…If they’re mean, they get shot and if they’re “too-friendly” they get trapped and have to spend they rest of their life stuck in an enclosure…
Too-friendly Eastern Wash. wolf still on the loose
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Officials are still trying to trap a wolf that has to be moved from northeast Washington to prevent it from becoming too friendly with dogs, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department said Monday.
“It can take some time to trap a wolf,” spokesman Craig Bartlett.
The wolf, known as Ruby Creek Wolf 47, may be wary because it was trapped in July 2013 and equipped with a radio collar. Tracking last summer showed the wolf hanging around homes near Ione and playing with pet dogs. It has not been aggressive to people or livestock, but there is potential for more serious problems.
To prevent the wolf from mating with dogs over the winter, the state Wolf Advisory Group decided in September to move it to the Wolf Haven sanctuary in Tenino.
The sanctuary has set aside an enclosure in an area away from public view, spokeswoman Kim Young told The Chronicle in a story published Friday.
It would be only the second time in Wolf Haven’s 32-year history that it has accepted a wolf from the wild.
“It’s pretty disheartening the Ruby Creek wolf has become habituated to dogs and being around people, that she now has to spend her life in captivity,” Young said.
“The challenge is that she has lived her entire life in the wild,” she said. “We do all that we can, but we are very aware that this is not the wild.”
Wolf Haven has 82 animals, including eight wolf-dog hybrids and two coyotes.
The sanctuary provides a home for displaced, captive-born wolves and also serves as a breeding facility for two types of highly endangered wolves – the Mexican wolf and the red wolf.
Wolf Haven monitors wolves by remote cameras to reduce stress to the animal by minimizing human presence.
Exposing the Big Game 
The apex predators (wolves, bears, lions) are not naturally afraid of man, a relative puny creature without his weapons. This natural lack of fear is often mistaken for habituation by wildlife agencies. Usually these wild ones are not a real threat and can coexist with man and his dogs and other critters. Reads recommendations: Romeo: The Story of an Alaskan Wolf by John Hyde
Romeo regularly visited with owner’s dogs when the humans brought them into his area to x-c ski, and he never harmed a dog of a human. Bears in Montana, Glacier, Yellowstone are used to seeing humans and the vast majority of the time will ignore humans, not seeing them as threat or prey. The top tier predators normally see each other this way and do not risk injury to themselves by a confrontation. Gordon Haber lived among and observed wolves for forty years and was accepted by them as an observer. They were sometimes curious but not threatening: Among Wolves by Gordon Haber and Marybeth Holleman. Gordon also addressed this habituation myth but Alaskan wildlife officials ignored him. Lewis and Clark (read Undaunted Courage) spent several weeks in Great Falls MT on the Missouri and observed the lack of fear of bears and wolves and wildlife in general. So, maybe wildlife agencies should allow a wolf that is trying to escape them alone. Wolves have bred with dogs and coyotes through the ages of their coexistence.
The “habituated” bears in Glacier and Yellowstone and MT deserve an annual Humanitarian award for tolerating humans.