Marshmallows and Wolves

We were packing up the tools after a small job on a country farm when an interesting thing happened. The young son of the homeowner came limping home in quite a bit of distress and was quite beside himself with pain and anxiety. He was covered in mud and after his mom calmed him down she got a bit of his story, which she related to me later. She told me that their family had learned, two days ago, that the neighbour who was training wild animals on his farm for the movie industry, had his six Timber Wolves escape their enclosure. Now it seems that the young man in distress was riding his quad through a muddy ravine on the back of their farm when he got stuck. As he was straining to free the small vehicle, a rather large wolf came at him. He told, between sobs, how he had kicked the wolf in the face and it sauntered off, leaving the young man to to run home for all he was worth, with a badly injured foot.

His mom had a rather quizzical look on her face as she was telling me the tale as if she was not sure she could believe him. Does he have a history of fabricating stories? Was this a cover-up for doing serious damage to the quad? Will we ever hear the real story? With all the recent bear attacks in Coquitlam and Port Moody, you would think that this would hit the media too. Stay tuned.