Lost in all the breaking political news recently was the decision by Colorado Parks and Wildlife allowing ranchers to use deadly force when protecting their working dogs against an attack by gray wolves.
The vote came Friday while all eyes were on President Biden COVID watch, the worldwide CrowdStrike tech outage, and on the heels of the wildly successful Republican Convention.
So, no one noticed except for a few newspapers.
Th,e Summit Daily News broke the story Saturday, and reports that Commissioner Chair Dallas May claimed the protection of working dogs was “inadvertently” left out of state regulations.
This inadvertent accident lasted for seven months after 10 wolves were relocated to the state in December. Gov. Polis personally opened the cages to set them loose on the Western Slope.
More than 30 cattle and sheep have been reported as killed by gray wolves since 2021, plus three dogs, reports Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The new protection rules only applies to guard or herding dogs, not pets.
No “Oops!” or apology was offered for the inadvertence.