Starving Wolf

[mooseslayer]

He is a picture of a wolf that we had to take on the lake last year. Sorry we didn't clean him up for pictures but no one wanted to touch him.

Kids were out sliding down a hill and onto the lake when the wolf showed up and started circling us, aways out but still circling. He was eyeballing my kids so I eyeballed him through the scope. He was starved and we weren't sure what he was going to do. His K9's were wore down pretty good and he looked like mange was setting in. His head was massive. Booted from the pack I assume.....

[nekred]

There is a good wolf!...

[heavy chevy]

Thats an oldie for sure. Where abouts?

[mooseslayer]

Right on Rainbow Lake

[moosecaller]

mooseslayer
is that rainbow lake west of high level? If so thats my old stomping grounds, Spent 10 yrs up there 85 to 95
MC

[Dakota369]

Good job, it looks like you put a quick end to what could of been a long lingering death.

[mooseslayer]

It is Rainbow Lake west of High Level. The wolves are thicker than hair on a dogs back here this winter. A few guys got lucky and took some wolves but there is a lot more to go. There are at least three packs hanging around our area with 6-8 wolves a bunch. Had a couple in town as well. Gotta watch the kids when they are out playing....

[Gunmedic]

Ditto, Dakota 369. Gunmedic.

[abrigger]

Wolves don't eat kids, I don't think you have much to worry about. Unless they are outside playing with dead animals.

[-TROUT-]

I have a hard time believing wolfs wont eat kids, a wolf in that state will do anything to get food. same asa cougar or bear, they will kill/attack what is available and in desperate times will go after whatever is closest.

[catnthehat]

Wolves don't eat kids, I don't think you have much to worry about. Unless they are outside playing with dead animals.
Don't kid yourself, an old and starving wolf will and HAS gone after adults, kids would not be an issue for it , it would take one in a heartbeat....
Cat

[abrigger]

I was thinking of a healthy wolf population would not threaten humans.
But, as you mention a starving animal would very well resort to any food, I stand corrected.

[Tori]

Don't kid yourself, an old and starving wolf will and HAS gone after adults, kids would not be an issue for it , it would take one in a heartbeat....
Cat
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[ElkCanyon]

I was thinking of a healthy wolf population would not threaten humans. .........

I would ask my brother about that one when we were calling elk about 5 years ago. Camo and unscented they thought he was lunch and not human. He says he still has nightmares occasionally / within 8 feet or so when they all howled.

I was about 300 yards away. When I got to him, he was white as a ghost - I got one on the way and the rest scattered. He doesn't hunt anymore and although he says not, I think it's a contributing factor.

[59whiskers]

Worked up in the Rainbow Lake area in the summer of 1977. Wolves and bears would come right into camp looking for scraps of food at night or when we were gone cause you would see their tracks in the mud. Lots of wolves up there.

[abrigger]

Actually I don't think I buy what I am selling.

Last year I was Elk hunting. I made my way out to a ridge overlooking a nice valley where we call from.
I get down there about 1hr before sunrise. I let out a few cow calls.
What seemed like 50 yards in front of me, I hear a pack of wolves begin to howl.
I gotta tell ya, I had the bow on my back and the sawed off guage out so quick. I felt like I wore my panties out hunting...as I backout out of the spot quickly and hauled ass out of there.
I talk big about how wolves are no threat...but did I ever tuck tail and run when I was in the situation.

[ElkCanyon]

My brother said he never even heard them come in until they were around him.

Just a "whoosh" sound from the grass and they were there.

[Muskeg]

Actually I don't think I buy what I am selling.

Last year I was Elk hunting. I made my way out to a ridge overlooking a nice valley where we call from.
I get down there about 1hr before sunrise. I let out a few cow calls.
What seemed like 50 yards in front of me, I hear a pack of wolves begin to howl.
I gotta tell ya, I had the bow on my back and the sawed off guage out so quick. I felt like I wore my panties out hunting...as I backout out of the spot quickly and hauled ass out of there.
I talk big about how wolves are no threat...but did I ever tuck tail and run when I was in the situation.

