[quoteThis is what was left of Scott's dog after he returned to the scene with the Goverment trapper.He also was attacked and beat the wolf with a tree branch and his dog,saved him as he ran to his pickup but payed the ultimate price.
Jayco [/quote]
Respectfully, I heard the story differently. Here is the link.
Did you see a different version? Hear it second hand? Missread it? Spun it to fit your agenda?
He did not "beat the wolf with a tree branch." He hit a tree. He seemed to assume (I'd like to have him tell me more details, if he's reading) the dog purposly saved his life. I doubt it, but I wasn't there. I can only suspect the dog was pretty busy getting ripped to pieces and was not trying to save anybody. He wrote that he didn't know what happened as he was running away. He wrote that the wolf "lunged at him", which could use more explanation also. He did not write that he was attacked. Perhaps he thought so, I don't know, but he didn't write that. Pretty soon this story is gonna be just another fable where "Two wolves were on me and the rest of the pack gathered to finish me off. I felt their breath on my throat and was about to be torn asunder. Suddenly my dog, old yeller, ferociously and without fear or concern for his own life, attacked the wolves long enough for me to escape." Now we have yet another fable about wolves attacking man.
JMHO: The guy seemed freaked out during the attack on his dogs. You can see by the story that others acted more quickly than him, telling me he was probably at least stunned, at worst in shock. That is normal. Hard to know what is going on around you when stunned.
It seems to me that we should try to give the straight facts when speaking of such things. But, that's just me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
I personally would not run dogs in wolf country. I'm even hesitant to walk a normal dog where I live, as I occasionaly have wolves in my yard. I'm sure that if my dog was attacked in front of me, I'd get myself in trouble; I always carry when in the forest, or even when out of sight of my house (more about bears and moose than wolves). That's why I was interested in this thread. I'd like to get a couple of two-hundred pound stock dogs to go on walks with (I don't want to go for a walk with some game-bred pitbulls <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ); at least I'd have a bit of time to do something about the situation. A smaller dog gets killed or mortally wounded too quickly to save.
