With the number of breeding pairs down to 95 in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming (at more than 3 times the original goal), we continue to lose an incredible amount of livestock in addition to wildlife comsumed.
As of Dec. 8, wolves had killed at least 353 head of livestock, including guard dogs, in 2009, a rate of more than one per day. Officials with the Montana Department of Livestock add that for every confirmed wolf kill,
they believe another seven cattle, sheep or horses are killed by wolves that aren�t found immediately and are fed on by other wild animals, so those deaths are known as unconfirmed kills.
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