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Colorado wolf sighting turns out to be pack of Saint Bernard dogs
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PARK COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado sheriff’s workplace says video of a potential wolf sighting earlier this week turned out to be footage of a bunch of Saint Bernard canine.
The report said the potential wolf sighting occurred on Monday close to Freeway 285 and County Street 5, roughly 90 miles southwest of Denver.
The Park County Sheriff’s Workplace, together with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, investigated the sighting.
Throughout the investigation, CPW and the sheriff’s workplace realized that 5 Saint Bernard canine which have a historical past of escaping their enclosure, received out on Monday, and have been working unfastened within the space of the “wolf” sighting.
The video of the animals was taken from a really lengthy distance and the lighting, together with shadows, made it robust to decipher what kind of huge, four-legged animals have been working close to an elk herd, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
CPW flew an airplane over the realm on Wednesday morning and didn’t see any proof of wolves or injured or deceased elk.
The canine proprietor was cited by Park County Animal Management for letting their canine run unfastened in an identical incident on April 23.
In January, two canine have been attacked by wolves on a ranch close to Walden. One of many canine was killed within the incident. There have additionally been a number of cows killed by wolves in Jackson County.
CPW has created a wolf sighting kind for anybody to report a sighting and to submit photographs or movies, which can assist help CPW to doc wolf exercise.