"It wasn't a dog it was a wolf"
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"It wasn't a dog it was a wolf"
"His nightmare began with a gray wolf sprinting out of the woods 60 miles west of Watson Lake and surprising the passing cyclist with an initial chomp that just missed his pedal."
Here is the story on Idaho News Site
Here is the story on Idaho News Site
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I'm thinking a pump sprayer with a 50% solution of pure capsacin extract for wolves. (Sorry, my 'spirit brothers', but you can't munch on us pedalers.....)
I'm thinking, as much as it may be motivated as stated in the article (young or old & desperate wolf, maybe used to seeing humans as food carriers), that it can also be the shrinking ecosystem for the critters.
I'm thinking, as much as it may be motivated as stated in the article (young or old & desperate wolf, maybe used to seeing humans as food carriers), that it can also be the shrinking ecosystem for the critters.
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"At first, Hollan tried to out-race the wolf, but the predator reeled him in with the ease of a peloton erasing the lead of a dope-free breakaway rider."
Nice.
Nice.
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It's just yet another unfortunate jab at wolves in the wild that they just don't need with the freaks in places like Idaho where this guy is from.
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A one wolf wolf-pack? Unusual!
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Without the natural predators, the 'prey' critters will take over and become a nuisance.
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Yeah, the story was some serious dramatic embellishment of details for sure. I don't know what was up with this lone wolf going down to the highway to hunt by himself, but the whole bear spray from the hip while pedaling for my life deal with him biting at my pedals and then at tent bags, etc sounds way fishy.
It's just yet another unfortunate jab at wolves in the wild that they just don't need with the freaks in places like Idaho where this guy is from.
It's just yet another unfortunate jab at wolves in the wild that they just don't need with the freaks in places like Idaho where this guy is from.
Some wolves will simply remain lone wolves; as such, these lone wolves may be stronger, more aggressive and far more dangerous than the average wolf that is a member of a pack.
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Real problem is isolated and embellished events getting them more negative press, followed by fear. They've only recently been released back in minute numbers in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. But ranchers and hunters prefer them extinct. Thus we get a lot of big bad wolf tales to continue to the narrative until they are fully eradicated again.
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I love wolves. I have been fortunate to see some in the wild. However, to say that a wolf is not or cannot be dangerous or not aggressive would be foolish. But, that said, harming wolves because one chased a cyclist is like killing all the sharks because of the movie JAWS which was fictitious, this story, however is not likely made up.
I suspect some might feel differently if their PC thinking rear was being pursued by a large, hungry wolf. I hope nobody was harmed, including the beautiful animal.
Not that long ago, I had two large coyotes flank me. I was hiking alone. They were simply curious. In Arizona, I witnessed another two large coyotes, follow a lady hiker. I was about two thousand feet up and away on a ridge. They were cutting the switchback. Another group coming down scared them off. I am again, sure they were not stalking her, just following her. It is possible that hikers might scare up rabbits or prey which then running from the hiker, run right to a hungry coyote, the more likely behavoir.
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I suspect some might feel differently if their PC thinking rear was being pursued by a large, hungry wolf. I hope nobody was harmed, including the beautiful animal.
Not that long ago, I had two large coyotes flank me. I was hiking alone. They were simply curious. In Arizona, I witnessed another two large coyotes, follow a lady hiker. I was about two thousand feet up and away on a ridge. They were cutting the switchback. Another group coming down scared them off. I am again, sure they were not stalking her, just following her. It is possible that hikers might scare up rabbits or prey which then running from the hiker, run right to a hungry coyote, the more likely behavoir.
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Real problem is isolated and embellished events getting them more negative press, followed by fear. They've only recently been released back in minute numbers in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. But ranchers and hunters prefer them extinct. Thus we get a lot of big bad wolf tales to continue to the narrative until they are fully eradicated again.
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This describes me to a T! I don't do group rides, but if you ever see a lone rider advancing, you better watch out!
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Hiking, biking, anything bear country...at a minimum I'm packing bear spray...air horn, lol, how'd that work for ya!
I guess he's lucky it was a lone wolf, does anyone know how to handle a pack of wolves preying upon you?
I guess he's lucky it was a lone wolf, does anyone know how to handle a pack of wolves preying upon you?
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does anyone know how to handle a pack of wolves preying upon you?
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Real problem is isolated and embellished events getting them more negative press, followed by fear. They've only recently been released back in minute numbers in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. But ranchers and hunters prefer them extinct. Thus we get a lot of big bad wolf tales to continue to the narrative until they are fully eradicated again.
https://m.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoor...point-cyclist/
And I'm guessing that you would've been one of those motosists that wouldn't have bothered to stop and help.
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"His nightmare began with a gray wolf sprinting out of the woods 60 miles west of Watson Lake and surprising the passing cyclist with an initial chomp that just missed his pedal."
Here is the story on Idaho News Site
Here is the story on Idaho News Site
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