Category “Everything will be fine”: Wolf-understander

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The wolf will die, the wolf will die. It kills red deer, chamois and roe deer. It also hunts farm animals such as sheep, goats and alpacas, which are particularly easy prey for it. Photos of his violent actions are disturbing.

And yet the wolf has many friends. Or maybe because of this. Isn’t he pure, unbridled nature? Compared, for example, with his descendant, the dog. Dogs! These faithful philanthropists, these unconditionally obedient subjects, whose savagery is revealed only in the barking enthusiasm with which they greet their mistress.

What we love about dogs is what we despise about them: their canine nature. If you put meat in a locked cage, the dog will ask the person for help with a pleading look. On the other hand, a wolf, driven by a bouquet of blood, will use force to gain access to its prey. He defends his right to life in furious rage. Eating and being eaten, killing and being killed, living, dying, multiplying, giving birth and being born, crawling, escaping, hatching – all the magnificent spectacle of nature.

Nature is not only breathtakingly beautiful, amazing, sublime, tragic, funny, incredibly cruel and dangerous, but also cunning and teachable. Not only in fairy tales, where the evil wolf disguises himself as a grandmother or eats chalk to satisfy his bottomless appetite. Even in real life, wolves can apparently learn to bypass herd protection measures. And some seek the path of least resistance and specialize in livestock with poorly developed flight instincts. Wolves have so far behaved quite shyly towards people, unless they feel provoked and then they do not bite, that is their nature.

Of course, the wolf’s friends don’t want it to be completely unrestricted either; their romanticism doesn’t go that far. They demand that electrified fences, shepherds and guard dogs become the norm. Here is a pasture, there is a desert. And the wild wolf must understand where he belongs. It is clear that those who understand wolves also do not want to live with wolves. They just want to know that it exists where there are no people or mother cows.

Strict protection of the wolf should be maintained to atone for the injustice done to it by exile. Those who understand wolves want the wolf to be a man. Everything will be fine.

Ursula von Arx only knows one wolf she likes: Akela from The Jungle Book. Von Arx writes in Blick every other Monday.

Source: Blick