[pyrnet] Wolf/Pyr meeting

["Gerry Kemske" <kemske@wi.mit.edu>]

Our neighbor's wolf got loose last night, as it does a couple times a year.  When he's home, he usually has it chained behind the house.  My husband went on the back stoop to call our big male Pyr Travis in for dinner and found the wolf and Travis smelling each other through the fence (4' chainlink).  Our Pyrs are heavily socialized and used to our friends and their dogs coming over to the fence to pat them and chat, although the Pyrs normally bark first before settling down to enjoy the company.  As we looked out last night, our neighbor came down from the road where he had been driving, looking for the wolf, and grabbed for its collar.  Only then did the wolf become aggressive, and began to slather and try to climb the fence after our dogs.  Jason dragged it away up to his truck and then our two began to wildly run the perimeter of the yard, which they did again this morning when first let out.  I don't know what to make of the behavior of the wolf.  Only once before did we met him/her, when I was walking Travis by flashlight along the road on a snowy morning.  The wolf was standing on the stone wall in front of his/her house and when we came along it cried and ran behind the house.  Later we could see where it had spent time during the night running around the outside of our fence.  Should I be worried that it might jump into our yard sometime after the dogs, or could it just be wanting their company?  Should I be worried that Travis did not go ballistic in its presence?  I have always been happy with his confident (if dominant) temperament.  Thanks for any advice.