Careful in Wolf Country

Beef rancher Tom Blessinger lost his great Pyrenees named Chisholm on a trail near Sage Hen Hill in Idaho. The culprits were a small group of wolves, Tom thinks maybe three or four. The reality is that the dog was tagging along on a trip into the forest and was only about 100 feet behind Tom and a forest manager. Tom is cautioning anyone who is in wolf country to be extra careful.”One-on-one my dog can kill a wolf, that is what they are bred for. But we know there were at least two and from the tracks, the trapper thought there were three or four. At that time the trapper said I will try and get the helicopter and see if we can’t get the culprits. Two days before, the wolves had gotten into a band of sheep over by Idaho City. They killed 200 sheep. They took the helicopter and killed about four walls. Well some bright soul calls Washington, DC and raises hell about killing the poor wildlife. So they shut the helicopter down and we couldn’t get it. So the trapper set out some traps. This was within 20 feet of the main road. I started telling people about it because it's kind of a dangerous deal because there are a lot of pickups and campers that go up that road going fishing, boating or just camping, and a lot of them stop as they go up the road to let their kids go out and go to the bathroom behind a bush.