Most people don’t want to go anywhere near wolves. Or, if they do, their main goal is to shoot them. But these two men took a different attitude to a wolf they found caught on a wire fence next to a road: They helped him get free.

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See, that wolf wanted nothing to do with them either. It just wanted to get the hell away from humans, maybe eat some deer, not be caught in a fence. You know, wolf stuff.

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