Taking your dog into the woods

[CAMPMEAT]

Is this your neighbor I met ? 

[waterdoctor]

We have a 100# Airedale, I put a spiked collar on him and hope for the best.  Last year a wolf ran a deer into the yard and the dog went after the wolf.  It was a lone one that I think had been kicked out of a pack.  45 minutes later my dog came back none the worse for ware.  However if there are two or more of the wolves he is toast.  The Fish and game biologist out of Colville  came by our house and said he thought that my dog would do alright.  I told him that my dog was on borrowed time.

 I always carry my .44 when away from the house.   

[Mudman]

Bear spray works on any animal very well.  Not as good as a 50cal.!   An air horn?  Come on man!  Is he gonna throw rocks too?  Natural selection at work.

[UptheCreek]

Would bear spray work on cattle?  Darn things seem to sniff out the alfalfa every time I put it out at my stand!

[Mudman]

Yes it would!!!   Do it, funny thing about the bear spray that most people dont realize is after its sprayed and has time to relax it becomes a pepper food attractant for bears!!!!  I dont believe Gamie could bust ya for baiting for using spray?

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Sorry but those wolves would have been dead if it were me.  I'll knock the *censored* out of domestic dogs if they are harassing my dogs in town, a wolf in the woods is meeting the 44.

On a different note, i don't bring my dogs to Idaho with me anymore since one is a husky, I don't think wolf hunters will notice a collar ; )

I am very cautious of them exploring around camp or running free in the woods in wa since they seem  to be spreading everywhere and I have heard what happens when wolves and dogs meet.  I used to worry about coyotes, not anymore!!!!

[Ridgeratt]

I left the "Blonde" Q-tip home this weekend didn't want to get in trouble!
Said she's going next weekend or my shoes are "TOAST"!! 

[KFhunter]

I keep my Britt pretty close - a lion wanted her pretty bad once ( that I know of )

[bearpaw]

I knew we were on borrowed time, we have documented those wolves here on the forum and they don't have enough trappers to verify them because they are too busy at the wedge and elsewhere.  We need a dozen trappers now, but by the time they increase the trappers we will need two dozen trappers to keep up. 

This is exactly the sequence of events that occurred in ID/MT.

We need legislators to get on this issue before it's the human and not the dog that gets attacked. 

The state better get on top of this quick, next year more pups will be born and put twice the number of wolves on the landscape. In the beginning wolves increase in population very quickly, ask anyone in ID/MT.

[madmack76]

the wolves are getting out of control me and my dad have seen them for the last two years up in randle, but of course they don't exist there. they were gone for a reason keep it that way.

[windygorge]

A gun is too heavy but your going to carry bear spray and a air horn.

 

[notawolffan]

Does anybody know if there are any politicians who are taking a stand against the wolves? Any organizations other than the Cattlemens Association working on this?  I am determined to do whatever I can to change the current law, it is ignorance at its worst. 

[KFhunter]

[notellumcreek]

 

 You need something to protect the neck too or else that vest is pointless. 
On a side note, anyone think there would be a type of dog that could maybe at least hold its ground for a bit against a wolf/wolves? I know if a dog is out numbered they are screwed from the start, but after all this wolf talk, with me going into the woods all the time, and a dog in the near future, I think I will be getting something big... we use to have a 180Lb great pyrenees that was a tank, use to take firework mortars to the face because he would stick his nose down the tube... and he would attack any other fireworks we lit for him  one of the best dogs I have ever known.

[GrousePointer]

 You need something to protect the neck too or else that vest is pointless. 
On a side note, anyone think there would be a type of dog that could maybe at least hold its ground for a bit against a wolf/wolves? I know if a dog is out numbered they are screwed from the start, but after all this wolf talk, with me going into the woods all the time, and a dog in the near future, I think I will be getting something big... we use to have a 180Lb great pyrenees that was a tank, use to take firework mortars to the face because he would stick his nose down the tube... and he would attack any other fireworks we lit for him  one of the best dogs I have ever known.

Great Danes and Irish Wolf hounds were once bred to handle wolves.

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