Guido Rich was chased into town by a pack of wolves while he was out on dogsled this week. He returned with a gun to hunt the animals down. (Submitted by Sherri Wolfrey)
Truth be known, he probably just saw them… He claims he outran them… yeah right…
A Labrador man turned from prey to predator this week, when he tracked down and killed a group of wolves that chased him on his dogsled.
Guido Rich hunted the four animals — two on Wednesday night, and two more on Thursday morning — after they chased him back into Rigolet.
Rich says he was about 10 kilometres away from town with his dogsled Wednesday night, when he realized what he originally thought was nearby snowmobiles was actually a pack of wolves — and they were headed in his direction.
“I was there bawling at my dogs and trying to get them running fast to get back to town,” he told CBC Radio’s Labrador Morning.
He outran the wolfpack into Rigolet, and went and picked up his friend and their gun. Rich and his friend returned to the trail, and found the pack close to the community.
That’s when Rich started firing, killing two of the animals and pushing the others into the woods.
The next morning, Rich went out to the trail again to look for the surviving animals, who came too close to his home for comfort.
“I said it’s just as well try to get them instead of running into an encounter with them again,” he explained. “Either drive them away or get them, I figured.”
On Thursday morning, Rich found two more of the animals and killed them.
Lessons learned
The experience gave him a bit of a fright, Rich said. Being alone with his dog sled, and without a gun, he said he worried for what was going to happen to his dogs.
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“I don’t think my dogs would have had a chance against four or five wolves,” he said. “I was more afraid for the dogs than myself.”
Rich said he never had a wolf encounter like this before, but now promises he won’t leave town without his gun again.
“I guess it was pretty close to fighting for my life,” he said. “I should have had my gun then, but I wasn’t thinking about wolves.”
Comments
Not understanding nature – please do not interact with it – you just killed amazing animals so important to natures balance. Did they just follow you curiously? You did not give them a chance, and should have stayed in town? Was that revenge? Did you look at those amazing creatures? How would you have felt if somebody shot your dogs in your garden because they were frightened because they were barking at them? Would that be fair? Feel the dead dog – feel the dead wolf – I do not understand how you could do that…… Not understanding nature.
He’s full of sh-t! Just needed an excuse to kill the wolves who probably weren’t even after him. If they were they would have killed him
I do not believe this for a second. We used to run a big dogsled operation in Montana and encountered wolves many times – they would retreat a safe distance and watch with curiosity!!!!!!! This was an excuse to slaughter wolves!!! Wolves are non-confrontative!!
We have to agree