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Good for her! I noted one reply said the wolves were from the Yukon - could have been but I thought they were BC wolves. It doesn't really matter, as they are one and the same - nice big 'dogs' A? Not your average little 70 pound brush wolf from Ontario.

We(when guiding)had a client charged by a wolf a few years back. He liked to go for a run after lunch and didn't want to carry his bow. The wolf saw him coming up the 'road'(grass and weed covered) on a rounded knob- probably saw his bobbing head,not his whole body at first, didn't know what it was other than something to eat and charged straight at him. When in full view, the runner's shape became apparent, the wolf put on the brakes, clawing at the road's surface turning and disappeared into the bush in a flash. We can only speculate as to why the wolf attacked initially, as I did, due to the type of terrain - the wolf was flat on the ground facing the oncomming runner and as he came up over the rounded rise, the wolf charged him, then took off into the bush, frightened when it realized what he was. It certanly wasn't a normal predatary attack as the wolf probably matched his weight (he's scrawny)and could have carried out the attack quite successfully. When he got back to camp he was still shaking and white as a sheet. Said he'd for-go his runs while in Northern BC. after that.

No matter what you say to people, there are always those who don't believe you need to be armed when they're in the bush where the animals live.

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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