Trog, if you assume I have something against wolves, you are mistaken. I had an arctic wolf hybrid as a pet for a while, very cool animal, very mellow, but the way he would open his mouth and tear up carpet remnants I gave him to play with was truly awesome. I believe I could've fit my size 7 3/4 head in his fully open maw. I rescued him from a kennel and took care of him till I could find a farmer north of Spokane who could give him a better taste of the wide open spaces yet still see to his more domestic needs.

I don't know as deserve has anything to do with the issue. Wolves were removed from our environment except for a very few small areas quite a while back, and our culture and the way the land is utilized and occupied now will not support a reintroduction on anything more than a novel scale. As the wolf population in the lower 48 increases, and they exceed their artifical boundaries more and more, they will be treated exactly the same as grizzly bears and cougars who make excursions outside of their allowed boundaries. When it comes to the public welfare, there have been very few compromises that allowed predators to remain in close proximity to people and their livestock. There are lots of things we can change to accomodate the natural world, but the cost is usually too high for the general public to tolerate. When given a choice between doing without for something mostly unseen but which poses additional threat, no matter how slight, vs. having what we want to make our lives easier, eventually we always choose the latter.

I do agree that Wolfman is a bit eccentric in his methods, but even under controlled conditions he has made some significant accomplishments that are providing at least one demographic with measurable benefit, without large debtriment to the wolf population to boot. That seems worthy, even if he is a bit of a nut job.