[BillCompton]

Unless they have rabies, wolves are not dangerous. You have watched one too many disney movies.

>Shall I assume you are not a farmer or rancher?

That is certainly a different matter. The post I referred to concerned: "Backpackers" who "will become endangered."

Wolves are hell on livestock, but there is a common misconception that they are, in packs, human killers. They are not.

[Judith Anne]

Wolves are opportunists and pack hunters. They will eat what it is easy to get. An unarmed backpacker alone is easy for a pack to get.

I like wolves just fine; there are lots of wild animals in my area, including bears, panthers, coyotes, deer, beavers, groundhogs, armadillos, you name it, it's here...my neighbor videotaped a bear eating Golden Grain out of a sack in a shed, other neighbors who raise cattle saw, in daylight, a pair of panthers kill a calving cow...

But liking the wildlife, and living by choice among all of them, does not mean that any of them are to be trusted around humans, especially wolves in packs.