Lets just remember, before all the fear-mongering and outright lies come out in even more force, that there has been 1, repeat, 1 fatal wolf attack in Canada since we started actually recording and investigating such attacks. The wolves involved in that attack had been habituated by a garbage dump, and he was walking alone at night.
As for the "1 dead wolf = 20 more deer for us to shoot" thats total bull. Do you actually know what wolves eat? try examining some wolf crap you find, its not usually chock full of moose hair and wedding rings, its a mixture, a lot of small bones, mostly mice, some rabbit maybe, if the pack is lucky maybe some deer hair might be evident. Do wolves eat deer, yes, mostly sick, and old, or young and slow. Do wolves eat moose and elk, see " eat deer". Do wolves kill cattle, sometimes, kinda the same behavior though with deer, old or young, sick and slow. Most cattle kills have some special circumstance's to them as well, ie calving, or new born, or maybe an injury. Also, farmers that find a dead cow, that could have died from any number of ailments or circumstances, that the coyotes have then been chewing on for a night, blame it on the evil wolves. "Killed 10 cows last night I tell ya what, ripped the throats out, drank there blood, and left them there, golly, better start shooting every canine like creature i see!" For lack of deer see winterkill.
Now i get to watch the flames roll in.
