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 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:46:58 -0500, penny  wrote: 
  
 >>Oooh! We have wolves here too. They are eating the large numbers of 
 >>deer we have but there aren't enough of them. OF course they are 
 >>eating other wildlife and farmers livestock, not to mention pets, but 
 >>we get along pretty well with wolves... 
 >>Pretty animal til they come into your yard and kill and eat your 
 >>labrador retrieiver. 
 >> 
 >What a shame! It must have been hunger that motivated them to do that. 
 >I read Farley Mowat's book, NEVER CRY WOLF a very long time ago.  He 
 >pictured wolves as far less threatening than the world had previously 
 >perceived them. 
  
 Way back when I was in University Mr. Mowat's book was discovered to 
 be a mix of fact and writers license. Entertaining but still a novel. 
 And wolves are not very threatening. There have been very few recorded 
 wolf attacks in Canada, and even fewer confirmed. Th 
  
  The wolf is not that far removed from the dog and the two species 
 will cross with fertile offspring. The only issue anyone may have with 
 a wolf is if they run into a very aggressive alpha male, and even 
 those will defer to a human. 
  
 BTW: I have always enjoyed Mr. Mowat's books but having lived in a sub 
 arctic environment for most of my life there are some parts that I 
 accept with a grain of salt. 
  
  
  
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