What began as an early-morning deer hunt turned into an unnerving encounter with three timber wolves, a Saskatchewan farmer says.
Late last month, Gord Cadrain ventured east from his farm near Glaslyn, 68 kilometres north of North Battleford.
Cadrain said he was lying in snow-covered brush, scanning for deer through the scope of his gun, when he spotted a yellow eye.
“‘What the heck was that?'” he recalled thinking. “‘Was that a coyote, or a wolf or what?'”
It was, in fact, a timber wolf and it appeared to be stalking Cadrain, he said.
He shot and wounded the animal, then followed the trail of blood down a coulee to make sure the wolf was dead.
‘These wolves, there was no fear in their eyes.’—Gord Cadrain, farmer
At a point where the trail ended, he ran into his second wolf.
“I look over to the right and here comes another one. A great big white bugger, and he’s coming straight for me,” Cadrain said.
Cadrain shot that wolf and another soon after.
With only one round left, Cadrain quickly headed home. If there were more wolves, he would have been in big trouble, he said. They were all large, healthy-looking animals.
“It would have been one heck of a fight,” he said. “If you think you were going to beat them off with a stick … you’d be looking for a pretty big stick.”
He made it home without any further incident. Although wolves are by nature shy creatures, Cadrain said, he will now avoid that area.
“I have no fear of timber wolves,” he said. “It was just one of those oddball things.”
Although reports of wolf attacks are rare, there have been a number of sightings of the animals this year in La Ronge and other northern communities.
No one has been hurt.
The Wolf Preservation Blog 
I have a serious problem with this hunter’s statements. Many anti-wolfers can simply spot a wolf, claim it attacked them, and open fire! After shooting the first wolf, he pursued the other two and proceeded to kill them as well; clearly NOT self defense. While potential danger is always present around any wild animal, killing these three wolves should have been avoided. Instead, it’s another example of a trigger happy individual happy to display his prized trophies in his pictures through the link provided.
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The first one was stalking him. He did not pursue the other two. He went to make sure the first one was dead when the other two attacked.
Thanks Lone Ranger, I did read it carefully and have considered all possibilities prior to giving an opinion. Do you consider the possibility that he could have perceived a false threat? Were the wolves simply curious or was this an opportunity for an avid gamesman to pursue his sport? If you noticed, the article mentioned that noone has ever been harmed in that area. While there is a first time for everything, I find it difficult to jump to conclusions when the facts don’t support that it was a wolf attack.