Wolves in the UK, post SHTF.

[ErikEst]

wolves are the most intelligent predators on the surface of the earth after humans (sometime i doubt the human part).
in Estonia we have couple of hundreds of them living in our forests and marshes today. you can not hunt them without the special license from the government. so every year in the winter same pathetic complains begin in the press. again and again allegedly the wolf pack killed a couple of dogs in their dog houses in some remote village or farm. or on one of our islands wolves slaughtered a dozen of sheep. this way the hunters try to manipulate the public opinion towards the opening the wolf hunt.
actually the feral dogs kill more sheep (if not all) than wolves.
you don't have to be afraid of the big wolf packs in uk. thanks to over-hunting there is not enough pray to sustain packs bigger than the half of dozen animals.
i think wild pig will be much more dangerous animal to meet in the woods.
i've never seen a wolf in the wild, they are really cautious.
in Estonia in 1980 an elderly woman died of rabies after rabid wolf bitten her. before that last documented fatal attack by healthy wolf was in 1873. before that in first half of the 19th century there was 82 fatal attacks on people from whom only one was adult, rest were the children. usually wolves attacked the lonely children ambushing them in the bushes, but there were cases when wolf virtually tear the child out from the parent hands on his door steps. when attacking the group of children wolf usually selects the smaller one.
the wolf attacks on human usually increase during and after the big crises and wars. for example only in one region of Kirov, Russia in 1947 there were 27 fatal attacks on children. those wolves got used to human flesh eating the dead bodies during the WWII.