01-06-2010, 12:12 AM
600 wolves sounds like a lot.
but when put in to perspective, we have in the mid summer any where from 1500 to 2000 elk in michigan. by fall there will be 10-15 percent less due to natural loss and lack of sustainable habitat.
Wolves being at the top of the food chain suffer even greater loss, all tho they see most of thier loss during the harsh winters up there. they can loose any where from 50-75 % over a single winter. mostly elderly and the young that can not hunt or move or learned or forgotten how to survive the harsh eliments.
anither thing is that has not been mentioned is that there are trappers who are trapping for the wolves, they cant mention it because again if the do they have animinal rights people on thier backs along with feds. They are caught and killed and studdied both inside and out from parisites to stomac content to what is going on inside their brains.
Like the rouge deer that posed a threat to my beagle a rouge wolf is not destin to be with us much longer. Here is where the problem lays, if you tell one person to shoot and kill the offending animal, a hundred rednecks from the city will jump in the back of a pickup loaded for bear and kill every wolf in site to find the offending wolf that has left its natural behavour.
one of the main causes of a wolf going rouge is other dogs, especialy large ones and more so males. What happens is a female wolf or cyote in heat will seek out a mate and it wont matter the breed if an available wolf is not found, It is those offspring that loose the fear of man.
then you got the people who thow food out for them changing thier taist from deer rabbit and other wild life to live stock.
There are so many things that intise these animals out of thier natural habitat and all of them are done by man.
now on to the asian carp, [:p] gotta go find that post.
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but when put in to perspective, we have in the mid summer any where from 1500 to 2000 elk in michigan. by fall there will be 10-15 percent less due to natural loss and lack of sustainable habitat.
Wolves being at the top of the food chain suffer even greater loss, all tho they see most of thier loss during the harsh winters up there. they can loose any where from 50-75 % over a single winter. mostly elderly and the young that can not hunt or move or learned or forgotten how to survive the harsh eliments.
anither thing is that has not been mentioned is that there are trappers who are trapping for the wolves, they cant mention it because again if the do they have animinal rights people on thier backs along with feds. They are caught and killed and studdied both inside and out from parisites to stomac content to what is going on inside their brains.
Like the rouge deer that posed a threat to my beagle a rouge wolf is not destin to be with us much longer. Here is where the problem lays, if you tell one person to shoot and kill the offending animal, a hundred rednecks from the city will jump in the back of a pickup loaded for bear and kill every wolf in site to find the offending wolf that has left its natural behavour.
one of the main causes of a wolf going rouge is other dogs, especialy large ones and more so males. What happens is a female wolf or cyote in heat will seek out a mate and it wont matter the breed if an available wolf is not found, It is those offspring that loose the fear of man.
then you got the people who thow food out for them changing thier taist from deer rabbit and other wild life to live stock.
There are so many things that intise these animals out of thier natural habitat and all of them are done by man.
now on to the asian carp, [:p] gotta go find that post.
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