Best canoe dog for wolf protection

[ppine]

Yesterday I was in some remote country with a friend. We were surveying the fire damage from 2022 in the Sierra north of Reno. We got back in the truck and went 40 yards and noticed a bear cut running up the slope, We did not see his Mom. If we had not had our 2 large dogs with us it might have been a different experience. I like herding dogs for protection.

For a pack of wolves a rifle.

 

[Black_Fly]

I’ve been more in awe of wolves than afraid. A griz in camp or up close on a trail is another story - No awe, just healthy fear.

 

[dramey]

I fear a moose attack more than a bear attack. I have been charged twice by moose. I have shared trails with a brown bear before. Wolves generally keep their distance, although a few years ago, a wolf kept a woman in an outhouse for 6-8 hours.

 

[scoutergriz]

I fear a moose attack more than a bear attack. I have been charged twice by moose. I have shared trails with a brown bear before. Wolves generally keep their distance, although a few years ago, a wolf kept a woman in an outhouse for 6-8 hours.

Same here, I've been charged too but fortunately it was a bluff- you really don't realize how big a moose is until you stand your ground and look up to see that it would need to bend down to put it's chin on the top of your head, fortunately it gave off a snort that sounded like a cross between a freight train passing an a truck venting it's airbrake reservoir
in 6 decades I've only seen maybe a couple of dozen wolves (and most were loners), but twice at a logging camp up north i saw wolves call out and kill camp dogs- a large (70-80lb) German Shepard and an equally large mixed breed, wolves in northern Ontario are known to lure out dogs and usually kill, but sometimes adopt into the pack years ago I had the opportunity to talk to the Thibodeau's about this after their decades long wolf study, and was told that every dog is seen as a potential competitor unless it shows immediate signs of docility.
As far as personal experiences I've never had a wolf approach closer than about 100' feet without suddenly turning tail except for one encounter- while hiking a trail quite far ahead of the group I approached a junction. there was a wolf approaching from the opposite direction, we both stopped maybe 25' apart when we realized there was something sharing the trail, looked at each other, and simultaneously turned and went the other way. It was glaringly obvious the neither of us wanted anything to do with the other...

 

[Black_Fly]

I fear a moose attack more than a bear attack. I have been charged twice by moose. I have shared trails with a brown bear before. Wolves generally keep their distance, although a few years ago, a wolf kept a woman in an outhouse for 6-8 hours.

Grown bull moose have no natural enemies in most places. They will stand their ground for a good food source. A grizzly or Woolf pack will only attack a bull when starving, or if the bull becomes incapacitated. One spring, I found a bull that had fallen through the ice on a narrow, his tracks indicate he was running. The wolf tracks on shore and lake snow cap showed the rest of the story. I wonder if they tormented the bull while he drowned, or fed on him from the edges of the broken ice.

 

[dramey]

The two moose attacks I had was a female moose. I kept a tree between us both times.