The story behind the Wolf pic

[Lear31MX]

well I see a lot of you guys comented on the picture of the guy holding a huge timber wolf.
the story goes...
I did not kill this animal the photo was e-mailed to me by a friend. The wolf was shoot early last year some where in the Northwest Canada area. I was told it wighted in at 220 lbs. As far as I know this is a real picture and a real dead wolf.

Now IMO I feel this to be true, but I don't think the wolf was wild, I think the guy shoot someones pet that was extremely over feed.

It is sad that someone would be so proud that they shot an animal for no reason.

[Lear31MX]

it's sad when people take take and take with out thinking of the consequenes

[Blueface]

I would hope it was killed due to self defense or protection of other living animals and no other recourse existed or to put it out of its misery if it was sick and dying.
Truly a shame if it was for any other reason. Given the clothing he is wearing, sounds like it was for no good reason.

[J0eybb]

Maybe he'll eat it. Use the fur to keep his children warm at night. It's possible it was killing his livestock.

Maybe it was an actor of New Moon.

[markem]

Three seconds with google found this story and more pics

http://www.huntandtell.com/2009/06/18/huge-wolf/

edit: I like the comments. I reserve judgment

[Eleven]

In the words of the immortal Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story

EDIT - BAH! Mark you beat me by less than a minute.

[shilala]

The story says they were bringing down cows.
I had no idea wolves could get that big. We have coyotes here, they're like mangy, scrawny German Shepherds. I don't think a hundred pound coyote exists, let alone a 200 pound coyote.
For those wolves to get that big, they were eating awful good.

[MiamiE]

www.snopes.com

[Lear31MX]

Originally Posted by markem

Three seconds with google found this story and more pics

http://www.huntandtell.com/2009/06/18/huge-wolf/

edit: I like the comments. I reserve judgment

good find, I was misinformed, but I still think it was someones pet

[AD720]

Originally Posted by Blueface

I would hope it was killed due to self defense or protection of other living animals and no other recourse existed or to put it out of its misery if it was sick and dying.
Truly a shame if it was for any other reason. Given the clothing he is wearing, sounds like it was for no good reason.

I have no problem with hunting as long as it's not just for sport. I understand that sometimes it's necessary, like around here, when if some of the deer aren't hunted they will all starve. And most guys I know use all the meat. But just killing for the sake of trophy I'm not into.

That being said I don't know if that is the situation with wolves in that area. I don't know of anyone that eats wolf meat but maybe they are over-populated. Can anyone enlighten me?

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by MiamiE

www.snopes.com

Erick,
Link does not go to any info on this subject.
How did you index it in Snopes?

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by AD720

I have no problem with hunting as long as it's not just for sport. I understand that sometimes it's necessary, like around here, when if some of the deer aren't hunted they will all starve. And most guys I know use all the meat. But just killing for the sake of trophy I'm not into.

That being said I don't know if that is the situation with wolves in that area. I don't know of anyone that eats wolf meat but maybe they are over-populated. Can anyone enlighten me?

Most people hunt down here for sport, but they use every bit of the animal they kill. Deer hunting is the most popular type of hunting in southeastern NC and venison is some good tasting stuff!

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Erick,
Link does not go to any info on this subject.
How did you index it in Snopes?

[Lear31MX]

Originally Posted by AD720

I have no problem with hunting as long as it's not just for sport. I understand that sometimes it's necessary, like around here, when if some of the deer aren't hunted they will all starve. And most guys I know use all the meat. But just killing for the sake of trophy I'm not into.

That being said I don't know if that is the situation with wolves in that area. I don't know of anyone that eats wolf meat but maybe they are over-populated. Can anyone enlighten me?

they just released a lot of grey wolfs in the Idaho area and found out that they are thriving, last year they allowed something like 200 wolf to be taken, and if you a land own with livestock and you chach a wolf in the act of degegation you can shoot it. But other than that they a pretected animals. and I would guess wolf meat tastes terrible.

[kaisersozei]

One of the funniest out-there comments on markem's link:

"This is the reason why city folk should not be making any decisions about what goes on in the country. They do not have a clue."

[markem]

http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/11/27/a...ct-or-fiction/

The first comment is interesting

[kydsid]

The weight isn't far fetched, I have a friend that does Wolf-Mastiff hybrids who are routinely 175-225 for the males. The size looks too big but that could just be perspective and a real small hunter.

[icehog3]

[BigFrank]

I want a super wolf pet...