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January 10, 2005
Arkansas Predators
Today's newspaper (registration req'd) mentions something interesting in its "100 yrs. ago today" feature:
PARAGOULD — Bethel, five miles south of here, is excited over the depredations of wolves or other large wild animals. Several men took their dogs out to run down the wild beast. Near the center of a woodland the dogs came upon the animal, but refused to attack it, and beat a hasty retreat.
Timber wolves used to be a big problem for early Arkansas settlers. Most of us forget, and tree-huggers refuse to acknowledge, that not only did wolves frequently kill livestock and even dogs, but also were known to attack humans. (What, you think stories like "Peter & the Wolf" and "Little Red Riding Hood" were just figments of some writer's imagination? Not so.)
Timber wolves are bigger & more aggressive than grey wolves, and were pretty dangerous to man and beast.......like the one my great-grandfather & his neighbor killed back in 1916. (story & photo here)
Like I always say, there's a good reason why we don't have them anymore.
Posted by Rita at January 10, 2005 10:57 AM