Posted on 06/24/2017 6:14:38 AM PDT by marktwain
One of the distinguishing hallmarks of North American wolves, especially Canadian Greys, is that while, yes, they have to eat (!), they also kill for fun. If something is there to kill, whether they are hungry or not, they’ll kill it if they think they can.
My brother-in-law is a rancher in western Wyoming and has seen this behavior more times than he cares to think about. He occasionally has real problems with them in regards to his herds.
For my money, I think I’ll take the opinion of someone who knows what he’s talking about.
CA....
There was a FReeper whose name I cannot recall, who posted images of just that. From the air, what the wolves had done to a herd of elk was even more astonishing as it happened in a large snow covered meadow.
Better still, stake out the virtue-signalling, nature loving liberals for the bears, wolves and coyotes. So they can experience the nature they love so much up close and personal.
Wolves multiply quickly.
Twelve were re-introduced to Yellowstone. Ten years later, the population had grown to 1,500.
That’s a harmless lone wolf
If you’ve ever seen a pack of wolves take down an elk, as big as they are, you’ll know it’ not a pretty sight.
CA....
We got along fine without wolves. They should never have been reintroduced. It’s part of the ecoterrorist Rewilding plan to stack n pack us into cities.
Two wolves came into my front yard at 11 pm 5 years ago. They had smelled the raccoon food I had put out on the tree. I went outside with my floodlight and there they were, only 2 yards away from me. They just stood there growling at me, big red eyes at my waist level while the raccoons were chattering noisily right next to them.
I beat a retreat into the house in a hurry. Usually the wolves will not attack here near houses, but the coydogs will because the coydogs are in a pack chasing the deer and the wolves are looking for food that is already left outside for pets. The coydogs will eat cats but the wolves usually don`t here. Last newspaper report of a wolf killing someone here in the mountains was in 1930`s during the CCC camp expansion here in the higher mountains when a CCC supervisor was found apparently “eaten by wolves.” The coydogs here will flee at the sound of a gun but a wolf won`t. They are used to fireworks going off here and deer hunters ... Sometimes the wolves are white in summertime. Last white one I saw was in 1957 on my farm in July. One time in the mountains we were camping in a leanto with a huge fire in front of it, a wolf came close and jumped right over the fire and over our heads [he jumped at least 10 feet high’]. He was gray but his tummy was all white. They ain`t scared of fire neither. We had fired 44`s and 12 ga. shots earlier to scare it away but the wolf was not afraid of our gunfire at all. They are very intelligent animals. The wolves usually go after horses here, not deer. My sis and her neighbor have horse ranches and the wolves are constantly after the horses in the daytime, but not a coydog near the horses. Usually the coydogs are hiding in the woods and run out at night, but the wolves come out in broad daylight usually in singles, not in a pack, and at night in male/female pairs also; they don`t care coz they have no natural enemies; the wolves are so large.
This is a wolf proof school bus stop in Catron County, New Mexico.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Awwww, man.
I don’t want this to turn into a crevo thread. ;^)
If firearms had been originally developed in Africa, lions, cheetahs and leopards would be extinct and Africans would right now be supporting preservation of wolves, bear and wild boar in their former colonies in Europe and the Americas.
Fortunately for us, world history didn't turn out that way...
Want to really get this thread rockin'? Go to the "harmless pitbull" meme.
We got along fine without wolves. They should never have been reintroduced. Its part of the ecoterrorist Rewilding plan to stack n pack us into cities.
Because the camper was one of “those people” and not one of “them” (the academics) besides he probably deserved the mauling in their minds. Reference the responses to the death of the student Otto Warmbier, as foolish as he was.
What you got a glimpse of was pure unadulterated evil in a suit.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
The only predator remaining in New Jersey to keep our burgeoning deer population in check is the automobile.
Neither do I, but I also don't go to such places unarmed, whether wilderness or urban. In the wilderness, its nothing smaller than .44 magnum.
we endanger them when we think we can hug them or take selfies with them...
let the wild animals remain wild....
The Most Dangerous Prey.
Humans.
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