I had that same thing happen to me last season also.. but I never had a gun with me.. and was a couple miles from my truck hunting deer. Hairs stand up pretty high.. I think I will be carrying something with me from now on after seeing too many bears last season, and having a near miss with one at work 2 miles also away from a chopper pick up in the muskeg and only having a frikkin Crescent wrench.. Fortunately I was downwind and he couldn't find out what was sneaking away..lol

[avb3]

Was hunting by myself up near Slave Lake about 15 years ago for moose.

Came near the top of a hill overlooking a clearing before sun up where I wanted to sit, and heard a wolf howling within 200 feet of the left of me. My hair went up on the back of my neck, but I kept telling myself, wolves don't attack people, don't worry, be happy.

I changed my mind when wolf No. 1's buddy decided to answer... and he was 100 feet to the right of me!!!

Bullet was chambered, shot went into the air, another bullet was chambered, and I sat in the middle of the clearing listening and looking and listening. I never heard any more from them, but man, it sure made my sphincter pucker that morning. If I was not awake before the cacophony started, I sure was awake after that.

[manitoban]

sort of foolish to kid yourself that a wolf wont eat a kid. And how many recent coyote attacks have happened in the last few years? enough that i wouldnt think twice about a starving wolf circling within rifle range. No doubt others agree.

[addictedtohunting]

Wolves will try for a child, but I think its very unlikely they would try for a grown adult. Yet a Pack of wolves could be a whole different story! I would'nt give them the opportunity.Heres a couple of reports of wolf attacks.

In Ontario, Canada where thousands of people visit Algonquin Provincial Park-and many of them come to see or hear wolves-five people have been bit in the past twelve years. During August 1996, a wolf dragged 12-year-old Zachariah Delventhal from his sleeping bag. This particular wolf, prior to attacking Zachariah, had entered campsites and taken things such as a backpack, tennis shoe and other human items.

Two years later, on September 25, 1998, another Algonquin wolf circled a little girl and despite blasts of pepper spray, didn't leave until the child entered a trailer. Two days after that, a nineteen-month-old boy sat playing in the middle of camp, with his parents twenty feet away. The father thought he saw a dog emerge from the brush. He turned away for a moment and when he looked back, he saw his son in the jaws of a wolf. The wolf held the boy for a moment and then tossed him three feet. A local newspaper quoted the parents, "It wasn't hit and run. He hit him [the infant] and then it was wait and see. He [the wolf] circled the picnic table a number of times before he was scared off enough to leave." The infant received two stitches for minor injuries.
Misinformation
At the end of one of the articles about the Yakutat incident, reporters Elizabeth Manning and Craig Medred wrote, "In Canada, at least one person has been killed by wolves in the past 50 years. A 24-year-old woman was attacked by a pack of five at the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve in Ontario in 1996." Had we not known about this incident, we would've come away believing that wild wolves killed the woman when in fact it was a captive pack. This is but one example among many, of how misinformation begets misperceptions that give rise to disproportionate fears.

On April 26, 2000, a six and nine year old boy cut down small trees as they played at being loggers on the outskirts of a logging camp near Yakutat in southeastern Alaska.

Upon seeing a wolf, the children fled. The wolf took down six-year-old John Stenglein and bit him on the back, legs and buttocks. A neighbor's golden retriever rushed to the rescue but the wolf drove the dog back and then set upon John again. The boy's cries brought adults who drove the wolf away. John received seven stitches and five surgical closure staples.


During the evening of July 1, 2000, on the shores of Vargas Island, British Columbia, a wolf entered the campsite of a kayaking group. They chased the wolf away. Members of the group also spotted another wolf that apparently hung back from the bolder wolf. At 2 a.m., 23-year-old Scott Langevin awoke with a small dark wolf tugging on his sleeping bag. "I yelled to try to spook it off, and I kicked at it," Scott said. "It backed up a bit, but then it just lunged on top of me, and it started biting away through my sleeping bag."

He rolled in an effort to situate the fire between him and the wolf, but the animal jumped on his back and bit him about the head. The noise woke his friends and they drove the wolf away. The wounds to Scott's head required 50 stitches.


In all of the previous incidents, the offending wolves were killed. Autopsies indicated healthy animals.

[deerassassin]

good job on shootin better to get it over with quick then lettin the poor bugger suffer.