Sounds scary, I know. Between Hollywood and fairy tales, the big bad wolf has a fearsome reputation. Unless you are secretly a herd of goats though, you have nothing to be concerned about. I grew up in a remote wooded area where wolves were very common. I saw tracks all the time, but an actual wolf less than a dozen times in a decade, and always from a wary distance. They want nothing to do with the giant upright brightly colored primates. As my father explained, we are the scary monsters in the forest. Now, grizzly bears are a different story........
Reminds me of a story from Canada:
A greenhorn tourist arrives at a backwoods equipment store and proceeds to buy like crazy.
Seeing he's onto a good thing the salesman asks if he wants to buy some bear bells.
"Bear bells? Never heard of them."
The salesman shows him some little brass bells - the round ones with a little loop on them.
"What are they for?" the greenhorn asked.
"Well you sew a few around each of your trouser cuffs and when you walk along they jingle. The bears here this and keep away from you."
"There are BEARS in these woods?"
"Oh sure, we got black bear, brown bear, even some grizzlies!"
"How can you tell which ones are around?"
"Oh, that's easy. Just look at the bear scat - the droppings. Around here black bear scat contains a lot of berries and nut fragments as well as fish bones and the like whereas your brown bear scat has more bits of bone and fur."
"And grizzlies? What about grizzlies?"
"Oh, their scat generally tends to have little brass bells in it."
