On Sunday wildlife services confirmed that wolves killed a bear training hound in the town of Wilson in the northwest corner of Rusk County.
The dog was a 9-year-old black and tan female. A caution area is a four-mile buffer around the depredation site. Bear hunters are urged to exercise greater caution if they plan to train hounds or hunt bear with hounds near any caution area, especially if near an actual kill site.
Wolf packs have pups in spring and then later will use rendezvous sites from mid May to late September, after the pups are big enough to leave their den. Adult wolves are very defensive of pups at rendezvous sites and will attack other predators, including dogs, that get too close to the rendezvous site or the pups.
The DNR suspects the wolves involved were from the Northern Blue Hills Pack.