Just for reference, cattle deaths by all predators (including dogs, coyotes, and whatever else) account for less than 1% of cattle deaths nationwide. And ranchers are fully reimbursed for all wolf kills, even if they are grazing their cows on public lands wolves are known to inhabit. These kills are a drop in the bucked compared to losses from weather and infection.
The number of wolf kills might seem high until you realize how many hundreds of thousands of cows are being produced and look at numbers lost to whether. Here is some more info:
"The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife fingered black bears for 245 destroyed bee colonies last year. Ravens for pecking the eyes out of 19 kid goats. Grizzly bears for killing 10 cows, six calves, 24 sheep and a llama.
Wolves were the suspect in the deaths of 61 cows, 378 calves, three guard dogs and two herd dogs investigated by U.S. Wildlife, Steuber said. But coyotes were a force.
"Coyotes killed five adult cattle, 449 calves, 228 adult sheep, 3004 lambs, 35 goats and 18 chickens," he said.
But Mother Nature was unsurpassed: 22,000 cattle and 52,800 calves in Montana alone."