Lena Wåhlander in Källmyra near Östervåla looked out the window when her terrier growled and saw two wolves in the garden. Her partner counted four wolves from another window. The wolves were sniffing around 50 meters from the house.
Lena Wåhlander had taken her dogs out in the morning in Källmyra outside Östervåla. Once inside, her terrier started growling, prompting her to look out the window. “I saw two first. My partner was at another window and counted four wolves,” Lena Wåhlander said. The wolves moved through the garden, sniffing the area where she and the dogs had just been. “They were nosing around where we had been,” she recounted. They were only 50 meters away. “I think they are cool,” she said of the sighting. This is not the first close encounter for Lena Wåhlander with wolves. A couple of years ago, while walking dogs with an acquaintance, one dog returned with wolves chasing it. “They were not hunting, but running after in a playful way,” she recalled. She finds having wolves so close uncomfortable but is most concerned for sheep farmers at risk of attacks. “No, I would not want to be a sheep owner,” she said. Lena expects more wolf encounters in the future. “Yes, I think it will happen again.”
