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Two or three years ago when they released wolves on the NM AZ border a newly retired AZ man shot one of the wolves that was running toward him to attack in his rv camp with other family members. Poor guy thought he was going to spend his retirement in prison! I a can guarentee you that with the liberal politics in goverment that if there was ANY question that his version was not accurate he would be in prison right now!

I personally met some guys in NM that watched Game Commission guys shoot cow elk in the hip so the wolves would pick up the blood trail and "get their kill" on a wounded elk. The Game Commission denied it of course.

I had a enviromental biologist friend who about 5 years ago met a group of biology grad students from U of A in the field on Gray's Ranch. (The Gray Ranch is essentially the boothill of NM and is owned by the Nature Conservancy.) He asked them how many Mexican gray wolves they had counted. Answer: none. He informed that he personally had seen 4 different wolves on the Ranch. They were developing a managment plan without even doing a real inventory of what was there! Yes, I'm talking about real native Mexican gray wolves, not those dog mixed half baked domestics that the Game Commission is releasing!

The animal in the article may have been a coyote-dog mix. Also in NM, about 5 years ago, we picked up a dog from the pound for my youngest son...looked like a nice little shepard mix. Maggie turned out to be a coyote mix! Damn thing run down to the neighbors house and killed a chicken every time you loosed it!

Sounds like you live in SW NM. I lived near Pinos Altos from '98 - '00. Loved it there.

Another thing that wolf releases in AZ/NM have proved is that wolves will take livestock before wild game like deer and elk. Once they learn (and it doesn't take long) that domestic critters are easier than wild ones that will be their preference. They aren't stupid.