Glaslyn cries wolf, investigation reveals false alarm
Yesterday’s dangerous alert for wolves in the village in Glaslyn turned out to be a false alarm.
The province’s emergency public alert program, SaskAlert, put out the advisory on Nov. 22 at roughly noon which was then cancelled at 3:31 p.m. According to Bill Zimmer, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, the alert was cancelled when an investigation revealed there was no sign of a wolf at all.
“We are thinking in this instance it was a large dog that was seen and residents may have mistaken it for a timber wolf,” Zimmer said. “After conducting the interviews, investigation and looking at the tracks we determined it wasn’t a wolf.”
According to Zimmer, false alerts are uncommon but not unheard of. There were similar wolf advisories in the village before and since a municipality is in charge of issuing alerts, Zimmer felt someone was probably trying to be safe rather than sorry.