These are the kinds of things we need to stop and where real wolf education is needed. ...these viscous animals are absolute killing machines. Much of the time, they just kill their prey and leave them there, not even eating what they kill. -jeffhead Most of those are likely the work of other animals as proving kills unless directly witnessed; is extremely difficult. In fact, over 70% of kills that were thought to be caused by wolves; other animals; like coyotes were actually to blame. Take the dog/sheep photos. These have no characteristics of a wolf kill and if people would actually educate themselves about hunting tactics used by predators; they could blame the animal actually responsible instead of saying its all due to wolves because of location, not evidence. cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/hunt/wolfProject.html wolfcountry.net/information/WolfHunting.html LEARN THE TRUTH! wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_war_wildlife_livestock_losses STOP MAKING WOLVES THE SCAPEGOAT! MYTH: Wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, and others kill lots of cattle. TRUTH: Less than a quarter of one percent, 0.23%, of the American cattle inventory was lost to native carnivores and dogs in 2010, according to a Department of Agriculture report. MYTH: Coyotes, wolves, bears, and mountain lions kill lots of sheep. TRUTH: Four percent (4%) of the U.S. total sheep inventory are killed each year by carnivores such as coyotes and dogs, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) see data below. Even in Western states, native carnivores kill few sheep. Far more sheep die from health problems, lambing complications, and erratic weather. I highly recommend educating these people. ...reintroduction has failed because of us. Humans failed the animals. This year alone, people legally shot and trapped 769 wolves – close to half the entire “recovered” population of the Northern Rockies. As a matter of the health and safety of wolves, this can only be considered a terrible, unconscionable outcome. It’s not just that long-studied wolves in Yellowstone were killed, though that’s bad enough – but throughout their entire range, they have been subjected to pain and suffering for no good reason, traumatized by the killing of family members, and turned upside down with the radical disruption of their pack structures. There was praise and excitement about wolf reintroduction, and an abundance of science has now proved their beneficial ecological impacts. But no matter how well intentioned, that’s not enough. These poor creatures are suffering because we didn’t take the long-term into account and perhaps had too much faith in our fellow man. •••EDUCATE YOURSELF AND OTHERS ABOUT THE VITAL (but little known) BENEFITS OF HAVING A HEALTHY WOLF POPULATION! m.motherjones/environment/2011/04/protect-wolves-climate-change https://wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/PDF/11-Social%20and%20Ecological....pdf wyoming.sierraclub.org/ECOLOGICAL%20BENEFITS%20OF%20WOLVES.pdf missionwolf.org/page/trophic-cascade/ m.missoulian/news/opinion/mailbag/wolves-delisted-before-fully-recovered-now-being-slaughtered-without-good/article_9b442260-4d8d-11e4-894b-8fdc10e605d7.html?mobile_touch=true wolfcountry.net/information/WolfEndangered.html livingwithwolves.org/index.html Wild wolves are an iconic and spiritual part of the world and symbolize freedom in a way few creatures can. The world has lost so many paramount species due to human selfishness and need for dominance. What have we become when in an age of supposed reason, we slaughter these and other creatures in barbaric and archaic ways? They should be respected; protected and let alone as mutual living beings whom share what little is left free and unmolested in this world. jeffhead/idwolves.htm
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