Pet owners need to take note that the wolf's TAIL IS WAGGING and that DOESN'T MEAN IT IS PLAYING. Tail wags communicate a variety of things for canines. It can mean they are having fun but it can also mean they are alert and fearful. Many people incorrectly read their dogs in situations and it leads to issues for both the animal and people. Glad this wolf was freed unharmed but a good lesson on one of the expressions a tail wag can represent.
I don't care for trapping whenever possible, but thank you for releasing the wolf and showing people that they aren't monsters. "clear a path and they'll just run away."
Judging by the tail the wolf was afraid and tried to defend itself, poor thing, i can only imagine how the whole thing must've felt. too bad there isnt a method to tell them that one only answer their call for help.
Thank You to the 2 men who released the wolf from a trap. It is so good to see two men doing something kind for a wild animal. Thank you and God bless you!
trapping and hunting is a natural way to keep numbers of animals down to good levels. Coyote's are a huge problem in some countries, same with wolves and other carnivorous animals. I think hunting is okay as long as the hunters are respectful towards the animal and they don't overhunt for no reason.
@@torimckeown2234 Do you eat these animals? No? Then it's a waste. We encroach more and more on their territory and kill their prey and then complain when they adapt to our encroachment by choosing easier prey such as livestock and pets. Hunting and trapping actually INCREASE the population of these animals. In a wolf pack, only one pair mate and the rest of the pack are its offspring. When you kill members of the pack, particularly the "alphas" (parents) of the pack, then they have no choice but to disperse and create their own packs and create more wolves. Look at Isle Royale. If the means to reproduce are not ideal, they don't breed. The reasons why people hunt animals like wolves and coyotes are political and greed-based. Not science-based.
@@torimckeown2234 humans are the only disease that make things go extinct, wolves mountain lions and bears have never made elk and deer go extinct, put humans in the equation and things go extinct all over the place
Lars Hansen Save the wolves yes But you do realize they had the trap for Coyotes right!! They just happened to get a wolf instead! Do you think they would have released the Coyote!..
Coyote Documentaries Exactly... People Hate one animal but like another.. They all have a purpose, every last one, from crawling Bugs to flying Bird etc..
Manditoe Mya I love mosquitoes. I don't hate them. They have a purpose. They feed the spiders that live in my room, and I love the spiders too. Everything has a purpose. I love all living creatures, each and every one of them.
I watch this and I remember how a vlogger I watch has a Boxer dog that at one time roamed their farm land. Then he went out a ways got his foot caught in one of these traps for like a day to so and he now is one leg short. He's doing wonderfully because he's still young, but even though the owners could have done more to prevent it, the foot trap is not something I want anything to get caught in.
Bless their hearts, for their humanity as guardians of the planet. It is our duty to safeguard the natural beauties of creation, its species and the environment. It's the greatest high of all.
Thanks for letting him go, he looks more coyote-like than wolves here in Idaho. More for the woods means a season gets longer for them, and people who like to hear them, who may also like trapping them or hunting them, gets to see more.
Eastern wolves are physically smaller than wolves in the Rockies and Canada. There is also strong evidence that female coyotes will breed with male wolves (but not the other way around) creating coywolves that appear to be moving south from Canada.
Ron Hargrove Eastern coyotes have DNA from both the Gray wolf and the Eastern wolf - our coyotes tend to be fairly large. I'm not familiar with these "coywolves" you mention?
David Straub A coywolf is just a hybrid. Some breed back into wolves or coyotes become basically wolves with some coyote traits or coyotes with some wolf traits.
***** The fascinating thing is that coyote mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is found in wolves, but no wolf mtDNA was found in coyotes. This means that male wolves breed with female coyotes, but not the reverse, and the offspring are absorbed back into wolf populations, but not coyote populations. pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/5222579
It depends on how bad they are injured, how long they languished in the trap, and whether or not they tried to chew off their foot to get away. nmsierraclub.org/sites/default/files/Trapping%20-%20Injuries%20Inflicted%20by%20Traps.pdf
sirgalahad777 Some humans hunt animals they don't do it to kill the animal, they usually just let it go (Except, deer. You basically shoot it and it's dead). The guys in the video weren't the ones who set the trap for the wolves, someone else set it up for coyote population control (Let's be honest, coyotes are kind of scrubs. Always attack dogs that just want to play and taking our stuff).
Just came across this, but I'll post anyway because the level of ignorance shown in some of the comments is mind-blowing. (and note that I"m not a trapper nor would I ever be one except dire circumstances) These were game wardens freeing a wolf who had inadvertently been caught in a trap intended for coyote's or some other critter. It was not a crush type trap so there would have been crushing of the wolf's foot. (or any other creature's foot)
