Ik denk dat het ook veel verschil maakt dat je het over je eigen hond hebt.
De hond is 'n huisdier,gewend aan jou en word door jou gevoerd.
En ik denk niet dat ie aan je gaat knabbelen...
Hoop dan maar dat er iemand is die op zoek gaat wanneer je 'n week niet zichtbaar bent..
of misschien blaft je hond de hele buurt bij elkaar voordat ie te erge honger krijgt!
Maar 'n wilde wolf kan wel zeker mensen aanvallen, gelukkig niet altijd met dodende afloop:
Carnegie was attacked and killed by wolves while hiking in remote Northern Saskatchewan. Carnegie is the first human known to have been killed by healthy, wild wolves in North America.
An exhaustive Norwegian study surveyed all wolf attacks throughout the world for the last several hundred years.
Wolf attacks on humans have been growing in frequency
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... GL75U1.DTL
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Fatal wolf attacks have always been, and will continue to be, extraordinarily rare events," says Dr. L. David Mech, founder of the non-profit International Wolf Center and a wolf biologist with the United States Geological Survey. "Mr. Carnegie's death is a terrible tragedy but one fatal wolf attack in the recorded history of North America does not warrant widespread alarm."
Though this was the first recorded fatal attack in North America, researchers have documented 26 non-fatal attacks, most of which resulted in only minor injuries. The common factor in 21 of those attacks as well as Carnegie's death is wolves that received human food.
According to the Center, wolves are generally shy animals that fear humans and tend to avoid human-inhabited areas. Wolves can lose their aversion to people, however, when they have frequent close contact with humans and receive food rewards for their boldness. Once this happens, wolves are much more likely to approach humans and human-populated areas. This leads to trouble for wolves and people.
"When we teach wolves to lose their fear of humans or associate humans with food the chances of conflict greatly increase," said Dr. Mech. "The results can include dead pets, dead wolves, and, very rarely, attacks on people."
http://www.wolf.org/wolves/news/2005rel ... attack.asp