Wolves In Southern Ontario

Grafton ON.
About an hour east of Toronto, and within SIGHT of lake Ontario. I wouldn't believe, it but I saw it with my own eyes, July 2006, home on the weekend I was driving along a side road in the sticks, and saw it trotting across a field, toward the road, I slowed down & stopped, & it crossed the road less than 30metres in front of me. Never stopped, just stared at me while it crossed. I've seen a lot of coyotes, and shot one that weighed more then 80lbs, but this was a wolf. Mangy, skinny, but no mistaking it. It was HUGE, grey/black, and there's no mistaking the face, especially when it's staring right at you!
As it's been posted already, wolfs do interbreed with Coyotes. That's one of Algonquin Park's problems, they're trying to protect their wolf population, but the dogs just can't keep their hormones in check :p
On another note, apparently there was a Mountain lion den only 20minutes away from where I saw the wolf. From talking to a friend who is a bit of a nature nut, a cougar that was released by the MNR made it's way down to the Colbourne area, & shacked up somewhere, guess it liked beef. :p
 
I have seen wolves and coyotes here and there from North of Bowmanville, East to Goulbourne TWP and north from there. They are around, maybe not in great quantity but they are out there. (Cue X-Files music)
 
My brother owns a large acreage near Glencoe and had claimed to see three wolves on it. I told him at the time that they were yotes or dogs as I've hunted that property for the past ten years and never seen one. However this year during for a late season bow hunt and was sitting quiet in my pick with engine off up trying to warm up and glanced in my rear view mirrror and saw a big blk /dark loppy legged wolf. It was no dog or yote thats for sure.
 
From info below
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jzgurski/coyote.html

1. Coyotes are generally smaller than wolves - most coyotes weigh between 20 and 40 pounds and most wolves weigh between 50 and 150 pounds.

2. Wolves range in colour from jet black to pure white, and coyotes are generally a buffy grizzled grey and are never black or white

3.Coyotes also have narrower snouts than wolves and their ears are larger relative to their heads.


1. The one in my pic ran a hair under 65lbs, put's it in the wolf category.

2. I missed (or rather hit but got into the 2' of snow off the lake:mad:) a MUCH (I'm gonna guess 4" taller & 20+ lbs heavier) larger black one from the same pack two days earlier. I would also suggest that would put it in the wolf category.

3. I have shot coyotes & the narrower nose is prominent in them, this one had a thicker nose, & if you look close at the pic the ears are small compared to it's head.

I know we can argue forever but I'm gonna call it a wolf :wave:
 
Tim H said:
Grafton ON.
About an hour east of Toronto, and within SIGHT of lake Ontario. I wouldn't believe, it but I saw it with my own eyes, July 2006, home on the weekend I was driving along a side road in the sticks, and saw it trotting across a field, toward the road, I slowed down & stopped, & it crossed the road less than 30metres in front of me. Never stopped, just stared at me while it crossed. I've seen a lot of coyotes, and shot one that weighed more then 80lbs, but this was a wolf. Mangy, skinny, but no mistaking it. It was HUGE, grey/black, and there's no mistaking the face, especially when it's staring right at you!
As it's been posted already, wolfs do interbreed with Coyotes. That's one of Algonquin Park's problems, they're trying to protect their wolf population, but the dogs just can't keep their hormones in check :p
On another note, apparently there was a Mountain lion den only 20minutes away from where I saw the wolf. From talking to a friend who is a bit of a nature nut, a cougar that was released by the MNR made it's way down to the Colbourne area, & shacked up somewhere, guess it liked beef. :p
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a coyote that wieghted 80lbs????! jesus christ, was it a pet? That is MASSIVE and I'd say it was more wolf then coyote. Biggest coyote i've ever seen weighted 52lbs and that thing was HUGE. About twice the size of the full grown female we got that day
 
The local newspaper has had a field day with the possibility of the MNR introducing a pack of wolves in the Lancaster area (20 km's east of Cornwall) because of the overflowing deer population.
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I love these ones. The MNR doesnt have enough money for CO to put gas in their trucks but yet they are funding covert-ops mountain lion and wolf relocations.:D
 
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My family has seen plenty on our farm in Tosorontio Twp. just west of Borden/Angus. Anyone who questions this can ask anyone in the area. I however have not seen a wolf in 10 years. I still see the odd coyote though.
 
