Posted on 08/02/2007 8:51:10 AM PDT by george76
A kayaker's life-and-death struggle with a hungry wolf on B.C.'s remote north coast... has prompted a conservation officer to warn against taking wolf encounters too lightly.
"This was a predatory wolf attack," conservation officer James Zucchelli confirmed in an interview from his Bella Coola Valley office. "That fellow was perceived as a prey source. He was attacked with intent to eat. The wolf saw him and took off running at him."
the attack reinforces the fact that wolves are predators and capable of attacking humans under certain circumstances...
The fit, 31-year-old Port Moody kayaker was setting up his tent on a beach at 4 p.m. in the Anderson Islands off northwest Aristazabal Island, a straight-line distance of about 125 km north of Bella Bella, when an old female wolf emerged from the bushes and attacked, ...
The kayaker fought with the wolf for a few long minutes, suffering bites to his leg and hands as he attempted to pry its jaws apart and put it in a headlock.
He eventually dragged himself and the wolf several metres down the beach to his kayak, removed a 10-cm knife from his life jacket, and repeatedly stabbed the animal.
"He proceeds to start filling this thing with holes in the neck and chest area," Zucchelli said. "The wolf gives up, gurgling and bleeding, and wanders off into the trees."
Unable to paddle due to his hand injuries, the kayaker called for help on his marine radio.
A man was severely bitten by a wolf in 2000 while sleeping outdoors in his sleeping bag at Vargas Island in Clayoquot Sound. He received more than 50 stitches to his scalp.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Yah, it’s definitely no joy on the handguns. But long guns were still OK then. I ~think~ that’s still the case.
Even in a bar you might get attacked by a mink or a barracuda.
Dogs as we know them, are just tame wolves.
Or a ‘cougar...’
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There must European, Russian...wolf attack reports too ?
As University of Wyoming geography professor James Thompson (1993:165) recently noted, “wolf recovery is [only] a ‘stalking horse’ for the larger issue of land use change.” Even environmentalists have admitted that “on the deepest level the issue of…wolf recovery is not about wolves. [Instead] it is about control of the west” (Askins 1993:5).
Simply put, environmentalists are using wolf recovery and the Endangered Species Act to run ranchers out of the country and to thwart multiple use of public lands. It is also a way for animal-rights and antihunting groups to ban all hunting and use of wildlife...
http://www.mtmultipleuse.org/ENDANGERED/wolfreport.htm#HIDDEN
> Dogs as we know them, are just tame wolves.
(grin!) My German Shepherd keeps reminding me of that fact at every opportunity she gets!
This is a dog that understands spoken English — not just the odd command, but entire sentences and ideas. She can tell exactly what I’m thinking when I walk into the room, and she tries hard to make speech-noises and expects to be understood (that part is really, really funny to watch!)
Purely by watching, she has figured out how to open doors using the doorknob (that’s sometimes a problem), and she knows approximately what time it is: just like an alarm clock.
Unlike cats dogs are not stupid. The more time you spend with them the smarter they get. I feel convinced that they think humans are funny-looking dogs with no snout and no tail who don’t know how to run fast on four legs.
I love Shepards.
Though I feel that dogs (and wolves) are smater than us. They, after all have adopted their life style for a free ride. Easy food and love. All they have to do is way their tails and they are home free.
I have two pure wolves that I really love and the love is returned ten fold.
I have two house puppies - dwarf yorkies crossed with mini rat terriers that are also such a joy. Combined the two weigh nine pounds.
The dogs and wolves love each other and recognize each other as part of the pack.
Life is good.
Starving wolf! Sheesh!
It’s been years since I’ve been followed by wolves. Things must be getting tough in the bush. In June of this year one of my neighbours had a very trying tussle with a large black bear - got scratched and bruised, but un-chomped upon.
I just heard on the radio about a cougar attack near Clinton. There’ve been quite a few in the last couple of years in B.C. I never used to see the cats at night - now they’re creeping closer to civilization.
When I was a lad, animals had respect for people. Not only have they lost their fear of people - now they just think we’re for lunch!
LOL. I think their respect meter is attached to their hunger meter.
lol
Dogs as we know them, are just tame wolves.
Was that the guy on here last year that killed a black bear with a knife after it attacked his dog? He even had pictures.
wolf ping
This guy reminds me of Timmy Treadwell... AKA timmy snackwell. No, the guy who killed that bear is a Freeper.
Timmy Treadwell and his friend were killed and eaten by bears.
You maybe thinking of FReeper : kanawa.
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yikes.
First fatal wolf attack recorded in North America?
Conservationists have long assuaged the public’s fear of wolves by saying that there have been no documented instances of a healthy wild wolf killing a human being in North America. Until now, that is.
On Nov. 8, ( 2005 ? ) a search party found the partially consumed body of 22-year-old Kenton Joel Carnegie in the woods of northern Saskatchewan. Carnegie had gone for a walk and didn’t return to the surveyors camp where he was working.
Paul Paquet, a University of Calgary ecologist who investigated the case...
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=16084
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