“Killing for sport” is definitely heinous, but forcibly breeding, confining, and slaughtering animals for profit is much worse. I hope all the “animal lovers” here are vegans….

A bullet in the head would be a far more appropriate punishment.

Correction- whose only “sin” *was* being a wolf in Wyoming.

These actions were barbaric!! One has to wonder why this behavior is allowed. Because WY G&F and the politicians allow it!!!

The history of wolves is a long sordid one. For centuries wolves have been vilified by the Catholic church and through folklore. Who didn’t grow up hearing about Little Red Riding Hood and her fateful meeting with the Big Bad Wolf? Passages throughout the bible use wolves as a symbol of greed with a dark predatory nature. Unfortunately for the wolf they have been associated with the worst of mankind. Wolves are repeatedly mentioned throughout scriptures as an enemy of flocks: a metaphor for evil dishonest men who lust for power and are often used as a metaphor for Satan. The Catholic church uses the negative imagery of wolves to create a sense of real devils prowling the real world. These teachings still go on today. The power of an image can do as much damage as words can. See:
https://www.realitycheckswithstacilee.com/post/the-timberline-wolf-pack-centuries-of-hatred-and-persecution-led-to-wolf-pups-unjust-death

Jesuit Joseph Rickaby: “Brute beasts, not having understanding and therefore not being persons, cannot have any rights. The conclusion is clear. They are not autocentric. They are of the number of THINGS, which are another’s: they are chattels, or cattle. We have no duties to them…. Nor are we bound to any anxious care to make [their] pain as little as may be. Brutes are THINGS in our regard: so far as they are useful to use, they exist for us, not for themselves; and we do right in using them unsparingly for our need and convenience….” 

Imagine, teaching children this rubbish–I know, I was being indoctrinated as a child–to regard other animals as “things,” “property,” “resources,” and “livestock” as a matter of morality, dogma or doctrine! Hardening their hearts at a tender age! In general, the Catholic Church’s teachings have helped to harden many hearts, starting as children under the authority of parish priests, Sunday schools, parochial schools, and news media saturated with what the Pope says and does in public.

Face it, religious beliefs are not separate from the wildlife/predator “management” industry. “Hunter harvest averaged 336 grizzly bears annually for 1978–1996 compared to 236 for 1997–2000” (a note from Grizzly Bear Harvest Management in British Columbia: Background Report).

Years of education — formal or informal — about wildlife management and conservation have shaped our views and beliefs about the natural world. Words like ‘crop’, ‘harvest’, ‘stock’, ‘cull’, ‘yield’, and ‘surplus’ used in biological sciences and by government institutions in reference to wildlife have been so broadly and indiscriminately disseminated that they have achieved a predictable outcome — stripping us of compassion towards non-human animals. Once they are turned into ‘crops’ to be ‘utilized’ and ‘harvested’ for food, all the majestic creatures we had so much affection for and were so fascinated by as children are no longer permitted to feel pain or experience anguish. Words have rendered their lives and suffering irrelevant.