Beasts|“The first thought was that I would get a good video,” says Rostedt. Very soon the plan was forgotten.
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Erik Rostedt’s dog walking in Kirkkonummi became dangerous when a wolf appeared on the scene.
The wolf approached Rostedt and his dog, although he tried to back away and howl.
There have been a lot of wolf sightings on Kirkkonummi recently.
In the end, the situation ended with a call to the emergency center.
From Kirkkonumme by Erik Rostedt dog walking took a nerve-wracking turn on Wednesday evening.
A little before ten in the evening, Rostedt’s smooth-coated retriever fell behind on the leash and started sniffing the ground intensely. When Rostedt turned to look at his dog, he saw another creature on the sidewalk – a wolf.
“The first thought was that I would get a good video,” says Rostedt.
However, the idea of the video was soon forgotten, as the wolf was clearly interested in Rostedt’s dog. The dog barked a few times cautiously and then began to try to escape.
Then the wolf started to trot towards Rostedt and the dog.
Kirkkonumma there have been a lot of wolf sightings recently. HS is too made news from a few observations.
According to the Uusimaa regional office of the Finnish Game Center, it seems that the number of wolves has increased in Western Uusimaa.
During the current year, the police have also received more reports of sightings of wolves than in previous years. The police department of Länsi-Uusimaa had about ten wolf-related alert missions during September, the inspector said Markus Ramstedt for HS before.
Rostedt and the dog’s torment during the evening run continued, because the wolf, despite howling, did not back down. It kept getting closer.
The dog walker slowly backed away from the wolf, keeping eye contact with it the whole time.
“Every time the dog barked in a certain direction, the wolf seemed to take more steps towards us. It felt like the wolf kept the dog as its prey.”
Rostedt already began to think about how he would act if a wolf attacked.
“I was more worried about my dog than myself. That one should hit the throat or the stomach if a wolf attacked a dog?”
Suurpedot.fi website by when encountering a wolf, you should act exactly as Rostedt did: that is, try to get away from the situation.
“Remember that a wolf, even if it seems tame and harmless, is always a large wild animal and a large predator. Avoid running away, even if that’s your first reaction,” the page advises.
If the wolf continues to behave threateningly, and the situation cannot be removed immediately, you must avoid direct contact with the wolf and try to behave as calmly and fearlessly as possible.
However, if a wolf attacks, resistance is important:
“If a wolf catches up to you or bites you, you must either scare the wolf away or make it stop attacking you by fighting. When the wolf experiences fierce resistance, it abandons the attack. The exception is, of course, wolves suffering from rabies.”
Rostedt thought in the threatening situation that he must get to the shelter of the courtyard of a nearby terraced house. “Just knock on the neighbor’s back door, if nothing else,” he mused.
Finally, he was able to reverse with his dog up the hill into the courtyard. Then the wolf howled. Rostedt breathed a sigh of relief.
“Yes, it scared the hell out of me. Quite a hot situation, I’m just saying.”
The wolf sighting happened at the intersection of Abrasinmäentie and Teknikonti. The wolf followed about 100 meters to the housing association’s yard.
After the incident, Rostedt called the emergency center. It turned out that he wasn’t the only one who made a wolf sighting.
“On the same evening, two others probably ran into the same wolf. All three observations took place within about half an hour.”
According to Rostedt’s estimate, the closest the wolf was was about five meters away from him and the dog.
Encounters with large predators are relatively rare in Finland. Finland’s four land predators are the bear, wolf, lynx and wolverine.
In the video below you can see the previously described wolf sighting from Kirkkonummi.
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