"Coyotes and wolves never attack children, or man unless they are laid out dead, or near death.
I also said I wasn't aware of any documented stories of such attacks. Which you didn't seem to notice. Since that post was short, I also didn't include rabies, or other causes for insanity in animals. The sort of things that means there's always going to be a sport.
For background, I've spent considerable time observing wolves and coyotes. I've corrected gross error in biological surveys for wolves in Quetico Park. Unlike Algonquin, Quetico is wilderness. The experts and biologists had concluded their were no wolves in that section of the park. I brought the rangers to them, showed them where they were and some of what they were up to. The rangers were able to observe with their own eyes what they were recently told was impossible.
The story of the wolf attack is a bit doubtful in itself, but it does fit, "laid out dead". First it's Aug., nighttime and it's in Ontario. If the kid wasn't wearing a mosquito head net, the mosquitos chewing on his face would make him unrecognizable. DEET don't help in such cases. How anyone could even sleep with such a racket as that roar of mosquitoes is a big question. If there was a wolf, it might have thought the kid was dead. If I saw someone laying still on the ground in the Ontario woods at night, I would think they were dead.
Then there's the problem of folks feeding the animals there. The bush pigs go wild and run the place. They have no fear of man. I'm sure the wolves are much less fearful than they otherwise would be for the same reason, but still with all of them there and the animals running the place(because of the tourist behavior)this is the only story that pops up.
"The wolf retreated and then charged at Tracy and Zach. The charges were repeated. Finally the wolf left."
If it was a wolf, which I highly doubt, the wolf was insane. They do not do this unless they are hunting in a pack and the prey is deemed helpless. Crippled prey is also what would cause an initial attack. A lone wolf isn't coming back as these folks claim, unless it's insane-as in psychotic.
They shot a 60lb wolf and I have no idea whether it was the right one, it was somebody's dog that attacked the kid, or even a bush pig.
"Wolf Killed After Attack On Alaska Boy"
First from the story: "Fish and Game officials knew of no other attack by a wolf on a human in recent Alaska history.
Since 1940, 38 people in Alaska have died from dog attacks and 32 from bear attacks, according to reports.
Does this sound like, "wolves coming in dragging our children off into the woods to eat them alive."?
Then: "In the attack, a six-year-old boy was bitten three times on the back.
"Witnesses reported that the wolf tried to carry the boy off into the woods."Doesn't sound credible. This would mean the wolf unnaturally and uncharacteristically, grabbed the flat part of the kid and tried to drag him. A wolf would have gone for the throat and a fast kill. Unless it was a fiegnt and there was no attempt to drag. A kid alone in AK, is defenseless and he was running away.
" The coyote snatched the toddler by the face and was dragging him to nearby bushes. The child's father was able to fight off the coyote with his golf club.
"At that time the coyote dropped the child, then turned around and again came back to attack the child again," said Cindy Beavers, of the San Bernardino Co. Sheriff's Dept.
BS. Take your pick. It was a dog, or it was a dog.
"Please get a clue"
Right.
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