Posted on 10/27/2007 12:20:20 PM PDT by george76
A pack of wolves killed about a half-dozen sled dogs from three teams in Marshall on Wednesday night before residents of the Yukon River village chased them out of town, according to village officials and Alaska State Troopers.
The wolves killed three adult dogs, including a female with pups, several villagers said. About three of the pups were also killed and several other dogs injured.
"They were running through the whole town here," said Dewayne Cooper, the housing improvement officer for the Native Village of Marshall. "They're not just hanging out by the dog teams. I don't know what they're looking for, but they're obviously not scared."
A group of about 15 people killed at least one of the wolves and wounded several, said Maureen Larson, who works for the Marshall Traditional Council.
The wolves -- it was unclear exactly how many there were -- appeared in town early in the evening Wednesday, about 6 or 7 p.m., when they were seen skulking near housing in the northeast portion of town, Larson said.
Some kids shot at them and scared them off, she said.
But around 8:30 p.m. they were back to begin their assault on three of the village's five dog teams, said musher Clem Kameroff, whose dogs were attacked.
Troopers got the report of the invading wolves Thursday morning...
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And tell me again why it is that we want these things running around back east?
villagers are concerned that the wolves, having tasted that easy treat, might be back. A group of hunters went out on four-wheelers Thursday to track the wolves and engage in some “preventative maintenance,” Cooper said.
“I don’t think it’s over yet,” he said. “They were in downtown Marshall, they were in uptown Marshall, they were all over town.”
Rumor has it that they like Liberals.
The USFWS are spending lots of our tax dollars to introduce Canadian wolves to the USA.
Then the beaurocrazies will get millions more dollars to ‘manage’ these Canadian wolves...
I hope those kids do not draw any pictures of guns in their school or they will be expelled. No tolerance, you know.
My last assignment before retiring from the US Army in 1990 was in central New York State and the area was 'overrun' with deer. They roamed the farms, vineyards and orchards and even people's yards in herds of 35 to 40 dear. Driving at night was especially hazardous because you never knew when you would drive around a sharp corner and find a herd of deer filling the road and fields on either side of the road.
The liberal idiots who lived in the area wanted to enact laws requiring farmers to fence their fields in order to keep the deer out of the roads so the cars wouldn't kill the poor little 'bambis'. They also refused to allow communities to hire pest control professionals to thin out the herds.
The idea or reintroducing a Predator Population (other than man) into the Northeast United States appealed to me then and still does today.
The pro-wolf lobby has for decades claimed that wolves in North America have never attacked and killed humans. They say there is no such credible historically recorded event.
I don’t believe that at all.
Nevertheless, it is only a matter of time before an attack happens and is highly publicized, just like such events involving mountain lions (puma/panther). Then we can expect to see organized wolf hunts in the lower 48 states.
Packs of stray and feral dogs are far more dangerous to people in small settlements. Every few years a kid gets killed or mauled, and the whole village goes out hunting stray dogs. Dogs have been habituated to humans and stick around the settlement; while wolves stay away from settlements, unless they’re desperate.
Wolves Suspected in Death of 22-year-old Ontario Man
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912826/posts
“We’re looking to make sure they’re not harming people. That’s our main concern,” Andrew said. “We have a large population of small children.”
Villagers have been advised to keep children inside after dark.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=7273671
I’m a big fan of icanhascheezburger.com, and for some reason, this reminds me of the pic I just saw there, with a dachshund looking up from the hot-dog squeezy toy he’s just been gnawing on, as if to ask the question the caption poses...
“...dis not cannibalizm…rite?”
I can’t believe George Bush can’t even protect one little village’s dogs from wolves driven mad by global warming. At least send Gore and manbearpig up there.
PS Wait till elk get established in the east if you think running into a deer is bad.
Uh,, how about lengthening the doe season and give out free hunting license's.
That might be one way to start but since the Environmentalist Wackos are so quick to intervene in the State of Alaska's every attempt at Predator Control (read 'Wolf Control'), I still think it would only be fair to export some of the wolves that they're so concerned about to their own home counties and states...
Considering your last post (which I missed while making MY post)... maybe I’m not with you after all.
When game animals are at a low point in their cycle, predators like wolves and coyotes are starving and dangerous. I’ve lost cats to coyotes & a friend had a dog eaten by wolves right in his (very large) back yard.
Wolves have a fear of humans — that’s why they don’t typically attack us. They got that fear from seeing how deadly we can be. One could draw parallels with geopolitics. Liberals would make excuses for the wolf, and persist in denying that it could be a threat. Conservatives would go wolf hunting — which keeps the wolves at bay, and convinces liberals that they are no threat.
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