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Some of you may know that earlier this year I left my job at Awesome Forest to go back to school. I still keep in touch with all my old co-workers and today I have received some tragic news.
On New Year's Eve someone cut a hole through both fences around the Wolf Pack's enclosure and let some of the pack out, including the Alpha male Haida and the Alpha female Granite. At present, the only wolves left in the enclosure are yearlings and pups.
Even worse, it appears that yesterday someone took advantage of the situation and shot and killed Haida on the road. They've found blood, casings, and fur, but it looks like he was taken away in a car.
Our pack has been in captivity since the '70s. They don't know how to hunt or survive, especially in winter, and are now loose in territory that has other packs in it. Wolves being territorial, they will kill newcomers into the territory about 90% of the time. If our guys don't get caught, they will either be killed or starve to death.
The whole staff is heartbroken. The wolves are so much more than a research or education pack to us, they are family.
I remeber Haida as a pup my first year there, and how sick he was, and how many days and nights the staff and our vet worried over him. I remeber how he protected the old alpha Smudge after he was displaced in the pack and the others had a tendency to pick on him. Haida would always stop it before it got to rough. I remeber the last time I saw him playing with his and Granite's first litter of pups.
You can read the boss's press release and blog here http://haliburtonforest.com/blog/item/52
If anyone here is in the Minden or Haliburton area and sees or hears anything, please contact the forest.
On New Year's Eve someone cut a hole through both fences around the Wolf Pack's enclosure and let some of the pack out, including the Alpha male Haida and the Alpha female Granite. At present, the only wolves left in the enclosure are yearlings and pups.
Even worse, it appears that yesterday someone took advantage of the situation and shot and killed Haida on the road. They've found blood, casings, and fur, but it looks like he was taken away in a car.
Our pack has been in captivity since the '70s. They don't know how to hunt or survive, especially in winter, and are now loose in territory that has other packs in it. Wolves being territorial, they will kill newcomers into the territory about 90% of the time. If our guys don't get caught, they will either be killed or starve to death.
The whole staff is heartbroken. The wolves are so much more than a research or education pack to us, they are family.
I remeber Haida as a pup my first year there, and how sick he was, and how many days and nights the staff and our vet worried over him. I remeber how he protected the old alpha Smudge after he was displaced in the pack and the others had a tendency to pick on him. Haida would always stop it before it got to rough. I remeber the last time I saw him playing with his and Granite's first litter of pups.
You can read the boss's press release and blog here http://haliburtonforest.com/blog/item/52
If anyone here is in the Minden or Haliburton area and sees or hears anything, please contact the forest.
I'm heartbroken and too 
for words right now. Animal-liberation nuts are so blinded by 'animals need to be FREE' that they can't wrap their little heads around what they're actually doing to the animals.
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