The shot-wolf issue generated strong emotions

According to origo.hu, the director of the Pecs zoo shot the escaped wolf, the animal rights activists now are demanding his head from the city mayor. But Miklos Szatyor could have done nothing else much – wolf trainer Zoltan Horkai says, who was freaked out by the vengeance of the laity.

Anger of people is growing due to the shot of the wolf escaped from the Pecs zoo, the Animal Protection League has already started to collect signatures in order to replace Miklos Szatyor, director of the zoo.

The petition has been signed by nearly ten thousand people, the organizers of the league and other animal rights activists ask the Mayor of Pecs to fire Szatyor.

Anyways, the wolf spent only one day at the zoo: it was arrived with its partner from Italy on October 30^th, but it already escaped from his runway on Saturday morning. It tore and jumped the 2.5 meter-high electric fence.

Then the wolf wandered around Tubes, in the southern side of Mecsek, the zoo staff found there on Sunday afternoon.

The wolf was finally shot down by the director with live ammunition from about 60 meters. The director said he could not stop the animal otherwise, it behaved threatening and the colleagues with anesthetic bullets were not there. Miklos Szatyor told lives revolved in danger, since the wolf was aggressive and families were hiking in the forest, in spite of the ban.