Timber Wolf

It cracks me up listening to how people claim wolves are wiping out the west and making it terrible for cattle ranchers. Give me a friggin break, we have 3 times as many wolves in Minnesota then any western state and guess what we still have sheep farms, dairy farms, beef cattle and hunting dogs too. A wolf is alot like a sasquatch they even live in places that they don't really exist and kill livestock their too. Believe it or not life does go on with wolves in the area.

Tink, there's no wolves in your area?! Kinda like the DNR guy who went to a friends of a friends house and told them their WHITE call ducks were mallards and they were going to send someone to confiscate them? *giggles*.

Yeah, a lot of livestock kills are dogs, but, the ones near me that I wrote about *are* wolves. They've seen the pack, etc. We actually had a small pack of husky/wolf crosses that some people just up and abandoned when they moved, they turned wild and wreaked havoc on the deer population. They're gone now, and luckily stayed near their "home" so didn't venture over here.

LOL Rayna, it looks like we have a few DNR employees posting on this thread! Actually in 1976 wolves down here was unusuall but thier rotting carcasses certainly confirmed that they WERE wolves. (SSS) It was a drought year and we think that forced the pack south. A local realter saw at least 7 running in a pack. I am aware of at least 2 that were killed and it wouldn't suprise me to learn that the rest met similar fates. Of 35 calves we found a partial carcass of one of them.

I have NO problem with wolves and I like seeing them but when they threaten your livlyhood they need to be controlled. Ever notice that the people who say we should never kill a wolf invariably never live in wolf territory?

Good post Jasoninmn.
They needed to be managed like any other Animal by hunting.We have no Parks big enough not to manage them.
Myself if they were taking alot of my Livestock I would be taking some of them.

Yep, and every year the DNR kills several dozen problem wolves who kill livestock.