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Fine. If WAcoyote and idahohunter are going to get called out for flagging the absurdity of the "news article" then I'll play along too. If you Google "catron county wolves children" then you can find ONE fox news article from 2013 that talks about the 10 years old enclosures at the time of the article. Not much else. Of course the article also mentioned that only 3 wolf attacks on humans had occured in the last 4 decades (none by Mexican gray wolves) but those are just facts- let's not let those get in the way of biases!!The definition of fake news/ manufactured outrage right there
Wolves in the US have been hunted for centuries and before they were almost completely eradicated from the landscape with government assistance, they feared man and stayed away. This is the reason that very few attacks on people have Although posts like this are outdated, and attacks by the OP on those whose views are not perfectly aligned with his are common and often way over-the-top and inflammatory, assuming there's no danger to our population from wolves because of so few attacks in the past is naive at best and shows ignorance of long-term wolf behavior worldwide. I believe the attacks are coming and if we don't start showing them the danger of interacting with humans by delisting and managing, it's going to be tragic for some families.
Quote from: dwils233 on January 09, 2019, 11:22:09 PMFine. If WAcoyote and idahohunter are going to get called out for flagging the absurdity of the "news article" then I'll play along too. If you Google "catron county wolves children" then you can find ONE fox news article from 2013 that talks about the 10 years old enclosures at the time of the article. Not much else. Of course the article also mentioned that only 3 wolf attacks on humans had occured in the last 4 decades (none by Mexican gray wolves) but those are just facts- let's not let those get in the way of biases!!The definition of fake news/ manufactured outrage right thereWell gosh I guess if the "news" says there have only been 3 wolf attacks in the last 4 decades then, Wacoyote and Idaho are in the clear for their response, after all WDFW have the same mentality of Let's Wait and See..Shouldn't matter when the article was written, dumping fake pen raised wolves in the middle of cattle country and then protecting them above all else is the problem, same with the illegal wolf introduction.Should be if the wolves are hanging out around the public, shoot them-Period.I wonder how many time wolves have attacked people in WA, Idaho etc. and the papers never printed the story? I can remember several right here in the Methow, quite sure Bearpaw knows of a few.More wolf protection corruption-a wolf attack don't count as an attack unless the wolf kills the person, chewing a person up isn't considered a wolf attack as long as the person lives and if he/she lives-the wolf was curious, the wolf was just playing, the children were in the wolf's habitat, one BS excuse after another to protect their fake endangered wolves.Wacoyote, Idaho-h response isn't about when the article was written it's about standing up against anything that looks bad for the fake endangered wolves, they have spent several years defending wolves.
Do you ACTUALLY believe that if a wolf attacked and injured somebody - but didn't kill the person - that it wouldn't be counted as a wolf attack on a human?I'm quite certain those stores would make the town paper.I am not pro-wolf, certainly not for protecting them to the extent we do. I hate that some ranchers are being driven off land their family has ranched for years due to wolf protection. I'm fine if all of those wolves are killed.I wish pro-wolfers had to pay the actual price tag for the wolves.But you lose a lot of people when you say things like this.....
Your domesticated wolf is far more dangerous than the wild ones..
Something I found was interesting when talking to an old time Alaskan was a story about a guy who tried cattle ranching in our valley (Central Alaska) . The place is crawling with wolves but that wasn't what put him out of business. It was the grizzly bears.
Quote from: Cougartail on January 10, 2019, 12:20:31 PMSomething I found was interesting when talking to an old time Alaskan was a story about a guy who tried cattle ranching in our valley (Central Alaska) . The place is crawling with wolves but that wasn't what put him out of business. It was the grizzly bears.Again, strawman. AK isn't WA, NM, AZ or TX. Almost all of AK is wild and they kill wolves on a regular basis up there, as well as grizzlies. Whole different dynamic.
Quote from: Cougartail on January 10, 2019, 12:11:08 PM Your domesticated wolf is far more dangerous than the wild ones..The is the same strawman argument that you use for predator management, that cougars kill way more ungulates than wolves, so we don't need to worry about the wolves. BS. We need to manage both. Your argument this time says that because dogs are statically more dangerous, we should ignore the the danger that wolves present. Perfect strawman argument and also BS. We need to manage both. We're adding an additional danger by not managing these wolves and giving them a fear of humans. We're also lulling our population into believing that because this animal has attacked very few in North America in the last century, it's not a dangerous animal and never will be. Neither of these are true and a study of wolves worldwide proves their nature. Will you take responsibility for wolf attacks when they happen? Of course not. You'll make excuses. You'll claim it's isolated. Or when it continues, you'll slink away into the background...like a managed wolf. You have nothing to lose by supporting unfettered population of this apex predator.