Quote Originally Posted by ramanth View Post
I think the wolf that attacked Glacier's dogs jumped a fence, so I would still be cautious.
Not in my case...when the wolf got Hobo, he came right up the driveway, into a yard full of over 30 dogs that night(we had another musher's team here), directly under a spotlight. He took Hobo off his chain. Hobo wasn't mine at the time. He was tethered with the rest of his teammates. It's very common around here for the wolves to take sled dogs off their chains.

A friend of mine in the same subdivision lost his best leader when the wolf somehow got past his six foot chainlink fence. That happened around the same time as Hobo was injured.

800 buck is a CHEAP vet bill for a wolf attack. The wolves on average take 20 dogs out of my area every winter. I know of three who survived a wolf encounter, including my Hobo(who never left after his attack). By the time Hobo was back on his paws, his vet bills were well over four grand. Hobo still has physical scars and is very phobic of the dark--a bit of a problem up here where it's dark 20 hours a day for months!

The wolves have never put much effort into getting past our fence, but I have no doubt that they could if they wanted to. There was one in the driveway checking out the gates when Delta was missing. Wolves are smart hunters. They will expend no more energy than they have to in order to eat. If there are loose roaming or chained dogs around, they'll take those before they bother trying to get past a fence.

Wolves don't attack humans. I've run into them a couple times with the dog team. I'd much rather see them on the trail than a moose. Far less dangerous to me and the dogs.

Glad your pups are safe.