State spays wild wolf after it’s bred by loose dog

[pianoman9701]

I would have spayed that overgorwn dog for them - cost of about $0.25. I wonder how many PR $s were spent capturing, sedating, spaying, and releasing that vermin. 

[bearpaw]

Idaho has a group that is paying trappers to successfully trap wolves, maybe Washington needs a group that pays dog owners to successfully breed dogs to wolves!

[denali]

As for the other wolf that died of late, it was the Ruby Creek female that last winter was impregnated by a local sheepdog and then spayed by WDFW in early March to prevent it from having hybrid pups.

Ware reports it was hit by a car and killed recently.


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http://nwsportsmanmag.com/editors-blog/washington-cougars-seriously-dont-like-wolves/

[ICEMAN]

Wildlife officials advised the dog owner to restrain the dog for the rest of the winter. 

I would have told wildlife to cram it up their cram hole. Keep your trashy wolves where they belong.

Where are the liberals on this? How dare wildlife get involved in crushing the natural beauty of genetic diversity!

[Axle]

A large domestic guard dog that took a month-long romp on the wild side in Pend Oreille County forced Washington Fish and Wildlife officials to capture and spay an endangered female gray wolf on Saturday.

Well, this part of the article is wrong. The gray wolf is not - nor ever has been endangered. They were unlawfully brought here though.

[nwwanderer]

This is a state sanctioned cross breeding program that will cost $$$$ at every turn.  Regardless of which way, male or female wild canis, the crossing will occur.  How many female dogs were bred as OR 7 made the trek?  This is not Alberta wilderness, it is full of dogs and the wolves will take advantage.  Advantage means they eat non cycling females and breed the rest.  Advantage means the cycling wolf female that left the pack to breed will do just that with a standard poodle, lab, guard dog (pretty logical since the agency encourages these in wolf country), heeler, shepherd, etc.  Do not worry about the size difference, if the cycling wolf runs into a Jack Russell at the right time she will help him get the job done.  Of course the agency dollars flow to stop such 'rare' behavior.  Is anyone documenting and distributing the actual costs of this wolf plan?

[Atroxus]

I don't understand why they would waste money spaying the wolf. They removed it from the gene pool by sterilizing it, so I don't see the purpose of releasing. They should have just put it down and called it a day. I bet it would have been cheaper, and I can't see any benefit to releasing a sterile wolf if their goal is "restoration of a native wolf population"  If it was an Alpha female, and it rejoins a pack are the males still going to try to breed her? Or will they just breed females that are not sterile?

[pianoman9701]

And down the rabbit hole we go!

[wolfbait]

I don't understand why they would waste money spaying the wolf. They removed it from the gene pool by sterilizing it, so I don't see the purpose of releasing. They should have just put it down and called it a day. I bet it would have been cheaper, and I can't see any benefit to releasing a sterile wolf if their goal is "restoration of a native wolf population"  If it was an Alpha female, and it rejoins a pack are the males still going to try to breed her? Or will they just breed females that are not sterile?

"I don't understand why they would waste money spaying the wolf."

Headlines>>>See now WDFW wouldn't try to snow people would they? After all WDFW have been in the wolf business since the 1980's at least. I think WDFW would like the people of WA to know, that they will not allow any of their wolves to mate with anything but the "alpha" male. It is another way of covering for all of the hybrid wolves.

True wolf management will have to come from the public. WDFW and Honesty is just like WDFW and wolf management. Shot full of holes.

[Oldguy]

I shared the wolf/sheepdog mating problem with my cousin, who isn't a hunter and he said that it was a good thing that the wolf was spayed. Otherwise there would have been wolf prowling the forest in sheeps clothing.

[Bob33]

I guess if that wolf had a male pup, we would all be saying "son of a b itch".