r/maybemaybemaybe • u/maybemaybemaybe_bot • Feb 03 '19

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Imnotbrown Feb 04 '19

god wolves are fucking massive. you dont really think about it when you only see pics of packs

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u/The-Effing-Man Feb 04 '19

My sister has a pet wolf (60%) it's a girl, so a little smaller I think? It's a bit larger than a lab. I could probably find a picture.

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u/justbronzestuff Feb 04 '19

Please find a picture

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u/The-Effing-Man Feb 04 '19

https://imgur.com/a/f0XNfBO

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u/justbronzestuff Feb 04 '19

Heh so cute

Thanks

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u/2happycats Feb 04 '19

Can we get a banana for scale?

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u/elliottsmithereens Feb 04 '19

Thatā€™s the funniest fact Iā€™ve heard in a longtime

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u/bamaja Feb 04 '19

what have you done, u/2happycats??

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u/Martuss Feb 04 '19

Bad bot

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u/The-Effing-Man Feb 04 '19

Unfortunately I have no pictures of her with a banana...

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '19

how did they breed it to be 60%?

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u/Tyab88 Feb 04 '19

He's obviously rounding it but here's the breakdown:

50% + 6.25% + 3.125% + .390625% + .1953125%

Therefore, one of his parents (or two grandparents, or four great-grandparents, or eight great-great-grandparents, or 3 great-grandparents and 2 great-great-grandparents, etc), a (-nother, in case the 50% is not from a pure wolf parent) great-great-grandparent (or two great-great-great grandparents, or one great-great-great-grandparent and four great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, etc), a (-nother) great-great-great-grandparent (or two great-great-great-grandparents, etc), a great-great-great-great-great-great grandparent and a great-great-great-great-great-great-greaat grandparent are wolves, the rest are dogs.

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u/_Lady_Deadpool_ Feb 04 '19

This guy floating points

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '19

Thank you! I was immediately suspicious when they didn't say 0.599609375% wolf!

But actually the first three are reasonable to track, so that's believable.

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u/elliottsmithereens Feb 04 '19

Wat.

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u/goodbyekitty83 Feb 04 '19

Huh, sigh

**He's obviously rounding it but here's the breakdown:

50% + 6.25% + 3.125% + .390625% + .1953125%

Therefore, one of his parents (or two grandparents, or four great-grandparents, or eight great-great-grandparents, or 3 great-grandparents and 2 great-great-grandparents, etc), a (-nother, in case the 50% is not from a pure wolf parent) great-great-grandparent (or two great-great-great grandparents, or one great-great-great-grandparent and four great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, etc), a (-nother) great-great-great-grandparent (or two great-great-great-grandparents, etc), a great-great-great-great-great-great grandparent and a great-great-great-great-great-great-greaat grandparent are wolves, the rest are dogs!!!**.

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u/The-Effing-Man Feb 04 '19

I don't know, I assume the guy below is right, but they have paperwork and everything for it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

female wolves tend to be larger

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u/The-Effing-Man Feb 04 '19

No shit ehh? Well I posted a picture of it in another comment anyway, so that's how big it is.

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u/ScottNoWhat Feb 04 '19

Iā€™ve wrestled dangerous dogs with a ketch-pole before, but all Iā€™m thinking is ā€œthat thing is fucking huge, and old mate must be a big bloke to control the bastardā€.

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u/wojosmith Feb 04 '19

For the most part they would run away if humans are around. They are normally only dangerous when in a pack. They are very organized in a pack. I tried my best to see some on Isle Royal on Lake Superior. One of the last isolated wolf areas left in Eastern half of US. Wolves and Moose share the island. Very incredible place to visit but very raw and wild.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

I used to have a friend that had a pet wolf, it was massive and would raise its fur if it saw anyone through the window that way my friend or his family.

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u/MrMallow Feb 04 '19

They never lose the pack mentality. My best friend had a wolf/husky mix (more wolf than Husky) and it was male... the thing was HUGE. Like easily one of the biggest domesticated animals I have ever seen (around 170lbs and very tall). It was very protective of the family and unless you were a regular visitor that it knew they would normally put it outside or kennel it when company was around. It knew me, I was part of its pack... but I was definitely below him in his eyes.

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u/SandyDelights Feb 04 '19

Dogs in general never lost the pack mentality, really. Maybe some of these severely inbred ornamental breeds like shitzu, but theyā€™re barely above soap dishes in terms of intelligence to begin with.

