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Tips for wolves
Not tooooo worried yet but any tips for wolves when you are camping?

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Never tried myself but I've heard that slaughtering a lamb and leaving it in front of your tent will draw the wolves in close. Is that what you meant?
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A snippet taken from my mates blog from two years ago, when he was in Mongolia:

It is getting very cold at night in these parts.
Im woken at dawn by a pack of wolfs outside the tent. They sound exactly like the impersonation the Italian on the Moto-guzzi did for me a few days ago, if I didnt know better I would have guessed them to be wild boar. There are at least three very interested in snorting and sniffing under the tent and I can hear more wandering around a few meters away. The sniffing and snorting gets more and more enthusiastic, I cant see anything but can hear that snouts are now under the tent porch. (No ground sheet here). I had had thoughts about this happening and imagined that I would get dressed into my bike gear but in reality this is no time for rustlings and movement inside the tent that would only cause more interest. Ive been staying very quiet but now is the time for action and so at the top of my voice I sing out DAYO IS-A DAYO IS-A. This works a bit and the wolfs jump back but they dont leave, now pacing around a few meters from the tent. They pace around the tent for a good 30 minutes and in that time lots of sounds cause me to imagine lots of things. There is some running, several low deep throaty yawns, then the snapping of twigs on the ground. Then a very load deep growl, could that be a bear! A lone animal now circles the tent. The locals near by, about a quarter mile away wake up and get up, they start to make a lot of noise as is their way, Shouting and then chopping wood, its the unmistakable sound of a heavy thump on a tree stump cracking through the air. Slowly the noises outside my tent get more distant. I desperately want to sneak a look but Im no fool and stay still for another ten minutes. Now its time for me to get up, Im desperate for a piss and so singing DAYO all the time I get dressed and out of the tent, its cold and Im hungry.

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Purchase a 3. Wolf moon shirt from amazon, it will attract members of the sex you are inclined to, it will repel critters , boarders and other hostile elements.
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I hear it's the same with lions. The night is their domain but the day it yours. They don't apparently know what to do with a tent even though we know it's really easy for them. Animals are way more risk adverse than us.
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If you are querying the HUBB regarding Gray Wolves, an extremist right wing group aided and abetted by our own CIA under the auspices of a program code named Gladio (Turkey 1960s and continuing) - the stay behind armies put in place following WWII, I would suggest, you sing God Bless America in lieu of Dayo IS-A Dayo etc... or join us in the Call for Intellectuals thread of the HUBB Pub for more intel.

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Wolves are very shy creatures. Usually quite scared of humans.

I'd be more worried about the Black Bears...
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Not had a problem with wolves yet but have woken up to a herd of cows nibbling their way round the edge of the tent and err... leaving their mark

Opened the tent in the morning once to find a wild turkey staring back at me - are they dangerous?

Camped on a rubbish dump in the Pyrenees (it was dark when we put the tent up!) and spent the night listening to rats scratching at the material trying to get in. Not sure singing God save the Queen or whatever would have helped - I doubt they spoke English.
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Try not to mention Stale Solbakken or Terry Connor. Always slip in Bully, Waggie or The Doog comments when appropriate. Always deny the existence of West Bromwich.
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[QUOTE=Tourider;. Always deny the existence of West Bromwich.[/QUOTE]

How did a football team get into this conversation :-)
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"Wolves sack assistant boss Terry Connor
Wolves this afternoon fired assistant boss Terry Connor after 13 years at the club.

The 49-year-old, who ended last season as manager at Molineux following Mick McCarthy’s sacking, has left after just two months with new boss Stale Solbakken."

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any tips for wolves
It seems that the best tip is not to take on the job of manager of Wolves.
(they must be in the second division these days).
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Well had a quick count of all the important parts they all seem in order so it all passed without so much as a nibble

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Spot on Walkabout, "not managing the wolves" is the best tip, a tip
I have tried my very best to convey far and wide for many years....
Few have listened.

Once you identify, organize , train up and provide arms, you will be bitten on the a** just as soon you turn your back.

xfiltrate eat, drink and herd cats instead..... it is easier....
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If you are querying the HUBB regarding Gray Wolves, an extremist right wing group aided and abetted by our own CIA under the auspices of a program code named Gladio (Turkey 1960s and continuing) - the stay behind armies put in place following WWII, I would suggest, you sing God Bless America in lieu of Dayo IS-A Dayo etc... or join us in the Call for Intellectuals thread of the HUBB Pub for more intel.

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Even 99 % of Turks don't know and will never accept this! How could you know well about this ? Interesting !
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