Don’t laugh… wolves in Oklahoma?

[Jlingle]

Okay y’all don’t make fun of me for asking this….. but I’ve been told by 2 different people in the last month that they believe they’ve seen wolves in southwest oklahoma. I’ve never known there to be wolves anywhere around, but I’ve been wrong about other things before. The most recent report I heard, was that a guy saw what he believed were 2 wolves by highway 62 west of Lawton.

What do y’all think? Are they full of it?

 

[PBramble]

Possible, but the location is wrong. If you'd have said the panhandle I'd be more likely to believe it.

 

[OkieJoe72]

I’m always suspicious of claims made like this. There’s a slight possibility, but I think that it was probably large coyotes or possibly large dogs. I have a Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd mix that I could see some idiot thinking it was a wolf if it was out running around in the country.

 

[T. MIKE SMITH]

That area is the hottest place around- I doubt they would like it there, but who knows- some clown could have had them for pets and they got, or they let em loose.

 

[RickN]

Possible. Red Wolfs have be recorded fairly recently in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. They are a cross between other wolf breeds and coyotes. Were numerous at one time in Oklahoma but were pretty much wiped out. Government released a few breeding pairs back into the environment hoping they would reproduce. Not working well at this time.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

That area is the hottest place around- I doubt they would like it there, but who knows- some clown could have had them for pets and the got, or they let em loose.

This is what I’m thinking

Or just a big coyote with unique colors

 

[JEVapa]

Some of the coyotes here look like huskies coz they have a lot of chow. But there are coydogs around and some of them may look like that but it was probably just a regular old coyote.

 

[undeg01]

Probably 20 years ago, there was one in Haskell Co. it was running on the river between Hoyt and Whitefield. Everyone who reported it was accused of being crazy. Someone 3D Ed up killing it and they had th3 DNA tested. Turned out to be a wolf hybrid that had gone feral. So it was a wolf, like 97%, but had been someone’s pet at some point.

 

[JEVapa]

https://animalvivid.com/are-there-wolves-in-oklahoma/

 

[Okie4570]

Yes full of it.