[nightdriver]

"We have coyotes. We have fox. We have fishers. We have a lot of predators in this area," he says. "It's nice to have the wolf around . . . you've got to have balance."

It's NICE to have the wolf around? You numbskull!!

You obviously don't care for human life.

The guy I know who came upon a wolf munching on the still-warm remains of his 8-year-old son would probably disagree with you.

[myralee_8]

THAT is the misconception EVERYONE makes.
This article really makes me angry.
The wolves HAVE to eat livestock, because we've killed their wolf prey FOR SPORT and they are starving. So we blame them for trying to survive. Also, wolves do not kill for "The Thrill" of it.
The attacks in which an animal was not partially or completely eaten, were almost definitely NOT wolf attacks.
Cougars, grizzlies, coyotes, maybe.
But wolves are so much more complex. They do not hunt for "the thrill". It's just that simple.
They don't.
And nightdriver, there is absolutely no way that a wolf killed that boy. It may have found the boy dead, the result of a cougar attack, and been desperate enough to eat some.
There has NEVER been a case (in recorded history) of a healthy, purebred wolf, attacking and killing a human being.
NEVER.
Wolves are just always blamed.
And they are no more (in fact, much, much, much less) savage killers than humans.
They hunt to eat.
That's that.
We hunt for fun, for money, for sport, for god knows why else, but almost never purely for food.
I honestly think Wolves are more civilized than we.