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Lila Voudrach with Environment and Climate Change N.W.T. encourages people to leash up and vaccinate their dogs. (Submitted by John Brandon Steen)<\/p>\nThe N.W.T.’s Department of Environment and Climate Change is asking people to take precautions with their dogs after three wolves were spotted in-and-around Fort McPherson, N.W.T.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A lone wolf, which had been seen hanging around the community since the beginning of October, was shot and killed this week by a community member, said Lila Voudrach, the manager of wildlife and environment for the Beaufort Delta region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said that wolf was seen hanging out with a group of loose dogs and eating out of dog bowls in the community.<\/p>\n
Diana Koe, president of the Tet\u0142it Gwich’in Council and a resident of Fort McPherson, said the wolf didn’t seem to be scared of dogs or people in the community. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just too comfortable walking down the main road, sitting on people\u2019s steps and hanging around with other dogs,\u201d she said. \u201cIt became concerning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the wolf was shot, two more showed up and are still hanging around the community, Koe said.<\/p>\n
Voudrach said the wolves haven\u2019t attacked anyone and currently pose little threat to people, but dogs are at greater risk and could end up transferring the disease to humans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said dogs have been killed by wolves in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lila Voudrach with Environment and Climate Change N.W.T. encourages people to leash up and vaccinate their dogs. (Submitted by John Brandon Steen)<\/p>\n
To deter more wolves from coming into the community, Voudrach is asking owners to leash their dogs and not let them roam free. <\/p>\n
Voudrach also stressed that vaccinating dogs against rabies is the best way for humans to avoid catching the disease.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWolves are wildlife so they may be potential carriers of diseases that can be transmitted to people, to their pets,\u201d Voudrach said. \u201cSo vaccinating dogs for rabies is very important.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Koe said that people in the community are taking precautions. Residents have been asked not to feed the wolves or leave food outside, including food for birds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Traps have been set up by the community\u2019s renewable resource officer to catch the two remaining wolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The N.W.T.’s Department of Environment and Climate Change is asking people to take precautions with their dogs after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-242037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}