Good point. Could we see attacks by wolves and coywolves on lone pedestrians walking down deserted streets in metro areas at 2 A.M. in fifty years?

Black wolves (such as those frequently found in YNP) are descended from dogs brought from Asia by the first Americans. It would seem that, as in Arizona, the ESA has been protecting hybrids all along.

If you kill one that is looking to make your yard its new territory, the chances are the others in the pack that did not see him go down will be right back. A dead wolf is just another dead animal to them– HOWEVER if you wound one with, say, a .38 snubby cause that is what you had to shoot through the screen with at the end of the couch, the wounded one (that I am sure will eventually die) will be a warning to the rest of them that you will never see again, or at least I haven’t for a couple of years.

Shooting to kill did not work. They will be back very soon if you do. Wounding one gives them all an education in who is at the top of the food chain. I told this to everyone I know locally and it is holding very true. Keep it in mind if they decide to get up close and personal.

That’s exactly what I was thinking while reading the steps, and cougars were the animal that came to mind.

This’ll sound idealist, but if we want wolves to stay away from people they need to learn to fear and respect people.

We’re told that wolves fear people, are too afraid to go near us. But what happens when we stop killing them on sight but instead leave them be?

That pressure is now off the animals, they’re not being hunted by humans [persecuted in enviro-speak], so they have no reason to run from us. Animals individually and collectively discover that, hey, humans aren’t attacking any more and get cosy with this idea, and start taking moves that initially was risky to survival, discover there’s no risk any more, and try something else that could be deemed riskier.

And. We let them. Like we do with cougars and now we’ve got them [cougars] in the backyard. With people complaining and interactions are mentioned as increasing [like we've heard, at least half if not more than half of all the cougar attacks are recent].

Wolves were not a threat when they were afraid of us, and maybe we could start teaching them that, you come too close, unpleasant things happen [wildlife biologists can decide what's unpleasant enough for a wolf to convince it to stay away], and maybe you’d be better off to keep your distance?

If they learned to think we weren’t threatening they can learn to keep their distance too.

[I live in Ontario—far away from cougars, and maybe wolves and bears, but still...]

I have to believe that each large predator we know of employs the same basic tactics and to the depth of their utilization is probably determined by the size of their brain.

In the article where it talks of the wolf being on people’s decks (verandas), I recall several stories and photos showing mountain lions and bears on people’s decks looking in the windows, etc.

I guess now I’ll think a bit differently when I see or hear about such activities.

but I find it very hard to beleve that we are populated with so many people that know about as much as I do about the wolf.

they have this fantasy in there head

how could the wolf be that bad

but they dont have any personality the are just programed to servive and if you happen to become a part those thoughts it wont matter what your thoughts are you just might become the next pray.