wolf problem?

[HeHateMe]

Happy thanksgiving peeps. I was taking a morning walk around the family homestead and spotted a WOLF in a meadow we use for hay. It was a lone wolf. We dont mind coyotes too much because they kill the foxes that get after the chickens, but dont know nothing about wolves... i fired a couple of shots to scare it off but am concerned that there may be more and may present a hazard to the cattle. Wolves? Wtf to do about them?

 

[X]

Happy thanksgiving peeps. I was taking a morning walk around the family homestead and spotted a WOLF in a meadow we use for hay. It was a lone wolf. We dont mind coyotes too much because they kill the foxes that get after the chickens, but dont know nothing about wolves... i fired a couple of shots to scare it off but am concerned that there may be more and may present a hazard to the cattle. Wolves? Wtf to do about them?

All I have to offer....

[video=youtube;fdMxRG9Jol0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMxRG9Jol0[/video]

Good luck.

 

[Bigfoot]

Make him your pet, I have a Husky that looks like a wolf and people get all freaked out when I'm walking him thinking he is going to attack them. lol

In all seriousness, I would leave him alone unless he is threating you and the family as well as the pets or livestock. Wolves do a good job of keeping the balance of animals in wild, as they are a natural predator. Also check with local laws, I think in some areas wolves are a protected animal.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving HHM and X

 

[botfly10]

It it was really a wolf... you don't have anything to worry about. They don't get cattle. Its a big giant myth.

Very rarely a single wolf will start going after cows, but if that individual is culled, the problem goes away.

But its not innate that they go after livestock. Its a learned behavior for them and something that only crops up extremely rarely and in lone individuals.

 

[fenderpfunk]

Hehateme if you don't mind me asking you -.what area or county was that in?

 

[BIGGIEsmalls 23]

[video=youtube;qOlZxKaANA0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOlZxKaANA0[/video]

 

[Urblock]

Happy thanksgiving peeps. I was taking a morning walk around the family homestead and spotted a WOLF in a meadow we use for hay. It was a lone wolf. We dont mind coyotes too much because they kill the foxes that get after the chickens, but dont know nothing about wolves... i fired a couple of shots to scare it off but am concerned that there may be more and may present a hazard to the cattle. Wolves? Wtf to do about them?

The wolf heard about all the food you're making today and was looking for your house. Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[Omeletpants]

Happy thanksgiving peeps. I was taking a morning walk around the family homestead and spotted a WOLF in a meadow we use for hay. It was a lone wolf. We dont mind coyotes too much because they kill the foxes that get after the chickens, but dont know nothing about wolves... i fired a couple of shots to scare it off but am concerned that there may be more and may present a hazard to the cattle. Wolves? Wtf to do about them?

WTF, you are a real pioneer. Like you are living in the 1830s

 

[JosMin]

I'd just show the wolf my sack. He'd run away instantly because he's never seen something so manly that reeked of testosterone like that in his life.

 

[Omeletpants]

I'd just show the wolf my sack. He'd run away instantly because he's never seen something so manly that reeked of testosterone like that in his life.

and then the 15 year olds showed up

 

[HeHateMe]

It it was really a wolf... you don't have anything to worry about. They don't get cattle. Its a big giant myth.

Very rarely a single wolf will start going after cows, but if that individual is culled, the problem goes away.

But its not innate that they go after livestock. Its a learned behavior for them and something that only crops up extremely rarely and in lone individuals.

Thats pretty much what i thought but our old ass neighbor who lives a couple of miles away (in indiana, we're in southeast ohio) was talking about how twenty years ago a wolf killed one of his calves (about 300 lb animal) he didnt witness it. I didnt think we had wolves around here...

 

[HeHateMe]

WTF, you are a real pioneer. Like you are living in the 1830s

Kinda, but pretty technologically equipped. Like, i have nightvision and laser sights, infrared trail cams, have underarmor longjohns, etc.

 

[botfly10]

Really it was probably someones dog.

But either way, its really really rare for them to go after livestock. Once ranchers know there are wolves in the area, they pretty much blame every death on them. But they are almost never validated. In Montana and Idaho where they have been reintroduced, there is a program that pays ranchers if they lose stock to a wolf. There have been hundreds of claims and only a handful of confirmed kills. Of course the ranchers refuse to believe their stock died from other causes and claim some kind of government wolf conspiracy but thats a whole other thing.

 

[DC]

Wolf meat is 1000X better than Horsemeat. Unless, of course, it's not seasoned correctly.

 

[SilenceS]

Kenny Powers owns a wolf! Why not you! They are great with small children!

 

[Crystallas]

Dunno. Never had wolf problems. I'd probably shoot it, if it was sniffing around livestock.

 

[HeHateMe]

Really it was probably someones dog.

But either way, its really really rare for them to go after livestock. Once ranchers know there are wolves in the area, they pretty much blame every death on them. But they are almost never validated. In Montana and Idaho where they have been reintroduced, there is a program that pays ranchers if they lose stock to a wolf. There have been hundreds of claims and only a handful of confirmed kills. Of course the ranchers refuse to believe their stock died from other causes and claim some kind of government wolf conspiracy but thats a whole other thing.

Nobody for miles owns a dog that looks like a wolf, but I gotcha.

 

[botfly10]

Yeah, and don't be shooting wolves, lmao. They are listed in Illinois and federally listed too.

 

[Crystallas]

Yeah, and don't be shooting wolves, lmao. They are listed in Illinois and federally listed too.

Hunting =/= shooting. Every wolf shooting in IL since it started being recorded was legal. What changed, is there is no longer a wolf hunting season in all but a few states.

I have a mix of farm, active elders, and kids in my area. You're damn right I'll shoot a wolf if its threating anything nearby. AKA: Use common sense.

 

[botfly10]

lol, see hhm?

Just for perspective, there have only been 3 recorded deaths caused by wolf attacks in the usa since 1943. All in Alaska...

Put another way, there has never been a documented case of a healthy wild wolf killing a human in the lower 48.

People have fucked up beliefs about wolves.