Lobo is no lap dog

Wed., Sept. 16, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Patrick Ashton’s Sept. 9 letter refers to the man in Idaho pictured with the wolf he had shot as having “bravado” and “proud that he had killed a dog.” Only the very uninformed would compare a 160- to 200-pound free-ranging predator as a “dog.”

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game didn’t ask for wolves to be reintroduced, it was done by the feds (U.S. Fish & Wildlife). Now they can finally go about managing them; (and yes, that means killing a certain percentage of the wolf population).

But it looks like the wolves are here to stay. Let’s just hope we can control their numbers so we here in Washington don’t have the same problems with them as Idaho and Montana have had.

William A. Cox

Spokane Valley

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