A large animal shot in Montana was originally reported as a wolf.MONTANA FISH, WILDLIFE AND PARKS
On May 16, a rancher in Denton, Montana, shot and killed an animal that approached his livestock. The rancher initially reported the animal as a wolf, but specialists from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks disagreed. In photographs, the animal’s canine teeth and front paws appeared smaller than a wolf’s should be.
“Based on the photos, we have some doubts as to whether it was a pure-bred wolf, or a hybrid or a wild dog of sorts,” Warden Sgt. Kyle Anderson of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) tells KXLO, a Montana radio station, as reported by The Idaho Statesman.
“The animal was a young, non-lactating female and a canid, a member of the dog family, which includes dogs, foxes, coyotes and ...
