Mission Wolf
I attended the Mission Wolf seminar that was held on Tuesday, and it was quite enjoyable, check out their website here. There was one very odd thing that they said, "Local Ranchers donate their dead livestock to the mission, and almost always deliver the corpse themselves, often driving 50-100 miles to do this."
Why would ranchers in any way support any type of wolf rehab? Well from what I can find is that disposing of these carcasses is hard. Either let them decay and attract predators or jump through hoops to find a proper place. So this becomes an economic solution, it cheaper to drive 50 miles and drop it off for wolves than pay for disposal or the possibility of increasing predators around you cattle. Here's a little bit of info I found (pages 5-8).
posted by Casey @ 9:34 AM
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Mission Wolf is not a sanctuary for wild wolves that have lived in the wild - it is a sanctuary for wolves and wolf-dogs who were born in captivity. These guys have never been out in the wild. Wild wolves eat dear, moose, elk etc. sometimes berries too. The wolves at Mission: Wolf as well as other wolf sanctuaries are not rehabilitated and reintroduced to the wild they live out their lives in the sanctuary so they feed them livestock as it is easier get more more readily available than wild meat. Again this is a sanctuary not a rehabilitation center.
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