She had a goat due to give birth in an open shed in wilderness country, and seemed surprised to find a wolf killing it... I think that I would have been surprised to find a wolf (or some other predator) NOT killing it. She could have saved time and just staked it out in the open.
Before I clicked on the article, I was visualizing a battle between a thin old toothless wolf and an old person with a cane in a fight, all in slow motion.
Sue