Maybe your hand raised pets are that way. But in the wild they are not like that. After several human babies and small children were killed by pet Wolves and Wolf Hybrids, the state of Alaska has outlawed the keeping of Wolf, and Wolf Hybrids here in Alaska. Don't know where you get your disinformation, but it shows you don't know anything about wolves in Alaska. And you don't read our news papers, or talk to our state biologist.
Those were healthy wolves that killed and ate the teacher in Chignik this spring. They were shot and her DNA was found during the necropsy. It was a healthy wolf pack that killed and ate the cross country skier out side of Fairbanks a few years back. It was a lactating female that attacked and bite a woman five years ago at the Artic Circle pull out, and kept her inside the outhouse for several hours till another car drove into the parking lot. A day later a healthy male attacked a bicyclist on the highway about a mile from the same parking lot. The wolves I shot trying to kill my neighbors dog two years ago were healthy as well. This pack had discovered chained dogs were easy pray. They were taking them right here in a subdivision full of homes. I've had a pack of five show up at my cabin, and try the front door. Then go out where a musher had bedded his dog team. They marked the area, then started rolling in the hay. Then they all laid down and watched the front door. I pulled a rag out of a hole between two logs and shot three of the five with a shotgun.
I've followed wolf packs and watched them from atop the hills. I've seen where they pass cold meat (winter kill Moose and Caribou) lying on the ground, and they don't give it a second look. They passed skinned Martin and Lynx Carcuses, and baited cubbies. Yet within the hour they go run down a healthy Caribou. They eat their fill and leave. Don't bother setting traps around that Caribou. All you will get is Coyotes, Foxes, and Ravens. They will not come back that way for two weeks or so. When they do come back into that area, they will not touch that Caribou. This has been my observations of the Wolves between the Wood and Totatlanika River area of the Alaska Range. Some trapper friends tell me they are able to trap wolves off Caribou and Moose carcuses up in the 40 mile country. I've also heard the same thing from down in the Talkeetnas, and the Chugach range. Up in the White Mountains I have thrown out chunks of meat from other trapped animals around a series of traps. I've then had wolves come in and one, two, or three will step in traps, then the rest will scatter. If I've done my job right I will catch the entire pack in the snares I have in the brush around the area. But the Wolves I hunt in the Alaska Range do not eat cold meat, period. Maybe they have been educated by trappers before I came up here, or maybe it's instinct, but they will pass by cold meat. They only eat fresh kills.
