Wolves attacking horses

[rifleman762]

Once the worlves have found an easily accessable and readily available food source, deterring them will be almost impossible. Once they figure out that the lights and noise aren't dangerous they won't stop. Unfortunately the only lights and noise that will probably stop these ones are a loud bang and a muzzle flash.

These people will keep dicking around until somebody gets hurt. Generally speaking wolves won't attack an adult human, but they'll sure as heck go after dogs. And if a human is walking the dog, I don't know that they'd differentiate.

I yelled at an Alberta timberwolf while elk hunting this year and it kept coming towards me (not stalking me but wanted to travel past me on an angle) and it didn't care. As soon as I took a pot shot (200 yards offhand and I missed) it took off at a full run off to the side. They learn quickly about what is real danger.

 

[Arctic]

Which animal do they want to be "humane" with, ....the mare or the wolf? One of them will be going done to resolve the problem, .......no choices allowed!!

 

[KotKotofeich]

For crying out loud,

Nice

you don’t want to shoot them then get a donkey.

Sounds like it's the type of people to complain about the noise too. Some city folks moved in next to an acquaintance's farm and promptly started complaining about the noise from their roosters to the city hall. What they didn't know is that a zoned farm is excluded from such trivial matters as animal noise (or smell) complaints. The farm now also has donkeys and guinea fowl My suggestion to run their tractor super early on Saturday mornings to pile manure along the property line is being held in reserve for now...

 

[KePet]

No doubt city people that have moved to the country. I wonder if these types ever learn that you can't negotiate with wild predators. They don't listen to reason. You can't appeal to their sense of fair play. And you can complain all you want to the authorities, and they still don't abide by the rules............actually this is starting to sound more like the criminals/gang bangers in the city they probably moved out of.

 

[Suther]

No doubt city people that have moved to the country. I wonder if these types ever learn that you can't negotiate with wild predators. They don't listen to reason. You can't appeal to their sense of fair play. And you can complain all you want to the authorities, and they still don't abide by the rules............actually this is starting to sound more like the criminals/gang bangers in the city they probably moved out of.

Rural folk can be stupid hippies too. While this kind of attitude is more common in the city, it's not non existent outside of the city...

 

[Uisge]

No doubt city people that have moved to the country. I wonder if these types ever learn that you can't negotiate with wild predators. They don't listen to reason. You can't appeal to their sense of fair play. And you can complain all you want to the authorities, and they still don't abide by the rules............actually this is starting to sound more like the criminals/gang bangers in the city they probably moved out of.

Donkeys are pretty good at negotiating with them.
Donkey: leave or I ll kick you in the lips
wolf: no way man!
Donkey: *breaks wolfs face
wolf: ok I guesshh I’ll leavsh.
Classic farm negotiation.
Coyotes don’t get the warning

 

[holzmeister]

A donkey will take on the position as protector and they are fearless when it comes to wolves and coyotes. My mare had shoes front and back and got as many coyote kills as I did 1 winter. ( 3 )

 

[dimeN]

They obviously dont care about their horses very much ! If they take rediculous measures to deter wild animal attacks.. perhaps they should be honest with themselves and realize that caring for horses is beyond their ability !!
.. even the so called human society will euthanize animals

To me, they are negligent

 

[MiG25]

I'm skeptical that wolves are to blame. Horses can take care of themselves. It was probably bitten by another horse. One got caught in a fence, they were confined and one bit another to sort out the pecking order.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I'm skeptical that wolves are to blame. Horses can take care of themselves. It was probably bitten by another horse. One got caught in a fence, they were confined and one bit another to sort out the pecking order.

Yup, People that don't know better are quick to make assumptions. Seen horses do some pretty scary thing to themselves, if there's a way to hurt themselves they'll find it.

Grizz

 

[KePet]

Yup, People that don't know better are quick to make assumptions.

Grizz

This is very true as well. Unless you actually se it - it didn't happen, and even then sometimes be skeptical. Two wolves seen in the area. Animals are hurt. They claim bite marks on the animals, but who has told them this, or confirmed it. The "bites" on the front don't sound like wolves, as has been mentioned. Often people jump to conclusions, and not always the right ones, and it's easier to blame "The Big Bad Wolf"

 

[MiG25]

Bites on the front end sound exactly like another horse did it.

 

[tripoli99]

Liberal Farmers....pick your pet lady, your horses or the wolves.

 

[John Y Cannuck]

I have no doubt that wolves are capable of taking on a horse, but I doubt they would do so unless forced by starvation. They like easier prey. My neighbor has horses he summers on an old farm across the road from me. I am in a very high wolf area. These horses have been there for years, every summer until hunting season. Never been touched. He visits them frequently, but no one lives on that old overgrown farm. If the bites are indeed canine, I'd be looking for dogs, but I suspect it's been a fight between horses.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

Wolves are smart enough not to mess with animals that can aim rearward kicks that can break a jaw and effectively end their lives. Unless starving wild animals don't generally take those chances.
If it was wolves they likely ran the horses into the fence to "capture" them for the kill.
More likely is that the horses got "triggered" into flight mode and wound up in the fence on their own.
If the mare stuck in the fence was new to the herd, the other horses are the likely culprit.

 

[KodiakHntr]

I yelled at an Alberta timberwolf while elk hunting this year and it kept coming towards me (not stalking me but wanted to travel past me on an angle) and it didn't care. As soon as I took a pot shot (200 yards offhand and I missed) it took off at a full run off to the side. They learn quickly about what is real danger.

You yelled at a wolf that was 200 yards out because it was walking in your general direction?

 

[Bland]

Wolf (dog ) bites look radically different than a horse bite. Used to give them to my brother .

 

[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]

Strange that no one suggested livestock guardian dogs.

 

[starvin]

I'm a cattle guy and have no love for wolves, go ahead and pin it on them but I'm a skeptic. What wolves want they usually get in my experience with them. Usually only find a greasy spot in the grass. If it was a "training exercise" the tails would be gone, pups love to hang off a tail. Neighbor runs a big yearling operation and was at his wits end a few years ago with wolves. Ran 3 maremma pyrenees until one day only 2 showed up severely injured. The only thing that worked rhymes with "boison".
My guess is fence cut or black bear.

 

[Boomer]

I yelled at an Alberta timberwolf while elk hunting this year and it kept coming towards me (not stalking me but wanted to travel past me on an angle) and it didn't care. As soon as I took a pot shot (200 yards offhand and I missed) it took off at a full run off to the side. They learn quickly about what is real danger.

Sorta poor shooting, but it happens. The last one I shot at was closer than I thought, on the sea ice, and I shot over his back, but I didn't try conversing with him.