THE DARK SIDE
Wolves
are beautiful animals but they are not all warm and fuzzy. Wolves are meat
eaters which means they kill other beautiful animals to survive.
The
following excerpt is from the novel “Savage Run” by C.J. Box.
From
Center Point Publishing.
A
cow elk stood off of the trail, in a small clearing, in a yellow shaft of early
morning sunlight. She was straddling what looked like a wet bundle of fur. She
watched them approach with her large black eyes. As they neared, her big cupped
ears rotated toward them. Her legs trembled, as did her moist black nose.
Joe stopped. Stewie and Britney
froze behind him. “jesus,” Stewie whispered. The bundle of wet fur was the
cow’s dead calf. Joe could see now that the calf’s throat had been ripped
open and its lower jaw was gone, It lay dead in a pool of dark blood. Near the
calf, tufts of long canine fur cling to shafts of the long grass.
The cow elk would soon die as
well. She had been disemboweled as she fought off the wolves that killed her
calf. Loops of intestine, like long blue ropes, hung from her abdomen. One of
her front forelegs had been skinned to the bone. Dark blood clotted in the thick
fur of her upper shoulder.
Joe had seen female elk fight;
they sat back on their haunches and lurched forward, striking with their hooves.
The power of their strikes could crush the skull of a badger or break the back
of a coyote. The mother elk had connected with at least one wolf from the pack,
hence the fur in the
grass……………………………………………………………………..
“This is what wolves do,”
Joe said…………”I’m not saying they shouldn’t be here, but this is
what they do. They’re wolves.” ………………