Wolf Kills Cows, Wolf Bites Human, Wolf Goes to Town, Wolf Released to Kill Again

She wasn’t born to a normal pack, no not AF 924, she was born in a den in Catron County during the spring of 2005. This wolf was born at the height of a spate of cattle killing that was occurring on what is now known to the locals as the Catron County Killing Fields. Her mother was the famous AF 511, or the Brunhilda wolf, an animal best known as Fish and Wildlife Services cover girl for their wolf recovery publications. For those who don’t know, Brunhilda was a Frankish queen who was known for her love for of torturing her prisoners. The name itself means ready for battle. Perhaps the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) chose the name wisely knowing something that most rural folks don’t. AF 511 lived up to her name and after several years of releases and cattle depredations that had nearly ruined several ranches, she was finally slated for permanent removal from the wild. She and her pups including f-924 were finally taken out the summer of 2005...Her daughter now grown and trap wise AF 924 is back in the Gila wilderness and carrying on the family name, along with a belly full of pups. Just last week, she was trans-located for the second time into New Mexico barely six months after her second removal from the wild. Two releases in less than two years, that seems to be an oddity but due to her hereditary penchant for killing cattle, she too was briefly removed from the wild for [management purposes]. That means that if she had been left on the ground to kill one more cow or calf or colt, she would have been handed a death sentence or if lucky, trapped and taken into captivity forever. FWS and the Mexican wolf recovery team cut their losses and picked her up before it was too late and they lost her forever....