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This whole 12-hour face-off with a wolf is pretty STDH.
quote:Joanne Barnaby was mushroom picking when she got separated from her friend near Fort Smith, N.W.T. (CBC)
"I heard this growl behind me. There was a long, tall, very, very skinny wolf. A black wolf. And his legs were spread and his hair was standing, and he was growling, and baring his teeth."
Joey charged the animal, but the wolf stood its ground.
"I don't think Joey expected that," Barnaby says. "I didn't want him hurt, of course, but I also knew that if the wolf got Joey, I'd be next."
'Trying to wear me down'
The wolf started pacing back and forth in the direction of the truck. Barnaby says it was forcing her to go farther east, away from the highway.
"It took me a while to realize that he knew what he was doing. He was trying to wear me down. He was trying to separate Joey and I," she says.
"I think he was weak. He didn't look healthy. He looked old to me ... I don't think he wanted to take us both on."
What followed was a 12-hour hunt. The wolf continued to pursue Barnaby and Joey, as they were pushed farther from her truck.
"He was dogged. He was just determined," Barnaby says. "I was in trouble."
Barnaby said she became dehydrated, her calves and thighs were aching, and there was another vicious attacker that was testing her mental strength.
"I was going crazy with mosquitoes. There were zillions of mosquitoes."
At about 4:30 a.m., Barnaby heard a loud noise. She quickly recognized it as a mother bear. Listening closely, trying to drown out the buzz of mosquitoes, sure enough she heard a cub respond from far away in the distance. The two bears had been separated.
"I realized that there was a chance that the mother bear would tackle the wolf if she felt that the wolf was a threat," Barnaby explains.
"So I made the choice of walking towards the cub."
It worked. After walking about 20 minutes, Barnaby's dangerous plan paid off.
"I heard this big crashing behind me and realized that the mama bear had attacked the wolf, or maybe the other way around, I don't know, but they were fighting and I could hear the wolf yelping and I could hear the mama bear growling and I could hear all this crashing and I just took off!"
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I assumed it was a fantasy written by a waitress.
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Is there any reason at all he'd get that introduction? Not that it happened of course.
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My at-the-time five-year-old nephew legit cried when he heard Trump won, I saw it with my own eyes. Was he a super politically engaged kindergartner? No, he just knew his parents were upset and that signaled to him that a Bad Thing happened, so he got upset too.
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