A new sign at the Mendenhall Lake warns people to keep their dogs away from Romeo (not named as such) because they could get lice from him.
Juneau Empire has a story on the infestation. Apparently wolves all over Alaska have cooties now. Remarkably, state biologists are now intervening by leaving ivermectin-laced meat near wolf dens. I don’t understand why the intervention is appropriate, though—Are humans to blame for the lice? Did they perhaps come from dirty schoolchildren’s dogs?
I think ivermectin’s a pretty safe drug, at least. It’s a dewormer for dogs and cats and horses, but I took it as a cootie prophylactic for a year in a forest in Africa. It did what it was supposed to and I still have my liver.
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Tags: biological intervention, cooties, dewormer, drugs, romeo, wolf
