reintroducing wolves will inevitably lead to also reintroducing the killing of women and children by wolves as happened historically. Why do you think we killed them off in the first place?
http://www.glasgowzoo.co.uk/articles/carnivores/histwolvesscot.php The wolf killed in Morayshire in 1743 had apparently killed two children, but before the ruling Laird, of MacIntosh could arrange a hunting party for it, his appointed stalker MacQueen had done the job for him. "As I came through the sloch by east the hill there, I foregathered wi the beast. My long dog there turned him. I buckled wi him and kirkit him, and syne whuttled his craig, and brought awa his countenance for fear he might come alive again, for they are precarious creatures!" [10].
Macqueen of Pall-a-chrocain died in 1797. A man great stature and of corresoinding strength, Macquenn kept the best deer-hounds in the country. One day, in the winter of 1743, he received a message from the chief of clan Mackintosh, that a large wolf had on the preceding day killed two children, who, with their mothers, were crossing the hills from Calder. Macqueen was consequently invited by the chief to attend a "Tainchel", or gathering in the forest of Tarnaway, in Moray, and to bring with him his dogs. On the morning of the tryst, Mackintosh waited eagerly for Macqueen, but he only arrived at noon. As Mackintosh was about to complain of his delay, Macqueen raised his plaid, and drew from under his arm the bloody head of the aggressor. "I met the bit beastie," said Macqueen, "and this is his head.". Mackintosh expressed his admiration, and rewarded his vigorous kinsman with the lands of Sean-a-chan for "meat to his dogs." []
The Hunted and Hunter Die
The Rev. Dugald Campbell, minister of the Parish of Glassary writing the New Statistical Account for the Parish [9] tells of the last wolf of that area:
It is said that the wolf was, till a late period in the British history of that animal , an inhabitant of these houseless wilds, and that it was usual to fortify the roofs of the solitary huts and shealings against his depradations by wattlings of strong brushwood. It is told that the last of them which was seen in this parish followed the track of a female who was crossing the country from Lochawe to Lochfyneside. She was seen ascending the hill above Braveallaich with confidence, and, after passing through the moor, had almost obtained the road which leads to Inverary, at the mill of Craleckan, but was found close by it, on the Glassary side of the stream, a corpse. Her right arm was protected by an apron which she had rolled around it, and her hand grasped a knife which she had lodged deep in the heart of a wolf that lay dead beside her. It was supposed that when she discovered the animal on her track, she had fled in the hope of reaching the houses that were nigh at hand; but that being unable to escape, she had assumed the defensive in despair, and died terrified and exhuasted by the effort which left her nothing to fear.
Wolves Threaten Sheep
In "Scotland as it was and as it is " the Duke of Argyll cites that sheep were not allowed to graze by themselves among the Highland mountains in olden days. "The breed was a poor one with thin hairy wool, and considered so delicate that they were habitually folded even at night. Indeed, this was an absolute necessity, for the mountains were haunted by wolves, and among the Statutes of the Baronial Court of Glenurchy there is one expressly enjoining the regular manufacture of weapons for the destruction of this savage animal. Their ravages must have been formidable indeed when at a date so late as 1622 we find that a case came before the Baronial Court respecting three cows 'whilk were slain by the wolf'." [3]