Night-Gaunt49: True, but the corporate media must repeat the fairy tales so drunk gunnies can shoot work dogs and claim mistaken identity. The last authenticated wolf sighting around here was in 1938, yet these idiots still brag about killing a wolf recently. Most are feral dogs, coyotes, or hybrids of both, and the dogs are the only possible danger to humans.
This toon maligns wolves and exacerbates the erroneous belief created in the media that wolves are vicious killers that attack humans without provocation. The reality is that more often humans attack and kill wolves without provocation.
I do agree that it is not okay to repeat misinformation of this sort that has — and still is — caused the death of many innocent wolves. They are a beautiful animal, monogamous, they baby sit for each other, share the work and the food.
It makes me sad to see this comic strip, which also portrays dogs (who are closely related to wolves) as loving, intelligent beings, perpetuate the myth of the wolf as a killer of humans. Wolves are quite wary of humans and tend to avoid us at all costs, perhaps because our species has killed so many members of theirs. In fact, there are very few proven reports of wolf attacks on humans.
erin.adamic Premium Member over 9 years ago
Well, duh.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: True, but the corporate media must repeat the fairy tales so drunk gunnies can shoot work dogs and claim mistaken identity. The last authenticated wolf sighting around here was in 1938, yet these idiots still brag about killing a wolf recently. Most are feral dogs, coyotes, or hybrids of both, and the dogs are the only possible danger to humans.
mackenzie0158 over 9 years ago
This toon maligns wolves and exacerbates the erroneous belief created in the media that wolves are vicious killers that attack humans without provocation. The reality is that more often humans attack and kill wolves without provocation.
RWBRAND over 9 years ago
Wolves do not attack people…period.
Hunter7 over 9 years ago
well… wolf was hungry and the human was….. never going to survive, even with an immediate airlift. .. But he is sorry.
connie over 9 years ago
I do agree that it is not okay to repeat misinformation of this sort that has — and still is — caused the death of many innocent wolves. They are a beautiful animal, monogamous, they baby sit for each other, share the work and the food.
Laughing Wolf over 9 years ago
It makes me sad to see this comic strip, which also portrays dogs (who are closely related to wolves) as loving, intelligent beings, perpetuate the myth of the wolf as a killer of humans. Wolves are quite wary of humans and tend to avoid us at all costs, perhaps because our species has killed so many members of theirs. In fact, there are very few proven reports of wolf attacks on humans.