Video of what was thought to be a wolf pack in Park County led to a wildlife investigation and a subsequent determination that the animals sighted were dogs.
The video was taken on April 25 in an area about eight miles south of Fairplay and was circulated on social media, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife news release.informed, science-based decision“We take a conservative approach to stating whether or not there are wolves in a particular area, and this case is an example as to why we do not have an immediate reaction or public response,” said Eric Odell, CPW’s Species Conservation Program Manager.
During a site investigation, three wildlife officers found canid tracks in snow and made a cast set for analysis. A drop of blood, two separate hair samples and two urine samples were collected and sent to a laboratory for genetic testing. A howling survey was conducted in the area. The collected samples were submitted to a USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service laboratory and results returned on Thursday were positively connected to a domestic dog.
“The flight allowed us to try and cover our bases to make sure that if they were wolves and they moved, that we were able to detect any sign of wolf activity,” Lamb said. “That would be looking for any dead wildlife, which we didn’t discover. For a pack of four to five wolves, we would have found some deer or elk carcasses or livestock carcasses and we didn’t find anything, even where the initial report came in.
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