by Bob Walsh
The
people who keep track of such things insist that there is no RECORDED
death of a human being by wolves in North America. (There was a woman
killed in Canada a year or two back by wolf-coyote crossbreeds.) A
fellow in Stevens County, Washington, almost got to be numero uno, a
record I am sure he was happy to avoid.
He
was out checking his game cameras when he was surrounded by a pack of
wolves. After being unable to scare them away he whipped out his trusty
Browning rifle and shot one of the wolves very dead. The others
suddenly remembered they had dentist appointments somewhere else.
The
department of fish and game sent a person out to investigate and the
game cameras back up the shooter's story. I don't know if they let him
keep the pelt or not.
2 comments:
He was later arrested for killing an endangered species.
I had a deputy friend of mine who walked out into a field in Matagorda County looking for evidence from a burglary. A pack (8 to 10) of wild but domestic looking dogs surrounded him and became vicious. After a couple of dogs went for his legs he shot 2 of them and the rest scattered. He told me that had he been unarmed they may have killed him. He went to the scattered farm houses in the area to warn people. Guess what? He recognized some of the same dogs from that pack. All dogs are descendants of wolves.
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