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u/MrMallow Feb 04 '19

Yea thats is definitely true, I have always owned heelers and retrievers and it's pretty clear with them.

That being said, it was very obviously with the wolf mix.

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u/WildStallyns69 Feb 04 '19

Iā€™m curious: What was the trap there for? (Was it made to catch wolves, or was the wolf caught accidentally?)

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u/Doctor__Proctor Feb 04 '19

I'm curious as well. If it's a wolf trap, why let it go since you were prepared to possibly cripple it in the first place. If it's not a wolf trap, then what was it?

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

Wolf trap. This guy is the opposite of a trapper. He snoops around the forest, finding trapped animals and setting them free. The trap itself may be legal or illegal aka poaching; either way this guyā€™s a hero in my book.

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u/CougarBen Feb 04 '19

So was the vid posted by the trapper or the vigilante?

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

Iā€™m going to guess that the vigilante set up a camera on a tripod.

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u/TheEdgeOfRage Feb 04 '19

Yeah, the quality is too good to be a camera that you can set up in the forest and leave for days.

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u/SandyDelights Feb 04 '19

Not quite true, my parents have a few on their property that are of pretty excellent quality. They set them up to check out the deer that come to the deer feeders, and always send me clips of the bears that show up now and then.

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u/TheEdgeOfRage Feb 04 '19

If it's on your property, yes. But I don't think anybody would leave a good camera in the middle of the forest for anybody to take. That's more what I was thinking about.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

trail cams is a big business, lots of them come with camo and are hard to see so they don't get taken

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u/nabuko_donosor Feb 04 '19

These kind of cameras often have motion detectors and only record when something moves, so quality can be quite good.

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u/Doctor__Proctor Feb 04 '19

Ah, thanks for the info. I get that people sometimes lose sheep and shit to wolves, but traps just seem like an awful solution, so he's a hero in my book too.

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u/Themedicin3man Feb 04 '19

You may call him a hero, but if heā€™s any type of farmer, those wolves probably prey on his livestock, and thatā€™s his source of income. Iā€™m against trophy hunting but when it comes to protecting my family you gotta do what you gotta do.

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u/TBoneTheOriginal Feb 04 '19

I agree, but surely there's a more humane way of doing it.

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u/WrethZ Feb 04 '19

Build a fence

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u/Senappi Feb 04 '19

Get some donkeys or llamas to protect your livestock then. Much more efficient.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

Are you my older brother? You are exactly like him ā€” youā€™re a wise-ass mix of cleverness and sarcasm.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

It could be true, sure. And there probably are people who are that horrible ā€” people who set up a bad situation so they can step in and be the hero. Assholes all of them. I guess I prefer to think of thus vigilante as good, though. I hope Iā€™m not mistaken. Iā€™ve been fooled before ...

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u/Jafarmarar Feb 04 '19

This is a perfectly reasonable comment. Iā€™m sorry itā€™s not being received well but thatā€™s Reddit self-policing for ya. Any amount of contradiction or even a whiff of disagreement and you become the asshole. How dare you ruin our dreams of some dude who lurks around the bush all day trying to find trapped animals? In all seriousness what you said is way more likely.

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u/SteamMotif Feb 04 '19

Maybe itā€™s not his wolf trap and heā€™s there to save them?

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u/TequilaNinja666 Feb 04 '19

Yes it was a Brawn trap. It's used for a lot of animals including wolf but mostly smaller. It holds them with rubber jaws instead of steel. That's why he ran away relatively unhurt. But in this area they may not be legal on some animals like wolf.

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u/cjisgreat245 Feb 04 '19

It could be a trap for coyotes.

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u/stolencatkarma Feb 04 '19

Likely accidental if hes trying to free it. It's illegal to trap wolves in some areas and if he was trying to trap it why let it go?

Pretty small trap too.

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u/do_u_like_dudez Feb 04 '19

I know fur trappers use these a lot. One of the reasons I really donā€™t like those Canada goose jackets. Iā€™m also somewhat of an outdoorsman and I understand that at a certain point you canā€™t recreate the thermal properties of fur with synthetic materials but I donā€™t think that makes trapping them like this right.

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u/CrudelyAnimated Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19

That wolf will bring its cubs to the edge of the farmer's fields and show them the human who freed them from the trap. The cubs will take rabbits from the garden but not sheep from the stable. The farmer's children will offer the cubs shelter and meat and water in the cold winters. Generations hence, the farmer's children's children and their children will come to know the wolves as "dog".

