Wolves have often been feared and loathed by people. While some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies held them in high regard, keepers of cattle, goats, and sheep felt very differently. Posted on 10/02/2017 10:31:43 AM PDT by w1n1
Wolves have often been feared and loathed by people. While some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies held them in high regard, keepers of cattle, goats, and sheep felt very differently.
In folklore, this apex predator is often pictured lurking in the forest waiting for its next victim, sometimes devious enough to dress up as someone’s grandmother! In fact, attacks on humans are very uncommon and usually involve a wolf with rabies. Wolves are closely related to dogs but are nearly impossible to domesticate.
While out in the woods of Wisconsin, John Oens saw a great big timber wolf with its paw caught in a trap. Fortunately for this beautiful animal, he knew just what to do. In the video, you’ll see his simple but ingenious wolf release technique.
Awesome! Magnificent animals.
That was awesome-———and I NEVER would have thought it could be done so easily.
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Good to know in case I ever run upon one here in Florida..................
Beautiful.
Thanks for posting this. Wolves are favs.
Nice!
Was the trap set for coyotes ? Just ban them already.
I’m surprised that this post has had 6 replies with no wolf haters responding that it should have been killed on sight. There seems to be a number of Freepers who took “Little Red Ridinghood” a little too seriously....
Traps or coyotes?
I love wolves. Found a pup on the railroad tracks once. Didn’t know it was a wolf. Brought it home and all the grown dogs were afraid of it. Daddy walked in and said “That’s a damned wolf!”. We took it back to where I’d found it and let it go.
Once my nephew showed my dad hus gerbal. Daddy looked in the cage and said “That’s a damned rat!”
Wolves were part of the eco system. Deer and other creatures were culled by wolves. Now we have overpopulations of deer.
I understand ranchers hate wolves, but ranching was never part of the eco system.
Lots of city/urban dwellers here.
Some of us Freepers live miles up mountains on dirt gravel roads where local deer, elk and moose populations have been decimated by wolves.
You post like someone who lives on pavement.
“I understand ranchers hate wolves, but ranching was never part of the eco system.”
Where do you think your hamburger comes from? Are you willing to pay higher prices to reimburse ranchers for the cattle they lose to wolves?
Romanticize these creatures all you want. They’re killers and if they come onto a ranch and into proximity with humans then they’re not coming around to be cuddly.
Our rule around here is that if we see a wolf or coyote loping through at a decent pace we’ll leave it alone. But if it stands still and looks our direction it gets shot.
Because if you don’t shoot it you’ll eventually wish you had.
Well done.
Risky business, but the guy took precautions in case the wolf turned on him. I’m glad the wolf could be freed.
Maybe some wolves are less vicious to people than others.
I wouldn’t know the difference, but some folks might.
I’m glad that wolves are so f***ing wonderful and awesome and would never hurt anyone in a million years and all that but if one comes near my grandkids when we’re camping he’s going to get introduced to Mr Marlin.
It depends on where you are. They are overabundant in some areas like Michigan but courts have ruled, at least for the gray wolf, you cannot drop them from the endangered list without evaluating the effect on populations elsewhere.
“Was the trap set for coyotes ? Just ban them already.”
I am all for banning coyotes.
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