My friend and I were hiking up here just north of Cavendish towards Deer Creek, and we were doing a hiking loop in an old logging area. Very bad idea to jog or run in wilderness areas with known predators. When you run, any predator that sees you is going to have it's "hunting drive" engaged, and think you're a fleeing prey. Not only that, but they were also running on the trail. ![]() There was already a warning posted on the entrance to the trail stating that a person's dog had been attacked and killed by wolves there earlier, yet they still went on the trail. The women who were taking their dogs along the trail when they had an encounter with wolves (regular variety, not giant) were quite stupid. None of the guy's seem to show any sort of strain in their facial expressions either as they hold the wolves up, which would be highly unlikely if they were actually bodily lifting a 150-225 pound animal. Especially the one where the guy is actually holding the wolf up off the ground, where it's feet barely even scrape the dirt. All of the wolves are in the same position (Being bodily help upright), and considering how big and heavy these wolves supposedly are, it'd be quite a task to hold them up in that position for any length of time. I don't approve of senseless killing but I deffinitely don't want to put an animals life above a humans. I realize we need to not go crazy about this but doing nothing doesn't seem to be an option. They are responsible for killing 120 sheep on just one ranch in Montana in 2011. These wolves are preditors and are agressive. The Idaho dept of fish and game website has the stats on the real deal. An animal that size that travels in packs of up to 20 and they are not affraid of humans, infact they stalk humans. There are estimates of up to 2,000 in just Idaho alone. ![]() If you check with the fish and game they will tell you the truth. Even a couple of ladies with their dogs walking on a rual road were confronted by a pack that scared them half to death. ![]() If you check out Youtube you'll see video's of people being stalked by these animals while out in the woods. This might seem suspicous if it were just the one photo, but if you google large or giant Idaho wolves you'll see maybe a dozen photo's of hunters with these huge wolves. Sometimes they are so entertaining that I have to share them, like this post I wrote about Why You Don't Kill Black Snakes! My father in law sends me the most random and entertaining email forwards. Are you looking for more fun animal-related content? When elk are calving they will kill the calves just for fun after they have had all they can eat and leave the rest to rot. ![]() The amount of animals they take are just a partial portion of what they need to eat. Think about what kind of appetite a dozen of these must have and remember they are the only predator in our nation that kills for fun along with for food. Can you even imagine being out by yourself and having 8 to 12 of these monsters surround you! If you are going into the Blues, Cascades, or up above Spokane hiking, game scouting, mushroom hunting, or something else you better start carrying a side arm. It’s just a matter of time before one of our granola loving green peace hikers goes out on a hike and runs into a pack of these killers and becomes part of the food chain. I wonder if our city dwelling tree hugger society that never has left a city really understands the impact of these killing machines. There was a reason these things where exterminated nationwide. The big question you have to ask yourself is why? These massive wolves are not the native wolf that lived in our area 100 years ago. It is just amazing how big they are.ĭeer, elk and livestock killing machines. Wish I could show you a few hundred more pictures. Just a few of the wolves killed this year with the Idaho wolf tag.
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