Why people hate wolves.

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After reading the canceled wolf hunting trapping anger towards wolves (which i feel is wrong) i will quote farley mohat . Love his books and he lived in the wild following a pack of wolves for a year to try and stop the depleting caribou heard and if wolves where responsible.

This is my favourite quote his conclusion.

" he concluded we have doomed the wolf not for what it is but what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be, a savage ruthless killer which is not reality. We have made it a scape goat for are own sins. " he discovered a majority of wolves diet was small.game mice moles rabbits not caribou.

Well said sir.
 
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Who hates wolves ? Very few get the chance to even see a wolf (excluding people that spend ALOT of time in the bush or the far north) most that think they do are fooled by a coyote or a big dog.
I think what people hate is others telling them what to do or taking away privileges or the trial and error wildlife management experiments
 
Don't know where you live, but out west here, the depleted moose and deer populations due to wolf predation might be one reason.
 
No offence - perhaps you live in Toronto, or possibly Port Hope. Judging by your posts, you're relatively new to the world of hunting and the outdoors. Perhaps in time, you'll realize the folly of using Farley Mowat as a barometer.
 
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its a shame that my buddy has to keep he rifle ready 100% of the time he is home due to them killing his sheep, they have even attempted (unsuccessfully) to take of of his miniature horses all because of his "fear of wolves". i dont see a fear of them where i live, they are treated like the nuisance they are.
 
cosmic said:
No offence - perhaps you live in Toronto, or possibly Port Hope. Judging by your posts, you're relatively new to the world of hunting and the outdoors. Perhaps in time, you'll realize the folly of using Farley Mowat as a barometer.
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I cannot believe anyone with any kind of bush experience would ever believe or quote Farley Mowat. My grandfather like H4831 spent most of his adult life in the bush both gleaning a living from it and pursuing big game and the only thing he disliked as muchas a wolf was Farley Mowat. Stupid SOB was his term for him. He used to say he never spent any time following a pack of wolves except in his mind from his writing desk.
 
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I cannot believe anyone with any kind of bush experience would ever believe or quote Farley Mowat. My grandfather like H4831 spent most of his adult life in the bush both gleaning a living from it and pursuing big game and the only thing he disliked as muchas a wolf was Farley Mowat. Stupid SOB was his term for him. He used to say he never spent any time following a pack of wolves except in his mind from his writing desk.
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I had the misfortune of meeting Mr Mowat years ago - I wasn't impressed. Egotistical and verbose, a bad combination in my books.
 
I live in Port Hope. I knew Farley. I know many people who knew him much better than I. He was a cantankerous old fart who loved to stir up trouble and never let facts or proprietary get in the way. To accept his writing at face value would be a mistake. To accept his philosophy (if it could be called that) about nature would also be a mistake.

I think there are few on this board who "hate" wolves. Some, because of the life they live, come into conflict with wolves and do what they feel necessary. As the wolves would. LOL

I don't hate raccoons or skunks or mice in my basement. But sometimes I need to get rid of them.
 
Wolves are a beautiful animal, as are Cougars, and Lynx and Bobcats and Grizzlies......until they try and eat you, or your dog that's your best friend, or the sheep you've raised all damn summer to sell for profit!!!!

A wolf will never be the surrogate for my feelings of guilt for my sins. He's hungry, he eats. I too eat when I'm hungry. Wolves don't go around killing indiscriminately like some of our homo sapien brethren do in the name of religion. Farley Mowat was smoking something when he wrote that, sorry dude.

GGG
 
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its a shame that my buddy has to keep he rifle ready 100% of the time he is home due to them killing his sheep, they have even attempted (unsuccessfully) to take of of his miniature horses all because of his "fear of wolves". i dont see a fear of them where i live, they are treated like the nuisance they are.
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I would hazard to guess that the wolves are actually coyote and/or coy dogs. I am not saying that wolves may not be responsible but in areas of human habitation/encroachment the
coyote populations are increasing and most likely are the culprits.
As far as wolves, they are the balancers in nature...if prey populations increase so do wolf numbers. As far as them being indiscriminate killers I would have to overall disagree..they kill to eat and survive not just for the sake of killing.....people fall into this category.
As far as Farley, most comments are true..having also lived in Port Hope, and meeting him and seeing him in the local Pub. With this said you do not have to study wolves to make observations.
 
cosmic said:
No offence - perhaps you live in Toronto, or possibly Port Hope. Judging by your posts, you're relatively new to the world of hunting and the outdoors. Perhaps in time, you'll realize the folly of using Farley Mowat as a barometer.
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x2, Mowat should have stuck to writing historical books, for entertainment value. ;)

Grizz
 
freeordie said:
I would hazard to guess that the wolves are actually coyote and/or coy dogs. I am not saying that wolves may not be responsible but in areas of human habitation/encroachment the
coyote populations are increasing and most likely are the culprits.
As far as wolves, they are the balancers in nature...if prey populations increase so do wolf numbers. As far as them being indiscriminate killers I would have to overall disagree..they kill to eat and survive not just for the sake of killing.....people fall into this category.
As far as Farley, most comments are true..having also lived in Port Hope, and meeting him and seeing him in the local Pub. With this said you do not have to study wolves to make observations.
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Give your head a shake, Buddy.

Grizz
 
freeordie said:
I would hazard to guess that the wolves are actually coyote and/or coy dogs. I am not saying that wolves may not be responsible but in areas of human habitation/encroachment the
coyote populations are increasing and most likely are the culprits.
As far as wolves, they are the balancers in nature...if prey populations increase so do wolf numbers. As far as them being indiscriminate killers I would have to overall disagree..they kill to eat and survive not just for the sake of killing.....people fall into this category.
As far as Farley, most comments are true..having also lived in Port Hope, and meeting him and seeing him in the local Pub. With this said you do not have to study wolves to make observations.
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Yes I agree with "Gizz" give the head a shake..!

Here where I live wolves are very common, there in my yard around the house trying to entice the dogs into the bush weekly. Timber wolves in the 100 Ib. + - range We have a Lab and Rottweiler's, so we are not talking small dogs here. They are wary now as they have had run in's with the .243. Wolves are opportunists, survivalists, they kill to eat, and they are always hungry, so there always trying to kill something from mice to moose. "Balancers of nature" bull####...! They will, an do kill indiscriminately at every opportunity, period, it is what they do. Your house cat is no different. You can feed your house cat until he is stuffed, open the door and he will go out and catch and kill bird just because he can. It is in ingrained him. Wolves are no different.
Farley Mowat was novelist, and a self made character as it sold more books, he made a decent living from writing trendy, entertaining bull####.
 
freeordie said:
Question.....WHY??
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Because believe it or not they can and do take livestock and will kill indiscrimnately. You tell anyone who has seen multiple kills never fed upon they dont kill indiscriminately and you'll be a laughing stock. I knew a farmer in Matheson, Ont who lost 23 sheep/lambs in one night to wolves. And though I have never been witness to a multiple deer kill site my Grandfather has a few times. Back in the 40's when he was a dam tender at Frederickhouse Lake he once came across 11 deer killed on the ice by a wolf pack. He said none had been fed upon or were the rest of the winter except by ravens and fox. He hated the damned things.
 
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