According to jim menster a private breeder of wolves in moscow idaoho, he states wolves have the similar characteristics as dogs and as soon as we learn to get over our fear of wolves we can all learn to appreciate this animal. Many wolves are beeing bred and tried to be introduced to the wild all though once a wolf is domesticated it is very rare for them to be able to survive on their own. Wolves make good pets and are able to function with humans. They have been applied to the sport of doggsledding as recent as the 1950s. Wolves are a crazy animal with a nack for survival.
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
The reflection story I choose is called Why I Hunt: A Predators Meditation by Rick Bass. The short story tells of Bass’s love of hunting for both elk and deer. However, the significance of the story goes far beyond merely killing an animal for its meat, as it tells mostly of the emotional struggle he feels as a hunter. Bass acknowledges the fact that he is a predator but wonders if his insatiable need for meat will somehow affect him in a later life. He questions whether or not he will have to pay for all of the innocent animals’ deaths that he has caused.
In doing so Coren shows how people use dogs to make their lives more comfortable and that early people would use dogs at first as essentially a form of garbage disposal. That is until primitive people realized the security that the wolves and jackals had to offer. This, Coren claims, is when genetic engineering first began. Early humans recognized that some of the wolves and jackals around their camps would begin to bark if people from other camps or wild animals approached during the night. They understood that if there was guard dogs surrounding the camp at night the need to have human security watching their camps was unnecessary allowing the humans to save energy for other important tasks such as hunting for food.
Most people shudder at the thought or sight of a Pit Bull and consider them vicious atrocities, but I will show that Pit Bulls are innocent and really are just misunderstood. I would like to give some facts, dispel some myths, and show the side of the breed that the media chooses not to tell. American Pit Bull Terriers were first introduced during World War I and World War II. The job of the Pit Bull was to deliver messages back and forth across the battlefield. Pit Bulls were first bred to bait bulls and bears as a sport back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but soon became more commonly used as house pets due to their friendliness towards people (Brom, 1987-09, p.14).
Even more are lost each year to other causes such as weather or disease, 21,100 in 2012, plus 3,600 dead from unknown causes. So of a total of 43,000 head of sheep lost in 2012, 300, or 0.698% were killed by wolves. These facts lead me to believe that wolves are not the threat to livestock that many ranchers make them out to be and. In fact, wolves are beneficial to the ecosystem because they effectively regulate prey populations without the need for human intervention, and to the livelihood of the very ranchers who oppose their reintroduction by removing coyotes (the actual number one killer of livestock) from the top of the food chain. After conducting this research, it is my belief that reintroducing wolves to Rocky Mountain National Park will be of benefit to all parties involved, humans and animals
Despite resistance from ranchers and other outside the park, the wolves have formed numerous packs and continue to thrive. Their reappearance in the ecosystem has affected everything from elk, deer and bear population to the plant species growing in the Lamar Valley. Nearly every change brought about by the wolves reintroduction indicates that the presence of wolves has created a healthier and more complete ecosystem. If I was a “fly on the wall,” I would follow around the released wolves in the Yellowstone National Park. Why?
I agree with carter in that without a language animals are unable to form thought and reason, and thereby have no realization of there existence. I also believe in the eating of meat because of natural order, I believe that, because we are a superior race we possess the right to eat weaker animals to survive, just as the wolf eats the rabbit because the rabbit is the wolves natural prey. Although vegetarians may argue that because we are able to reason and discern that another organism is feeling pain, unlike the wolf, we have an obligation to our prey to not cause them pain. But I believe that while we may cause pain to another animal, it is the natural order, animals that are born as prey are preyed upon, whether or not they are born on a farm or in the wilderness doesn't change the fact that they are still able to satisfy a predators needs. Rachels and other vegetarians claim that
This zone is filled with more state parks and undesired farm land. The undesirability of this land for cultivation provides a better environment that prevents the wolves from needing to wander into farm territory for food. Farmers living in these zones have to refer to other options to deal with invading wolves. Many of them use speakers projecting howls to imitate other Grey Wolf packs. This usually makes the invading pack migrate to other areas.
Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada. Retrieved Oct.12, 2011 from http://www.atlanticfarmfocus.ca/Opinion/Letters-to-the-editor/2011-02-03/article-2195433/Opinion%3A-Wildlife-hysteria%3A-Nova-Scotia%26rsquo%3Bs-war-on-coyotes/1 In this article, authors are opposed to the idea of offering bounties, started from fearing coyotes, which leads them in to woods, hunting alone, which is a real danger. They are suggesting that a single event of tragic attack is not a good reason to kill lots of coyotes with no serious boundaries. Coyotes are predators replacing