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We live along the upper yukon. Had wolves in my garbage cans at 3 am back in Oct, a first for that but they have gotten into buckets of fish eggs that I use for bait other years.

THen, back in Feb, I saw tracks at bottom of my lane, so I called neighbor and told him to watch his dogs as a wolf was following their tracks on the main road. He called that night at 6 in evening, had just shot a female, 100 lb wolf that tried killing one of his dogs. He had just let the dogs out and heard them growlin, looked out and saw wolf at bottom of his lane. He ran in grabbed shot gun, ran out, wolf had his springer spaniel by neck on ground. He ran up hollaring and wolf wouldn't let go of dog, he shot wolf at like 10 feet, then wolf let go of dog and stumbled down lane and died, blood all over lane. He later said the wolf had grabbed his dog by butt and then when dog spun around, wolf latched onto dogs neck. I thought t was strange that wolf didn't let go of dog with neighbor right nx to him yelling.

We have had young wolves, yearlings walk up our lane and look our dog team over, but only singles and I'd walk out on porch and wolf would get up and stroll back down my lane. Many young wolves haven't seen many people. My kids would call them in at bus stop with mouth sqealer in mornings when they were hanging around. I like having wolves around, just not too many which means you need ariel wolf control to keep their numbers down or bounties on their hides, no joke.

I see all kinds of wolves when the caribou come through, some on the river lookin for dead salmon, and some when just out hunting. They sure are killing machines, but I like hearing them in winter at 4 am too.