Seen a black wolf or very large Coyote this winter just outside of Angus Borden myself so I don't think this lady was on crack
 
DVXDUDE said:
a coyote that wieghted 80lbs????! jesus christ, was it a pet? That is MASSIVE and I'd say it was more wolf then coyote. Biggest coyote i've ever seen weighted 52lbs and that thing was HUGE. About twice the size of the full grown female we got that day
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81 pounds exactly, according to a scale at my buddy's farm. 5'9" from nose to tail. No pics, but I still have the hide & skull in my freezer, gonna have him rug-ified. We guess that there might be some in-breeding with wolves in him, but the colour, shape, ears, everything looks like a coyote. Shot him with a 300Win mag, at about 60M while deer hunting in Tamworth, just SE of Kaladar.
PS, those new XP3 bullets from winchester really work; 6" exit hole!
 
Years ago when my family had a cottage in the South end of Muskoka (West of Hwy 11 and North of Severn Bridge, there used to be lots of evidence of coyotes. A cousin of mine shot what he called a wolf-coyote cross that's mounted on his wall. I believe that he shot it in the woods south of the Severn River in what was then referred to as Matchedash Township. He claimed that there were a number of wolves in the area at the time, which does not sound all that far fetched when you consider that bears are common there, and a number of moose have been known to inhabit the area.

While I would not normally consider the Bordon/Angus area a magnet for wolves, there's certainly no shortage of deer and turkeys in the area to feast upon, plus some reasonably large tracts of land on base, and further north in the Minnesing Swamp. I also recall being warned about bear sightings in the area when on summer training there in 1996. If bears and wolves can regularly be found as close by as Matchedash township just a bit North of Orillia, is it that far fetched for the odd animal to make their way down as far south as Angus?

I would not consider someone on crack for suggesting the possibility of wolves or even bears being found that far South, though I cannot imagine large established populations in that area. Naturally, most of the "wolf" sightings are likely to be large coyotes, but I would be hesitant to say that none of them really are wolves.
 
No it wasn't a yot. this thing was big. Almost up to my waist. Ran by me about 20 feet away from my post. Some yahoos dog was chasing it.

This is a quote by CDNGUNNER.

Wolves don't run from a dog, they eat dogs!
 
I have seen Timber wolves on a few occasions, up close. Also have seen several Eastern wolves, up close, with bullet holes.:)
 
Last November in Deer season one of the guys in my group was sitting on a hill watching this hollow when an Easter wolf (or Bush Wolf he called it) went across the clearing. He thought he hasn't seen anything yet this week and was happy to have seen some wildlife. The wolf past and he kept watching for deer about 15 mins later he heard something coming behind him down the hill, there was the same Wolf nose down tracking my buddy down his trail. My Friend upon seeing that he was being stalked stood up, the Wolf stopped now about 15 feet away and snarled and curled its lip up at him. Well now thats odd so my friend shot at it, and it took off. We couldn't find any blood, but the 3 deer that we did get last season the gut pils were total cleaned up by the next morning, no hair not even a leaf with blood on it, so we figure there is more than one around or a bear got into it? By the way we are in Kilworth Ontario about 20 mins north of Orillia.
 
H4831 said:
No it wasn't a yot. this thing was big. Almost up to my waist. Ran by me about 20 feet away from my post. Some yahoos dog was chasing it.

This is a quote by CDNGUNNER.

Wolves don't run from a dog, they eat dogs!
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They do when there is a bunch of hunters running the dog(s??)
 
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