Trade grasshoppers for wolves?

[strawhead]

I think I might chose grasshoppers over wolves if I had the choice. Date on one pic is wrong.

 

[sandbur]

I'll stick with grasshoppers...wolves pass through here from time to time, but no established packs (and the ranchers around here will keep it that way)

ditto, except one litter about 10-15 years ago that did not last too long.

 

[Greta&Gus]

I'll take neither.

 

[j-bird]

I'm with G&G on this one - keep'em both!

 

[mikmaze]

you are lucky, our coyotes get that big.......

 

[chummer]

you are lucky, our coyotes get that big.......

And ours are bigger than yours. I have a pic from last week that looks almost as big as those. It amazes me the difference in size of yotes from my house to my camp only 1 hour away. I might start hunting a little in your neck of the woods. My uncles place south of Norwich is in desperate need of a habitat manager. How is your herd looking? I know they went heavy on the doe permits for a few years and the herd around him is way down.

 

[j-bird]

With grasshoppers you don't have food for the deer. With Wolves you don't have deer to feed!

 

[dipper]

I can't see them they are so small

 

[Terrific_tom]

Some of those in the OP look like yotes. Or am I totally alone in thinking this?

One might not be a wolf, almost looks like a wolf/dog hybrid. All the rest are wolves.

 

[j-bird]

Either way they are bad news and can really hurt a deer population. A little "ground ID" may be in order.......

 

[strawhead]

First is my 95lb lab. Second is probably looking for what leaves the strange scent markings.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

And ours are bigger than yours. I have a pic from last week that looks almost as big as those. It amazes me the difference in size of yotes from my house to my camp only 1 hour away. I might start hunting a little in your neck of the woods. My uncles place south of Norwich is in desperate need of a habitat manager. How is your herd looking? I know they went heavy on the doe permits for a few years and the herd around him is way down.

my buddy has a great 400 acre farm about 30 miles NE of Norwich. lots of ag in his valley. He rents his fields to a neighboring farmer who puts in corn and alfalfa. The last time i was up there to archery hunt in 2011 i counted 43 deer in a 9 acre alfalfa field with about 30 mins of light left. I havent hunted up there since 2012 but there were always TONS of deer.....lots of yotes too...big yotes. They have killed several 50lb'ers in the last 10 yrs and a 62lb'er back in 2004.