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Wolf pups 'adopted' by Idaho high schoolers killed by federal agents
BBC ^ | 12 Oct 2021 | BBC

Posted on 10/13/2021 12:41:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Conservation groups have expressed outrage after the US Department of Agriculture revealed it killed eight young wolves in an Idaho forest.

The Timberline wolf pack - unofficially "adopted" by students at Boise's Timberline High School over the past 18 years - appears to have been among the targets. Their den, on public lands in Boise National Forest, was found empty this spring.

An official from the Agriculture Department confirmed federal agents had killed the animals in order to force the adult wolves to relocate.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: wolf; wolves
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I'm from the government and here to help.

We had to kill them, in order to save them.

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS ON YOUR OWN LAND.

1 posted on 10/13/2021 12:41:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Another federal agent, Colonel John Chivington, had a phrase for this when it came to Indians:

Nits make lice.

Good to know that nothing has changed in the mindset of the Feds in 150 years.

2 posted on 10/13/2021 12:47:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m fine with killing them all. These are all Canadian wolves introduced by left-wing busibodies that have become an invasive species


3 posted on 10/13/2021 12:50:38 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Amazing. All the efforts by the feds to re-introduce wolves all over the west, and then they do this...after that pack had lived there for EIGHTEEN years.

I wonder if the ranchers in the area were complaining about stock loss.


4 posted on 10/13/2021 12:51:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I won’t ask if these fools are stupid or just how stupid they are.

We need help from somewhere out of this world because these life forms have a flawed gene pool that can’t be fixed.


5 posted on 10/13/2021 12:52:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Is there a reason they couldn't all be relocated?

An official from the Agriculture Department confirmed federal agents had killed the animals in order to force the adult wolves to relocate.

So if the adults relocate to an unapproved place, will they kill them too? After seeding places with wolves? Does the right hand know what the left is doing?

6 posted on 10/13/2021 12:54:15 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Du varg du varg, kom inte hit
Ungen min får du aldrig

Wolf, Wolf stay away
You will never get my child.

-Swedish lullaby.

7 posted on 10/13/2021 12:54:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Karma coming and it’s name is Hounds of Hell.


8 posted on 10/13/2021 1:02:05 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They should have captured and relocated them all. This is stupid and unnecessary.


9 posted on 10/13/2021 1:03:12 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Voluntarily “adopting” and feeding wild animals is always a bad idea. The animals stop migrating and become dependent on dumb humans who do not know what they are doing.


10 posted on 10/13/2021 1:03:22 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: forgotten man
Voluntarily “adopting” and feeding wild animals is always a bad idea. The animals stop migrating and become dependent on dumb humans who do not know what they are doing.

Not a good idea with human animals, either. They forget how to work and do for themselves very quickly.

11 posted on 10/13/2021 1:06:49 PM PDT by abb
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To: DUMBGRUNT

These are monster Canadian Timber wolves that were never indigenous to Idaho. They are huge up to 200lbs. They wreak havoc on the elk herds, livestock and hunting dogs. They are not afraid of you either. They need to be relocated out of the lower 48.


12 posted on 10/13/2021 1:10:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Reno89519

Why don’ they relocate them to your backyard next time.


13 posted on 10/13/2021 1:14:31 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: DUMBGRUNT
When the government becomes a "middle man"


14 posted on 10/13/2021 1:14:40 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

DAY-um, Skippy.

Whatever happened to SSS?


15 posted on 10/13/2021 1:14:47 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: GraceG

Pardon me if I object to your meme.

Middle men can perform a valuable service by connecting a consumer with a product or service. This can be an act of convenience like when you go to Costco and you can buy a large variety of goods in one stop instead of several stops.

I only object to middlemen when they become or try to become monopolistic.

Like when car dealers insist that manufacturers like Tesla have to sell cars through the stealerships instead of selling directly to customers.


16 posted on 10/13/2021 1:19:43 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The truth about Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjgGJHDVxo)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
"These are monster Canadian Timber wolves" who forgot where the border between the US and Canada was?   How is that possible?   Over the Millennium, did all of the small sweet docile American Timber wolves always stay on the American side of the Idaho border with Canada?   I sometimes wonder.
17 posted on 10/13/2021 1:20:45 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My objection to this action is the Feds paid agents to go do this when plenty of people would have paid the Feds for the chance to kill off these vermin.


18 posted on 10/13/2021 1:22:19 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The truth about Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjgGJHDVxo)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It was just a practice run of Post-Birth Abortion which, clearly, is already in the future for the sheeple between the ages of 1 and 100...

Particularly as a means of weeding out the patriotic, intelligent, Caucasian, Asian, anti-vaxxers, MAGA deplorables, Christians, and other potential terrorists...

IMHO, will start being implemented before 2024 elections...
Our ruling communist masters are running amok...


19 posted on 10/13/2021 1:31:42 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: higgmeister

The Northwestern Gray wolf which is much smaller than the Canadian timber wolf was the indigenous wolf in the Northwest. Here in the South we have the Red wolf which runs about 85 lbs and is not aggressive. Although my sister had a gray wolf somewhat larger than her Pyrenees walk through their yard one day up in Waynesville, NC. Not a timber wolf though. But she said it was still impressive.


20 posted on 10/13/2021 1:32:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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