Reply #23: "Our ancestors did their best to get rid of the problem"

[texastoast]

Wow, that WolfCrossing.org is a fearful bunch. They are just pro-human convenience all the way.

Do you view all such magnificent creatures as "problems"? What is the long-term solution if part of that solution is that all species on this continent have a chance to survive in some of the habitat that existed here for them in 1492? How much more shall we fuck everything up? How good is life if there is nothing but busy breeding humans, genetically-modified food species, and concrete?

How do you think the Native Americans dealt with "the problem"?

Au contraire, I grew up with timber wolves, before all of them were killed here. My sister had a big dairy farm, so I do know a bit about wolves, cows, horses, and children living together in deep rural Texas and Oklahoma. My sister's family dealt with wolves not so much from fear, but from respect and awareness. Wolves run away when a shot is fired into the air most of the time. I saw that with my own eyes, more than once.

Coyotes have as many as twelve in a litter and there is nothing to stop them from overrunning, and they are much better survivors than wolves. They are everywhere here, urban included. Every place on the planet has predators, but none so selfish as humans when humans want to encroach. Humans don't want to negotiate ANYTHING. Having the privilege of being at the top of the food chain carries great moral responsibility for visionary stewardship. At least it does to me.

Great Pyrenees in pairs or more are extremely effective. Just their bark will keep most predators at bay. And they don't eat much. One of the chicken ranchers I know keeps about ten of them. Goat farmers here have big packs of them too. They are the best dogs on the planet in my book and would love your climate.

One of my friends has a twelve-year-old wolf she raised from a pup. He is completely awesome, though he is getting old. So many people told her she would have to get rid of him, but she didn't listen and lives to tell of it. He looks something like this.



Why don't you move? Animals need to live somewhere. Come on down to Texas and enjoy the economy and leave the wolves a place to be. We still have plenty of open cheap land, and since we have no statewide long-term land use plan, it's all going to hell anyway.