A disturbing video captured the wolf’s agonizing final moments as it was paraded around a Wyoming bar by hunters before being shot dead in a parking lot.
creepy images, Obtained by Cowboy State Daily Wyoming Game and Fish Department researchers captured a large wild dog with a shock collar around its neck, tied to the corner of a bar, and a muzzle attached to its face.
The new video appears to have been taken after Cody Roberts, 42, allegedly ran over a wolf on a snowmobile on February 29th.
In the first clip, the wild animal was simply blinking with a gun in its chin.
The wolf was lying curled up, blinking slowly, and I heard someone say, “I’m getting ready to get up.”
Another video showed the captive animal sprawled on the floor, slowly twitching its legs.
The wolf appears to be the same one Roberts was photographed holding at a bar in Daniel, Wyoming.
Roberts was pictured smiling and holding up a can of beer, with red tape wrapped tightly around the muzzle of his gun.
The suspect ran the wolf over and incapacitated it with a snowmobile, but instead of killing the wolf, which is legal in Sublette County, he took the wolf to his home and then to a bar, police said.
According to the Cowboy State Daily, Roberts paraded it to other bar patrons before taking it to the back of the building and killing him.
He was subsequently charged with illegal possession of a live wolf and fined $250.
Game and Fish Department officials now say Roberts admitted to “possessing a live wolf” on Feb. 29, according to an incident report obtained by the Cowboy State Daily. .
He also allegedly told the warden that he kept a wolf at his home and “later brought it to Daniel’s office.”
“On March 4, 2014, Roberts agreed to meet with Director Haley and me in Pinedale, and did so in the presence of his attorney,” the brief incident report said.
“The violation regarding possession of live wolves was explained to Mr. Roberts at that time.”
But animal rights activists say Mr Roberts should face harsher punishment for his treatment of wild animals, with more than 77,000 people accused of “torturing, abusing and murdering these innocent animals”. An online petition has been signed asking for Daniel residents to face felony charges.
“Animals have the right to feel safe and be spared unnecessary suffering,” the petition says.
“If the person being tortured was a human being, he would be immediately sent to prison.”
The petition also argues that charging Roberts with a felony would send a “clear message that animal abuse will not be tolerated.”
The newspaper reached out to Roberts for comment.
