I feel sorry that he lost his dogs but, he and his dogs were hunting and so were the wolves.
Yeah, and then he goes after a wolf with a stick, gets jumped and gets his dog (who he was ostensibly "saving") killed to save himself. He was having all kinds of fun lording it over whatever the heck his dogs wanted to chase down, and then gets upset during the wake-up call. What a maroon.
That's what I was thinking as I read the article: This guy was in the wild, bear hunting with his dogs (he may call it "training," but setting out to deliberately chase bears into trees is a form of hunting), when a bigger animal with a greater natural right to that paricular environment decided to turn the tables and hunt the dogs. I feel bad for his loss, but the animal kingdom is a dog-eat-dog world. (BTW, where I live in upstate NY, I have the right to shoot any dog chasing deer, moose, bear or any other big game.)
I gotta say, this story is crap! I don't beleive it!
Sure, the wolves were hunting too, but the problem here is this type of wolf doesn't belong in this ecosystem- the wolf that was native to Idaho didn't behave this way. These Canadian Gray Wolves were INtroduced, not RE introduced. This is the problem: the animal is being exploited by the fools who brought them here!