Two Banff National Park wolf packs likely decimated by trappers. Warning, GRAPHIC!!!!!!!!!
In January, Craig Comstock did what he’s done many times over the years — loaded his two dogs into his vehicle and drove from his home in Calgary to the backcountry for a day hike.
Comstock, 44, is an avid outdoorsman — he hikes, fishes and hunts pheasants and partridges — but none of that prepared him for what he found in the bush.
First, he came across two dead foxes and a dead wolf.
“Their heads had been cut off, their feet had been cut off and they had been skinned,” he told The Narwhal, noting that he also saw “several piles of bait meat.”
Then, as he walked on, he felt the prickly sensation of being watched. His eyes met those of a wolf, just 10 metres away. It was huge, he said — much, much bigger than his own dogs.
He froze.
Then he noticed that the wolf was trapped in a wire snare. Comstack and the wolf stared at each other.
“I wish there was something I can do to help,” Comstack remembers thinking.
“I can’t cut you loose, buddy,” he thought.
The wolf lay back down in the snow.
Comstock would find six other dead wolves caught on the same trapline.
When John Marriott, a local wildlife photographer and conservationist in Canmore, Alta., first heard word about the live wolf found in a snare, he set out to check the traplines himself.
What he found, he says, was a “scene of carnage.” He told The Narwhal he found three dead wolves, nine dead coyotes and four dead foxes — all of which had been skinned.
All, he says, were “just laying there with the meat in various stages of decomposition.”
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With enough investigators on this, they could find the monsters who did this. They are somewhere selling these pelts right now. Some billionaire's huge mountain lodge will be decorated with wolves' skins and heads.
Just googled and found that you can find a find a Rocky Mountain Bearskin on Esty for just $80.
How are these people so devoid of empathy for anything other than themselves.
I hate people.
I've loved wolves since I was a kid. This makes me so sick.
I don't guess there's any way to determine who is buying the pelts?
From the article:
"“It is imperative that we do not let radical animal-rights extremists ruin the image of such a beneficial practice,” it states."
