Kill to Kill

Kill to Kill

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Almost any time the subject of wolves comes up, interested parties on either side get emotional. I recently did a heart wrenching story on a fellow by the name of Tom Blessinger who was out in the wilderness with his beloved dog, Chisolm. Chisholm was tagging along in the rear behind Tom on his ATV when he disappeared. Ultimately, Chisholm was found and had been killed by wolves. They did not try and eat him, they just killed him. I talked to Mike Schlegel, retired Dept of Fish and Game official about this kind of wolf behavior. “Somebody from one of the television stations in Spokane sent me a video clip. It shows a cow moose with a week old calf trying to defend it from 5 wolves and this video goes on for about 10 minutes and in the end, the calf is stretched out between three or four of the wolves and they are pulling it to pieces. I would love to have that shown in every grade school in the state. When a bear kills something or a mountain lion kills something, they are dead before they are eaten on. When wolves kill they sit and watch while they are eating on  live prey. Eaten alive so if they want to go at it from an emotional point of view, I think that is one of the weaknesses of the wildlife groups. They don’t try to get that stuff out front. Anyway that is not biology that is emotion and the facts are not driving the system right now, it’s emotion and rhetoric.
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