News story on Anchorage Daily News site. Sorry, no link.

Damn. This was a sad story all the way around.

After a 20 minute confrontation between the starving wolf, a lady, and 4 dogs, the Lab/Rottweiler mix attacked the wolf as it was trying to kill his little buddy.

I've seen my Labs attack other dogs in the same type situation with aggressive other dogs, and basically they try to body-knock them off target and intimidate . Bad move with a wolf. He was dead in an instant, throat ripped out.

Whereupon the wolf immediately proceeded to eat him, despite the other dogs and person 20 feet away. The wolf never offered aggression toward the person - just looking to kill something to eat. Person said the wolf was wobbly on her? feet. Obviously near dead from starvation, and in desperate last straits.

Wolf

Link

I wonder if that woman had been out there with her grandkids, if the wolf would eaten one the kids without paying her any attention.

don't take a ski pole to a wolf fight...is what I got out of it....

Pretty much!

I feel sorry for any starving animal doing desperate things to try to live.

BUT, had it been me, and I was packing, there would have been no fight, only a tanned winter wolf pelt on the wall. And my dog curled up on the sofa yet.

Haines's rivers will change now

Similar thing happened in the Anch vicinity a few years ago. Dogs were snapped up, killed and eaten (IIRC) near ER and Ft Rich. while they were being walked.

After watching that video, I feel so much better now. lol

I've never read a story told by the media of any sort that didn't blame the wolf because it was starving. Any time they kill something it wasn't what wolves do, or bears do, it was only because they were starving. Poor wolf. Just trying to stay a live. Pull that with my dog and eat a bullet!!!

Based on the article, that woman sounds like one flaky hippy.

Maybe, maybe not. I tend to lean toward maybe...

I kinda have the same attitudes as she, toward the brown bears that have frequented my yard in Sterling over the last 30 years or so... the wolves that come thru, not so much. So far nothing has died.

But I might get et one day...

It's worth it. I mean - how many of you poor "civilized' [bleep] encounter these critters in your own yard or nearby... You pays your money and takes your chances. YMMV

Kinda ironic that out here in the wayback (Kotzebue) I generally have to travel well out away from the village to find wild critters...except the resident snowshoe hare (of huge interest to my Lab!) in the lot across the road and an occaissional fox that comes hunting it, or cleaning up hunting scraps from the neighborhood hunting endeavors...

An Elk herd has no place for wolves.

That wolf was starved for one very important nutrient:

lead, served hot...

DF

Yes she does,,but,, you don't have to be a flake to lose a dog or 2 to wolves! We've killed 3 wolves IN our dogyard and 4 in front of the house on the ice.

Yep, That was my 1st impression, too!

Totally unaware of the danger,
totally unprepared and
now totally in denial.

I remember that and the Army staying in character of its institutional stupid closed the area off to activity.

Actually they brought in trappers and hunters and killed more than one whole pack. Keeping people out while they were actively trapping with big traps only made sense. Keeping the wolf kill quiet made even more sense...

But, you don't live in Haines or at the Mendenhall!

That's good to hear! I had not heard much after the initial attacks on the pooches.