A difference of attitude

Earlier this year, rock start and hunt "outfitter", Ted Nugent, attempted to auction the lives of five Alaskan wolves on the internet. The highest bidder was to have the pleasure of using a snowmobile to hunt them to exhaustion before killing them at point blank range. The snowmobiles used are some of the most high-powered and manouverable machines in the world. No wolf stands any chance whatever of escaping pursuit by one. All this was to raise funds for a childrens' hunting camp or party. The auction attracted worldwide outrage and criticism and the website carrying it mysteriously 'lost' it. No more was heard about it although, since snowmobile wolf-hunting is still practised in Alaska, there is little doubt that it went ahead. Alaska has possibly the world's worst record for unethical and environmentally damaging hunting practises. Most of the Alaskan public would like to see snowmobile hunting outlawed but they appear to be helpless to oppose the grip which the fur-trapping and hunting lobbies hold upon the political scene there.

Nugent is a "hunting" extremist and maintains a deeply disturbing website which rants about the glories of blood brotherhood and 'honour' and calls upon children to revel in and fulfil their destiny as "predators". His "childrens' hunting camps" seem to be little more than hard-line indoctrination rallies at which children are inducted into his personal, weird blood cult. He also appears to run something that looks suspiciously like a "canned hunt" on his personal 300-odd acres of land. You can view his appalling website here TedNugentsWebSite

By contrast, we thought you might like to see what wolves do for children in Britain.

Introducing wolves to children is a process which requires careful thought and skilled and knowledgable handlers to achieve safely and it is not something we routinely do. If those five wolves did indeed die at the hands of a thug on a snowmobile then the Anglian Wolf Society would like to dedicate this picture to the memory of those five beautiful animals.