Eastern Oregon wolf pack gets blame for nine attacks on sheep; 4 lambs found dead

Oregon Live ^ | 7/21/2021 | Katy Nesbitt

[mac_truck]

LA GRANDE — Nine confirmed attacks on lambs and ewes were attributed to the Ukiah Pack on private land eight miles south of Meacham — the first known report of this pack interacting with livestock.

According to an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife report, a sheep herder in the Kamela area of Mount Emily notified a ranch hand July 4 that sheep had scattered from around their bedding area near his trailer the previous evening.

That same morning, the report said, a member of the public found two dead ewes and one dead lamb on the same timbered, privately owned pasture and notified the ranch hand. An additional three dead lambs, one dead ewe and two injured lambs were discovered, one of which wasn’t found until July 7. All of the animals are believed to have been injured or killed on the evening of July 3.

Tracks of multiple wolves were found near several of the carcasses. GPS data located a radio-collared Ukiah wolf within 150 yards around the time of the attack where three of the sheep carcasses were found.

[dsrtsage]

Darn, the article is about actual sheep, not felchi fa

[riverrunner]

The wolves are actual to blame.

Not just to blame

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s a Wolf thing.

[dfwgator]

[monkeyshine]

It’s the fault of global warming that wolves behave like wolves.

[ryderann]

I live on Wolf Pit Rd. That’s how you keep your livestock safe from these predators.

[dainbramaged]

If they are hungry enough, wolves will kill and eat other wolves. I have seen direct evidence of it.

[IgnaciKat]

Fortunately they were “mostly peaceful”.

They are headed to Bend. There they will find fatter sheeples in the playgrounds and parks.

[Verginius Rufus]

Mary had a little lamb, some peas and mashed potatoes.

[Osage Orange]

What?

[PGR88]

I bet they started the Bootleg Wildfire too

Who wants to eat raw mutton?

[Twotone]

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[Pollard]

Eastern Oregon wolf pack gets blame for nine attacks on sheep; 4 lambs found dead

Sounds like they need a bigger pack of LGDs

[riverrunner]

The title reads like the pack just got blamed.

When the pack is actually to blame.

[tflabo]

Envirowhackos lobbied to introduce wolves into northwestern regions and ranchers/farmers pay the price for these predators taking their livestock.

[jmacusa]

There is something primordial in our fascination and fear of the wolf. Since mankind's earliest days this magnificent animal has always been a part of the human fear of natures apex predators. Indeed they have learned well over time that humans are a great source of food. Not we humans particularly but the animals we keep as live stock. Wolves are truly well adapted to being predators. Elusive, cunning, aggressive, ruthless and fearless they travel in packs and have a well defined and strict social structure in which there is an alpha male and an alpha female and it's they alone who breed. Indeed in all the animal world there is probably no more devoted parent more fiercely protective of it's young than the wolf. Humans will abandon their children, even kill them. Abortion is testament to that. Not the wolf. Wolves will fight to the death to protect their young.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Nothing wrong with that. But farmers should have prerogative to shoot.

Also might be a good time for American farmers to appreciate the versatile sheepdog...those who protect as well as herd.

Americans never truly used dogs for utility. Except hunters.

[Osage Orange]

Whatever...........

[Georgia Girl 2]

Here’s my shocked face. 😮