I changed the diaper and turned to TV. Sure enough, Animal Planet’s “Living with the Wolfman,” came to the rescue.

The show debuts at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 21. It features the further adventures of British wolf expert Shaun Ellis. You might remember him from the fascinating documentary “Living with Wolves.” That’s what he does, he lives with wolves at the Combe Martin Wildlife Park.

What better way to learn how to cope with the difficulties of a pack turned upside down than from a wolf expert who lives the pack life, with real wolves?

It is all too primal. The guy really does try to live as much like a wolf as possible, including pretty much an all-meat diet (mostly internal organs to establish his rank in the pack), probably bathes by licking himself clean, uses no deodorants, maybe gets a flea dip every now and then and a dainty new girlfriend to share in the wolfness.

That’s right, the Wolfman has found a girlfriend, and now he wants to introduce her into the pack. I wonder if the other wolves will call her Yoko.

She is Helen Jeffs, and she wants to be not only his main squeeze, but sort of his wolf apprentice as well. Learning from the master is all well and good, but when you see Jeffs chew up some raw liver and kidney and regurgitate it into the mouths of wolf pups, perhaps a visit to eHarmony.com is in order.

Then he tells her she’s too fat to be let into the pack and puts her on a treadmill (girls love that, by the way).

All in all, “Living with the Wolfman,” is shaping up to be a fascinating show and a hit for Animal Planet.

Now, did watching it fix the separation pain of having no mommy for a week? No, not really. But it sure was fun to sit around in our skivvies and howl like a couple of fools.