So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
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@simon_brooke Not sure if you should be. It was honestly unnerving in a manner I don't remember having felt before.
Wolves are scary. We have them in our woods too, at least when we're not around they showed up on a camera feed, and it does make you reconsider a little bit if you want to have the kids playing freely out of sight.
To be clear, I also like having them in DK, but maybe not like right next to me.
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As I kept on shouting and looking at the animal I backed away until the line of sight was broken.
Then I turned and walked away at a steady pace while looking towards the animals spot.
We soon hit the open fields and didn't see it again. Dog REALLY wanted to go home and pulled at the leash until we were inside.
I returned by bicycle and with more powerful flashlights to see if I could find the wolf. No luck.
Fricking terrifying. Do not recommend.
End of story.
@Pepijn was driving home last night and pulled over for a wee, and while I stood there, about a hundred feet down the road I saw what might have been a coyote but pretty sure was also a wolf.
It was slinking across the highway away from me, so I didn't really worry, but I had a similar kind of uneasy feeling. Are there more? Are they watching me?
Very familiar stretch of highway so I was totally comfortable before I saw it, but it was a definite reminder of who owns the friggin night.
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn this does put a bit of a damper on our idea to get sheep and have them graze in that area.
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@Pepijn I am *so* envious! Sadly, we have no wolves in Scotland any longer.
@simon_brooke Same here. If you haven't read it, you might enjoy Jim Crumley's "The Last Wolf". https://lastwolf.co.uk/the-last-wolf/ @Pepijn
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@simon_brooke Same here. If you haven't read it, you might enjoy Jim Crumley's "The Last Wolf". https://lastwolf.co.uk/the-last-wolf/ @Pepijn
@tompearce49 Thanks, new to me but on the list.
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn
Wow, I’ve been really afraid of wolves since I was little and, if I’m honest, not at all happy about them “returning”
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn I only saw one, last year, in daylight. And this year I learned that a lair nearby was poached and pups were taken/killed. We need more wolves, even if they scare the shit out of us. BTW, here's what @szarareneta recorded tonight (a few hundred kilometres away from my place) https://mastodon.social/@szarareneta/117526476122545880
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@Pepijn I only saw one, last year, in daylight. And this year I learned that a lair nearby was poached and pups were taken/killed. We need more wolves, even if they scare the shit out of us. BTW, here's what @szarareneta recorded tonight (a few hundred kilometres away from my place) https://mastodon.social/@szarareneta/117526476122545880
@Szescstopni @Pepijn tbh I've been never afraid of the wolves even tho I meet them regularly. I am more afraid of the bears, boars, hunters and ticks
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@Szescstopni @Pepijn tbh I've been never afraid of the wolves even tho I meet them regularly. I am more afraid of the bears, boars, hunters and ticks
@Szescstopni @Pepijn and above all the worst are packs of wild dogs because they are not afraid of the humans
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@Szescstopni @Pepijn tbh I've been never afraid of the wolves even tho I meet them regularly. I am more afraid of the bears, boars, hunters and ticks
I think here in Denmark ticks are the ultimate apex predators.
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn Last winter, I heard two wolves howling in the middle of the night. It was so cool, but the sound also triggered that ”genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before” response, as if it totally bypassed every bit of conscious human thought I’ve ever had and went straight to some primeval part of a human brain that actually belongs to a rather frightened prey animal.
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As I kept on shouting and looking at the animal I backed away until the line of sight was broken.
Then I turned and walked away at a steady pace while looking towards the animals spot.
We soon hit the open fields and didn't see it again. Dog REALLY wanted to go home and pulled at the leash until we were inside.
I returned by bicycle and with more powerful flashlights to see if I could find the wolf. No luck.
Fricking terrifying. Do not recommend.
End of story.
@Pepijn Extremely cool, but also I am glad it wasn't me.
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn this has echoes to me of when I was hiking in a state park and realized I had just stepped between a feral hog sow and her piglets. I did not try to scare her off and very carefully backed away. Amazing experience, but also scary. Something I will cherish the memory of and maybe not want to repeat.
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So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn I encountered a wolf when I was a kid, and I also had the simultaneous "oh cool" and "oh fuck" thoughts.
I didn't yell, but kept eye contact while backing away until I was behind a group of trees and then ran like hell. -
So. For a great many years I've wondered what it would be like to encounter a wolf while walking in the woods at night.
Now I know. It's genuinely unnerving in a manner I have never felt before while out in nature. Frankly. It was intimidating as hell.
Dog and I had an encounter with -I think- a single wolf a couple hundred meters from home.
Thread to jot down my thoughts / the events ->
@Pepijn that was a great read. Thanks for sharing.
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As I kept on shouting and looking at the animal I backed away until the line of sight was broken.
Then I turned and walked away at a steady pace while looking towards the animals spot.
We soon hit the open fields and didn't see it again. Dog REALLY wanted to go home and pulled at the leash until we were inside.
I returned by bicycle and with more powerful flashlights to see if I could find the wolf. No luck.
Fricking terrifying. Do not recommend.
End of story.
@Pepijn Swedish wolves eat small dogs, or rather kill them, they're probably seen as intruders. Danish wolves are probably of the same opinion.
Young wolves that haven't learned properly to fear humans yet can be bold. If you show fear you're pray.
I've personally never meet a wolf, only moose. I also spent an autumn scaring away boars from the compost and been fending off swans and gees since they were taller than me. There the rule is: be confident, be scary, give them a clear way of escape.
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As I kept on shouting and looking at the animal I backed away until the line of sight was broken.
Then I turned and walked away at a steady pace while looking towards the animals spot.
We soon hit the open fields and didn't see it again. Dog REALLY wanted to go home and pulled at the leash until we were inside.
I returned by bicycle and with more powerful flashlights to see if I could find the wolf. No luck.
Fricking terrifying. Do not recommend.
End of story.
@Pepijn hey, BTW, wolves will often hunt by letting you/prey focus on one of them while the others circle around and attack from the back and sides. Sweet dreams tonight!
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@Pepijn hey, BTW, wolves will often hunt by letting you/prey focus on one of them while the others circle around and attack from the back and sides. Sweet dreams tonight!
@CarstenBoll I mean, I always wanted an indoor cat instead of a dog..
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As I kept on shouting and looking at the animal I backed away until the line of sight was broken.
Then I turned and walked away at a steady pace while looking towards the animals spot.
We soon hit the open fields and didn't see it again. Dog REALLY wanted to go home and pulled at the leash until we were inside.
I returned by bicycle and with more powerful flashlights to see if I could find the wolf. No luck.
Fricking terrifying. Do not recommend.
End of story.
There. I installed our trail camera. Now let's see if we can capture a #wolf.
Realistically we just get a memory card full of deer and little birds.I also found a small bit of deconstructed deer around here. Difficult to make out how old it is or whether is was deconstructed where I found it.
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@Pepijn this does put a bit of a damper on our idea to get sheep and have them graze in that area.
