'Bad' Wolf Story

 I noticed out of north Germany, in the Hannover area....a 'wild wolf story'.  

Around three days ago, in the Hannover suburb area....a young wild wolf was seen on the street.  NDR covered part of this story.

To lay out the landscape....from the center of Hannover, for about five miles, it's urban landscape, then you come to most farms and forest (not that dense like you'd see in Bavaria).

Local attitude about wolves?  Well....throughout Germany, the prevailing attitude about wolves is that you rarely ever see one, and if you just let them 'pass'....they don't do any 'bad' stuff (like attack kids).  However, there is one attitude in which people believe the act of killing the wolf prevents some future incident.

Words by the state Environmental Minister (SPD Party)?  Mostly words that wolf needs to leave the area....one way or another (suggesting rubber bullets even came up).  

Some people who've observed the wolf....noted that he looked 'unwell'.  Personally, you'd have to be fairly close to judge this factor, and I might suggest the 'unwell' comment to be BS.

As for the wolf currently?  No one has seen the wolf since Tuesday, and I'm guessing he has found a path out of the city.....leading to the forest.  

For probably most of the last past century...wolves weren't that common.  Since the 1990s, with the fences torn down between East and West Germany....the wolf community has come back.  I doubt if there is a week that goes by now in Germany where some report of a wolf-human encounter has occurred.