please take action to protect wolves

that people are thinking of wolves as killers of babies and little old Grandmothers outrages me. There have been some problems for ranchers, but they are reimbursed for any losses. Wolves are a very important part of our ecosystem.
Please take action to help protect them. Thank you for your help.

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/actionfund_wolf3_0

but try

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/actionfund_wolf3_0407

I somehow think the parents of the child killed by a wolf in Alaska just a few years back might have an issue with your position.

they are predators, as the Good Lord intended them to be- like a cougar or a lion. That is a very rare thing, I would think, though to have caused a human death. Do you have any links for that story or for human deaths by wolves statistics?

And by the way, welcome to DU!

killed by dogs in the same time frame? Should we wipe out dogs as well?

http://www.wolftrust.org.uk/a-wkp5-linnell-results.html



Wolves Killing People


3b. Results

Results In A Nutshell

What did the Linnell Report find? The great majority of fatal attacks on humans were by rabid wolves. There were few fatal predatory attacks on humans and none in North America. No one was killed when wolves attacked defensively. Moreover, examining records of the last 50 years the researchers could only find cases of 17 people killed in Europe and Russia and none in North America.

I think that there is too much 'wolf hysteria' and personally, I find them to be beautiful, majestic animals. What is also sad is that wolf hybrid dogs are oftentimes killed, if they are identified as such. I have a friend that has a wolf hybrid, got from a GI going to Iraq and they found out after the fact that she is part wolf. Some of her wolf traits are coming out and we have learned horrible facts about the hysteria that follows wolf hybrids, also.

I think we should be able to shoot them, like vermin. With bazookas. No license.

Of course they'd have to be parked cars, with nobody inside, and you would have to make sure the surrounding area was clear of people. But you have to do that whenever you fire a shot.

Maybe we could start out easy, only allowing unattended cars with obnoxious car alarms that go off at the slightest touch to be shot.

Boom!

And then cars that park over the lines, double parked cars, "I have a very small penis!" cars, cars with obnoxious "terrorist hunters license" bumper stickers... etc., etc., etc.

And then when all the cars are extinct we can go after bigger game, with even bigger guns. How about the trucks that deliver cigarettes?

BAM! Bagged that puppy as soon as the driver stepped into the store. Don't breathe the smoke!

Yep, wolves are not friendly. At best wild wolves stay away from people. Everything in nature has it's own dangers, a little mushroom can kill a person who mistakes it for something edible.

But it wouldn't make any sense to shoot mushrooms. It doesn't make any sense to shoot wolves either.

Yeah, and I think that we should shoot those nasty mushrooms. I'm saying that after my two dogs were poisoned by those innocent looking little 'shrooms. $1200 and a couple of pumped out stomachs, they're fine.

Cats kill more people? Now, are we talking serious big cats like cougars, etc. or domestic felines? I'm saying that looking around at my um... numerous cats that live at my house. I will look at them a little more cautiously if they are the culprits. I know that their bites are easily infected, like a dogs. Being a postal worker, I know that if you receive a dog bite, they automatically give you antibiotics, and call the cops on the dog.

Very interesting topic.