A More Dangerous Game Bears On The Golf Course, Deer On The Windshield, Wolves On The Walk Back Home

THERE'S A whole industry that depends on wolves," said Kim Carnegie, Kenton's father, from his house in Oshawa. "People love wolves. Guides lead people out into the wilderness at night to listen to the wolf howls. Do you think they wanted to acknowledge [wolves] had killed a human being? Of course not."

After his son's death an obsession with wolves gripped Kim Carnegie. For a while he was planning a trip to Saskatchewan, he said, to shoot any wolves he could find. He researched the animals and their habits at great length, with murder on his mind. But in the end he called off the vengeful journey. "Wolves are predators," he said. "I don't hate them. They were following their own way."

Wolves do not make moral decisions, he decided. They simply hunt.