Shocking Wolf Attacks - Surviving A Wolf Attack

Wolves are back after successful re-introduction efforts in multiple parts of the U.S. Booming numbers of Northern Gray Wolf packs are bringing increased clashes with humans and the occasional horror stories. And it’s poised to get worse as pack numbers increase and encroach on communities. How to Survive in Wolf Country.

by Mark Lawrence, Copyright © SecretsofSurvival.com. All rights reserved.

Wolves have stalked children at rural Idaho bus stops in recent months. Increased wolf sightings around other Idaho towns have communities worried about the safety of both children and pets. Citizens have taken to carrying pistols when walking dogs and even taking children to bus stops.

Here’s the skinny on wolves: They are efficient killers, killing large game animals like moose, elk, caribou, deer, and bighorn sheep as well as a consistent diet of small mammals like boar, birds, and lizards, eating up to 20 pounds of meat in one sitting. They most often travel and hunt in packs ranging from approximately 6 – 10 wolves, sometimes larger.

With that said, environmentalists and animal rights advocates want people to believe that wolves aren’t a threat to people. Ranchers of course don’t agree with that — but typically ranchers are looking at the continuous slaughter of livestock by area wolves.

Wolf advocates don’t understand what happens when wolf populations increase and natural food sources dwindle and these wolves start crossing paths with humans. If you spend any time at or near an area of the country where wolves have been re-introduced or packs have simply traveled into nearby wilderness areas (such as Washington State wolf packs heading into Oregon or North Carolina wolves heading into Tennessee), you need to read this.

It may save your life.

At least 23 states now have known wolf populations.
 

Recent Wolf Attacks in the News

Hunter Becomes The Hunted In Idaho Wolf Attack

‘Stay calm’: Woman walks away after Canada wolf attack

Michigan man treed by pack of wolves

Wolf Attacks Deer In Wenatchee Neighborhood

Washington State: Fish and Wildlife Commission takes action to address wolf attacks on livestock and pets

“‘Wolf populations are increasing faster than anyone had imagined,” the legislators said in their April 23 letter. They urged the commission to act quickly ‘to maintain social tolerance for gray wolves in northeast Washington in the timeliest manner for residents…’”

“…WDFW (Washington State) wildlife managers estimate between 50 and 100 gray wolves are present in the state, and that the wolf population nearly doubled in 2012. As of March, there were 10 confirmed packs and two suspected packs, plus two packs with dens in Oregon and British Columbia whose members range into the state. Most of the state’s known wolf packs are found in Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties.”
 

Despite what you might believe, wolves are dangerous

Yes, wolves are dangerous to people.

Throughout history, wolves have roamed forests and grasslands in Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Asia where there have been numerous accounts of attacks on humans including deaths numbering in the hundreds and sometimes even over a thousand during different periods of the last few hundred years. Wikipedia reports these accounts of wolf attacks in detail.

What about the U.S.? T.R. Mader, Research Director of a North American wildlife society in South Dakota, compiled data on wolf attacks, and published a report that is a real eye-opener on the dangers wolves can pose to humans.

Some of these wolf attacks are shocking, yet documented attacks.

What about wolves in America?

That might go against what you’ve been lead to believe about wolves, here in the U.S. Because reports of wolf attacks on humans have been few and far between over the years, it’s lead many people in America to conclude that dangerous wolves are a figment of Hollywood’s imagination, but historically speaking that is actually not the case.

Wolves are dangerous. Though for the most part, wolves in the U.S. have a lot of space, and humans typically don’t live in the national parks and forests where these wolves have so much space to themselves.

The problem now? Booming numbers of wolf packs are shrinking wolf territory; more wolves means more competition for food between packs; and anytime food is suddenly scarce in an area, humans may suddenly become a food item, simply because wolves are hungry and humans are handy; add to that, some areas of the country (like national parks) don’t allow hunting or shooting and these wolves may have no fear of man at all.

Looking at the history of widespread wolf attacks in other parts of the world, that appears to be a formula for a wolf attack.

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