Years ago a guy bought a twenty acre parcel about 5 miles west of my place, he stopped by and introduced himself and said he was working on his doctoral thesis in comparative, bla, bla, blah. I never thought much about it until one day I was out walking around my property and was charged by two large wolf hybrids. They charged down the hill at me and I drew and fired my 44 in front of them, the dirt it kicked up and the large muzzel flash must have changed their minds, they ran down the road towards their home, I fired again behind them and they accelerated I got in my truck and chased them all the way to their home, when I got there I could see the guy had build a large circular pen and there were four hybrids in the pen eating a dead deer and another three out side, all now howling at me. The guy wasn't around, so I went home and started calling around. I called the university and asked about grad students working on a wolf study, no one knew anything and had never heard of the guy. A couple of days later I stopped him on the road and told him about the encounter, I told him people have the right to shoot roaming dogs and he told me that if I shot his wolves he would kill me, I thanked him for the warning and told him that if I had to shoot one I knew what to expect from him and would deal with him accordingly.
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