re: Got attacked by a wolf last night, in my neighborhood

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dude more pit bulls have killed people this year than wolf attacks in the history of north America

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So mankind has lived in north America for what, 10, 15,000 years and wolves were here long before that...apparently by some estimates 485,000 years prior to that...and you are under the impression that a species of domesticated dog has killed more people in in one year than all of a 10-15,000 year period'

France is a pretty good indication of how this is probably not true. They started keeping records of wolf attacks resulting in death somtime around 820 years ago. From 1200 to 1920, when, by the way, wolves had become almost completely extinct in France, there were 720 documented cases of wolves killing someone in France. Of course France was more densely populated than North America during almost all of that period...may be so today for all I know...but France is what, 1/10th the physical size of the United States, let alone the rest of North America. Native Americans, not known for solid written record keeping, didn't bother to keep count of how many people were killed in North America by wolves, but the number was sufficient for wolves to be considered quite a nuisance to them, according to research, as they have proven to be to all men wherever the live in close proximity. The reason wolves don't kill people in North America today is because out ancestors, knowing what they knew about wolves in the old country, as well as native Americans who had experience with them here in North America, did everything they could to wipe them the frick off the face of the earth....since guns were available wolves suddenly presented far less of a threat to man than they once did.

Finally, you can see a pit bull well trained who will do all sorts of parlor tricks and the vast majority have a very stable disposition and aren't in the least bit viscous. they all have the potential because of their genetics and physical build but the vast majority are nothing but big babies. On the other hand you will not see a wolf, not a hybrid but a sho nuff bona fide wolf, rolling over on demand and offering to shake paws for a milk bone......any manner of wild viscous animals can be trained to do all sorts of silly shite with physical abuse, treats, convincing them it is somehow in their best interest....not a wolf....there is a reason man wiped wolves out when offered the opportunity and it wasn't blood lust and the desire to kill shite because there were much better eating game to be had which also offered better skins for use....no, man wiped wolves out because the men knew, as did the wolf, that the wolf would wipe the man out if given the opportunity...they was no co-existing with wolves....they had to get the hell outa here.