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Photos of hunters struggling to lift up a giant wolf they had shot so
they can pose with it have been doing the rounds on social media this
week.
The incredibly large animal was reportedly shot near the village of
Aleksandrovka, in Blagoveshchensk district, the autonomous Republic of
Bashkortostan, where packs of wolves had recently started terrorizing
residents. Interestingly, locals say that wolves had not been seen in
the area four over four decades, but they recently turned up this
winter, and had not shied away from entering human settlements. Several
dogs have been found torn to pieces in recent weeks, and around twenty
cows and sheep and horses have been eaten by the wolves. To make matters
worse, guard dogs have apparently stopped barking to alert people about
approaching wolves.
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“They don’t bark, the dogs are hiding in the kennels. There is no
barking at all. Why? I’m not a hunter, I don’t know. They are probably
afraid, they feel,” Aleksandrovka resident Mikhail Dementov said.
The people of Blagoveshchensk district became even more distressed last
week, when local hunters managed to shoot dead a giant wolf that stood
as tall as an average man on its hind legs. Photos of the hunters
struggling to pose the gigantic creature have been doing the rounds
online in Russia, and were even picked up by several UK tabloids.
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Although the giant wolf has been getting a lot of attention on the
internet, in Blagoveshchensk people are scared that such creatures may
still exist in the forests surrounding their homes.
“This year it’s been very difficult, the wolves have defeated us,” local
hunter Igor Baranov said. “We have no good hunters left.
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