[andyt]

Yogi Yogi:

andyt andyt:

Can you give links to where a wolf pack has killed human beings? In Canada? Recently? We did have some wolves attack sleeping campers on Vancover Island, but that's because numbnuts had been feeding them. And, nobody was killed.

By this guy's description, the wolves were not packed up - he shot one who was close to him, and then had to go in search of the others. This is not behavior of wolves attacking a large animal such as a human, where they would come at him all at once. I read nothing in the story to indicate that the wolf was going to attack - it was checking him out more like. He's just making excuses. Did he keep the skins? That would indicate his likely intent right there.

If he truly had to shoot those wolves because of self defense, well so be it. Humans over animals. But it doesn't sound like it, especially for the last two.

although there was no evidence that Langevin or any of his party fed these animals.


http://www.aws.vcn.com/wolf_attacks_on_humans.html

$1:

British Colombia Ministry of Enviroment officials speculate the reason for the attack was due to the wolves occasionally being fed by humans

This is what I was referring to. I didn't mean that the victim himself had been feeding them.

Notice how few attacks there were, and no recent fatal ones. Wolves attacking humans is very rare compared to bears or cougars, and fatalities even rarer. I know I'd be scared if a wolf stared giving me the stare, and advancing. By the description it doesn't sound like that was the case with the guy in this story, and it certainly sounds like he went and sought out the second two. But who knows, we weren't there.

[Yogi]

andyt andyt:

Yogi Yogi:

andyt andyt:

Can you give links to where a wolf pack has killed human beings? In Canada? Recently? We did have some wolves attack sleeping campers on Vancover Island, but that's because numbnuts had been feeding them. And, nobody was killed.

By this guy's description, the wolves were not packed up - he shot one who was close to him, and then had to go in search of the others. This is not behavior of wolves attacking a large animal such as a human, where they would come at him all at once. I read nothing in the story to indicate that the wolf was going to attack - it was checking him out more like. He's just making excuses. Did he keep the skins? That would indicate his likely intent right there.

If he truly had to shoot those wolves because of self defense, well so be it. Humans over animals. But it doesn't sound like it, especially for the last two.

although there was no evidence that Langevin or any of his party fed these animals.


http://www.aws.vcn.com/wolf_attacks_on_humans.html

$1:

British Colombia Ministry of Enviroment officials speculate the reason for the attack was due to the wolves occasionally being fed by humans

This is what I was referring to. I didn't mean that the victim himself had been feeding them.

Notice how few attacks there were, and no recent fatal ones. Wolves attacking humans is very rare compared to bears or cougars, and fatalities even rarer. I know I'd be scared if a wolf stared giving me the stare, and advancing. By the description it doesn't sound like that was the case with the guy in this story, and it certainly sounds like he went and sought out the second two. But who knows, we weren't there.

" But who knows, we weren't there."

[scarecrowe]

35 yrs ago I encountered a pack in N. Ont. and was 5 feet from the closest. No need to shoot, just walked away, climbed a tree and waited 30 minutes.

Right, no trees to climb in Sascratchewan; shooting works better. Give the boy a medal.

[billypilgrim]

it's a damn shame. that's 3 more wolves that'll never go to school, never get to fall in love, or join a hockey pool.