Survivors of rare wolf attack in Banff recount how animal tried to drag man from tent in middle of night

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Russ Fee rushed to a neighbouring campsite when he heard screaming and found a wolf trying to drag a man away

Russ Fee was camping when he heard screams coming from the neighbouring site. He rushed over and helped stop a wolf attack. (Elizabeth Withey/CBC)
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Russ Fee thought the panicked voices rising from the campsite next to his were from parents whose child had gone missing — until he heard both a man and a woman desperately scream, “Help!”

Panicked himself, Fee fumbled with the zipper on his tent, finally got the mesh door open and rushed over with a lantern in hand.

At the neighbouring campsite, the Calgary man saw a wolf trying to drag something from a destroyed tent, like a dog yanking at a bone.

“It was just so much larger than any dog I’ve ever seen,” Fee told the Calgary Eyeopener on…

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3 thoughts on “Survivors of rare wolf attack in Banff recount how animal tried to drag man from tent in middle of night

  1. I don’t know, I heard this on a major national news site last night, and it is strange because I didn’t see anything about it online – I’m sure if I had searched, but usually this kind of stuff is front and center.

    We know Canada hates its wolves too, and tries to get rid of them regularly, and the news report said the man ‘wrestled’ with the wolf. Who does that? Anyway, I was disappointed that a major news channel would report it in such a sensational way, irresponsible at best and unethical at worst, if it even is true and not highly embellished. Must not have been enough shark stories yesterday!

    Animals cannot defend themselves from human propaganda.

  2. ^^major news TV station, I should have written. You notice that the comments about ‘big’ and ‘bigger than anything I have ever seen’ were managed to be put in there.

    When it comes to reports from people, I tend to be of the mind – “People say believe half of what you see, some and none of what you hear.” – Marvin Gaye

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