wolflady, I have also always heard that wolves were very shy. Maybe the ones in the Ashland area are more bold than others, but from what I hear they aren't that shy. They would never let anybody approach them, and as far as I know they've never approached people, but they run right through rural yards and are seen quite frequently near the highways. I don't know if the tales about them luring dogs away are true, though - I was just relaying the locals' attitudes toward them. I even stopped by a nearby DNR office to ask about them and they verified that they are, indeed, wolves! I was pretty sure they were because they were so much larger than any coyotes I had ever seen, and I knew they weren't dogs because of the shapes of their tails and the way they carried them.

While most of the wolves I've seen were alone, I did see a couple together. The husband of a girl I work with actually had the rare opportunity to watch a pack of them hunt down a deer, and my husband saw two of them stalking a deer.

It's so odd knowing that they're endangered, when we see so many of them!