4/26/2012

Wolves (about time)

 It is about time I wrote about wolves 


I love wolves (well,duh). They are really awesome animals with an undeserved bad reputation. Did you know that the Eskimos respected wolves? But most others thought that the wolves howl was creepy and eerie. Seeing  their big teeth and sharp claws also scared people .Many stories were made with wolves as the bad guy. The things is ,wolves avoid humans at all costs! Plus, dogs evolve from wolves so why are we so scared of them???When people came from Europe to North America they killed tons of buffalo, deer, and elk which are prey of the wolves so wolves ate farmers cattle and sheep .So then there became bounties for wolves !You could get money for killing them! Now there are only 5000 Gray wolves in the USA. There are 100 red wolves in the USA. Now people are hunting wolves again.400 wolves, almost half of Idaho’s population were killed. Some Organizations like Defenders of Wildlife, are working to save the wolf by putting trackers on wolves so farmers know when they are near, putting things that deter wolves near cattle, buying guard dogs and range riders to protect the cattle, and providing farmers with food to feed their cattle so they stay farther away from wolves. Recently there has been an anti-wolf proposal created by wolf haters in Wyoming that says people can kill wolves on site including pregnant females and cubs! I can’t believe U.S. fish and wildlife directors have given in to this outrageous act.

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