Posted on 10/22/2009 6:46:40 AM PDT by george76
The Dillon ranchers who lost more than 120 buck sheep in an August wolf attack last week lost 23 lambs from the same area when wolves struck again.
Kathy Konen said this week that despite the presence of a herder and guard dogs, wolves struck the herd sometime in the early morning hours Oct. 17. She and husband Jon Konen lost 23 weaned lambs.
"They're in the area, and they've killed once," she said of wolves. "We knew they would come back and kill again." The Konens in August lost 122 sheep to wolves in the same pasture in the Blacktail Mountains southeast of Dillon. Trappers killed an adult wolf from the Centennial Pack after they were spotted in the area of the attack.
But officials with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks at the time said they were looking for two adult black wolves from a different pack that they believed were responsible for the attack. Those wolves were never located.
The Konens requested that the entire Centennial Pack be wiped out, saying the attack was so egregious and large scale that it was inevitable there would be future problems with the pack that was remaining in the area.
This time FWP has authorized that the remaining members of the Centennial Pack be killed following the attacks, said Carolyn Sime, wolf program coordinator. A trapper with U.S. Wildlife Services inspected the lambs Oct. 18 and determined 10 were killed by wolves while another 13 were so badly injured they wouldn't survive.
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I thought shepherds had both the right and responsibility to KILL WOLVES THAT THREATEN THE SHEEP!!
Night vision and your choice of AR or M1A with an Aimpoint M3.
BINGO! shoot shovel and shut up!
“2 black wolves” ? That, of course, is racist!
Defend your property or lose it!
Exactly. Do your business and keep quiet. Dead wolves tell no tales.
Was that a PUNNNN ?!?
I was under the impression that predatory animals only kl o survive, i.e, for food. These attacks seem to be random and done for sport.
Is this normal behaviour among Wolves?
Surprise.
The same wolf pack is back to the same ranch...killing for fun.
Yep Komondors great LGD dogs as well as about a dozen or so other breeds.
Wolves often kill for fun.
Even on larger cattle : wolf packs run the herd then rip the guts out of the cows.
There are many documented pictures of barely living cows with their guts hanging out.
The sheep herders and ranchers can not legally defend their livestock without prior government permission.
Sad state of affairs that needs to be reversed.
“I was under the impression that predatory animals only kl o survive, i.e, for food. These attacks seem to be random and done for sport.”
Predators will kill until prey is either out of reach or dead. Once a predator begins the attack, the kill behavior takes over, rather like a Democrat with access to tax money.
The enviro-commies like to call such behavior a “surplus kill” rather than the traditional and far more descriptive “killing frenzy”.
Such behavior occurs in both social predators and solitary predators such as cougar. Predators are not animals of surpassing intelligence, they operate on a limited set of behavior patterns.
The commies in the Montana game department know these kills will occur, they know that eventually predators will kill people. They do not care.
AgencyPersons only care about the cash flow for their project. That their pampered predators WILL kill, and likely eat, some helpless child means nothing to them.
GIMME MY CHECK! ! !
The motivating force of the bureaucrat in three words..
Wolves and coyotes often kill just for joy...they typically go through a pack of sheep or herd of cattle and kill dozens. Not atypical at all. Most ranchers wouldn’t raise so much hell if preditors took an animal once and a while, but the random killing can not be tollerated.
LOL! Excellent!
I wonder - do wolves have an affinity for ethylene glycol like other canines?
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