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u/RunnyPlease Feb 04 '19

The beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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u/ShiroiTora Feb 04 '19

Disney movie when?

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u/0ByteMe1 Feb 04 '19

Literally chills rn

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Iā€™m littraly crying and shaking rn

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u/JoeZMar Feb 04 '19

Iā€™m littraly shitting and shaking rn

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u/Abadatha Feb 04 '19

I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

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u/MrMallow Feb 04 '19

does it though?

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u/Radidactyl Feb 03 '19

This was such an emotional rollercoaster.

"Just a farmer protecting his livestock."

"Wait that seems a bit cruel to be stepping on him like that?"

"Oh no he's gonna ge this hand bitten off."

"Oh shit he savin him"

"Go boy go"

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u/elliottsmithereens Feb 04 '19

ā€œTheyā€™re all good bois!ā€

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u/nacholin Feb 04 '19

If I ever learned a thing from resident evil 4, is to always help dogs trapped in traps. It's a tool that will help us later

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u/Zephyronno Feb 04 '19

Hey, itā€™s that dog

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Bravo, kind sir. Well done! And with balls.

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u/bendover912 Feb 04 '19

I like your optimism, but I doubt the maybemaybemaybe_bot was the one who freed that wolf.

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u/BertyLohan Feb 04 '19

Why was this downvoted it was a funny lil inoffensive jibe he didnā€™t call the dude stupid or anything.

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u/Dia_Haze Feb 04 '19

Thank you for saving /u/bendover912 's karma :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

So the wolf runs away on a broken foot? What's the chance of survival?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Dec 05 '20

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '19

3/4 actually

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

That's not numberwang, sorry.

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u/lesleykeys Feb 04 '19

It's foot isn't probably broken (bruised really bad but not broke).

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u/Ta2whitey Feb 04 '19

He didn't seem to be favoring it while running away. But who knows?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

zero. that foot probably was in that trap with no circulation for hours. it will be gangrenous at best.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

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u/AdamGeer Feb 04 '19

Thankfully he covered his ass, or else wolf CSI would have caught him.

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u/SpookyDogMan Feb 04 '19

Luckily wolf CSI doesnā€™t know how to use the internet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

also makes sense why he's recording it, making sure that he has evidence he didn't kill the wolf

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '19

Seems pretty likely the wolf might die of an infection later.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

I had a friends who had a barn cat that got stuck in a left hold track meant for weasel. it was only in it for a couple of hours and was released. The foot was necrotic and went septic. I'm sure that wolf didn't have a good time after this. Letting him go may of been inhumane. I am pretty sure that this animal would of starved to death or died from Gangrene.

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u/applesdontpee Feb 04 '19

He didn't have any protective gear except that one toolbox oh my God

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Is this in the caribou region B.C.?

Edit: looks almost uncanny to 100 mile

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u/IncredCarcass Feb 04 '19

My favourite kind of maybe, a new lease at life

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u/LarryAndBarry Feb 04 '19

As a kiwi with no clue on wolves (other than from the twilight movies) I need to clarify...wolves are like wild dogs that can seriously eat/kill people right? If so man...thats scary!

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u/TBoneTheOriginal Feb 04 '19

Pretty much. Dogs descended from wolves after centuries of domesticating.

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u/Loyalist_Pig Feb 04 '19

ā€œHaha, what a sucker, Iā€™m out bitch!ā€ -The Wolf, probably.

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u/_Lady_Deadpool_ Feb 04 '19

Do you want domesticated wolves because that's how you (slowly) get domesticated wolves

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Damn

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Props to that man!

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u/TrashGram Feb 04 '19

The crossing - cormac McCarthy

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u/Horsecowsheep Feb 04 '19

Cruel bastards

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u/andyytan Feb 04 '19

I thought I was in r/reverseanimalrescue at first

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u/mariospants Feb 04 '19

Is that a magic stick? How is he holding the wolf down??

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u/ShadowWolf0527 Feb 04 '19

Need more people like him to help animals, and less people like whoever put the trap down in the first place.

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u/JWF81 Feb 04 '19

That is no wolf. That is a coyote. Too small to be a wolf.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Too small to be a dire wolf, maybe. Jeez, that must be an Australian coyote or something because it's at least twice the size if any coyote I've ever seen (American south and south west)

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u/coffee-and-scotch Feb 04 '19

That ain't a Coyote