No if all the cattle were in sync and came charging the wolves at the same time there would be no problem.
My daughter and SIL live in Idaho. But they don’t farm. She takes really long walks in the woods with her dogs and they’ve seen wolf tracks and bear tracks. The dogs will scare off wolves—they are almost as large and seriously protective—but having bears in the area is really serious. And cougars.
Is it possible to relocate wolves to non-farming areas? Or for farmers to have large dogs that would chase them away?
In Mendocino, where I vacationed for several months, neighbors would call everyone if they saw a cougar or fresh cougar tracks. We’d keep our small animals inside so there was nothing cougars could eat and they moved on.
The Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to the Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a “more humane” solution to this issue. What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again. This was ACTUALLY proposed by the Sierra Club and by the U.S. Forest Service. All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes. Finally an old fellow wearing a big cowboy hat in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said; “Son, I don’t think you understand our problem here... these coyotes ain’t f’in’ our sheep... they’re eatin’ ‘em!” The meeting never really got back to order. . .
The dang government re-introduced wolves! What did they think would happen?
Adopt some donkeys. Turn them loose among the cattle.
The BLM down here often go out and round up Donkeys and people can adopt them.
Farmers up were I come from did just that and they havent lost one cow/calf since. Before, they were losing up to 30 head a year from Wolves. The wolves will hang around if they can grab a cow and will send the pups in to learn how to kill. Wolves will kill for the fun of it.
Donkeys will kill coyotes and wolves if they get hold of them.
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I support reintroducing wolves to downtown Los Angeles, specifically around City Hall.
The wolves can help keep the homeless population there culled, and any politicians dumb enough to walk nearby.