[toddst]

Wolves have one advantage over hunters i.e. they cull the herd. With deer carrying Lymes and CWD that is not a bad year round option.

Do you not care that wolves DO attack humans? Here's one account, recent. There are others.

http://www.paragonpowerhouse.org/camper_wakes_up_as_wolf_attacks.htm

Camper wakes up as wolf attacks

  by The Associated Press     VICTORIA, B.C. - A 23-year-old man is recovering in Victoria General Hospital after an extremely rare wolf attack on a human. Scott Langevin, 23, required 50 stitches to close a wound on his head. A third of his scalp was shaved to allow for a crisscross of gashes to be treated.

  The wolf also bit Langevin on his left forefinger. The University of Victoria student said he was asleep early Sunday morning outside his tent on Vargas Island near Tofino when he was awakened by something tugging at the foot of his sleeping bag.

  He told a local television station he awoke to find a dark-colored wolf.

  "I yelled to try to spook it off, and I kicked at it," Langevin said.

  "It backed up a bit, but then it just lunged on top of me, and it started biting away through my sleeping bag."

  Langevin said he rolled over in an attempt to get the campfire between him and the wolf, but the animal jumped on his back and began biting his head.   He said he yelled to attract the attention of the rest of his camping buddies, members of a kayaking excursion.

  Boaters Dave Leblanc and Doug Leys responded to the call about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.   Langevin was losing blood quickly but was conscious when he was loaded aboard the boat. He was eventually airlifted to Victoria.

  Wolf attacks on humans are extremely rare, said Bill Woodhouse, a recreation officer with British Columbia Parks.

  "There has never been a wolf attack in a park," Woodhouse said. "Wolves normally stay away from man."

  Conservation officers tracked and killed two wolves in the area yesterday.

Posted: 7/06/2000

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for posting the report. I don't trust wolves, and though this sounds like a wolf on it's own, in packs I think they are even more dangerous to humans.

[Righty1]

By your logic all mammalian predators, poisonous reptiles and arachnids, as well as sharks should be dispatched from the planet forthwith. Coyotes bite many more people than wolves, deer are involved in many fatal car crashes, cougars like to eat female joggers and grizzlies are about as dangerous as an animal gets. I don't understand the preoccupation with wolves?

[JoshNY]

"I yelled to try to spook it off, and I kicked at it," Langevin said.

Right there tells you why the Wolf attacked this guy. As any wildlife expert tells you, if a wild animal is approaching you, ie. bear, cougar, and other animals, play dead. Do not entice the animal. And that is what this guy did.

The wolf was just curious, and when he tried to kick it, that is what upset the Wolf, and made it attack.

If we try to kick a normal house dog, does it not become offensive, and try to attack us back?

This is just my opinion