Man speaks out after wolf attack, calls incident entirely unprovoked

Salahub was able to pull himself into his truck before the wolf was able to do more damage. He sustained a deep bite to his calf and was bleeding profusely.

Salahub then wrapped the wound with t-shirts and he was fortunate enough another trucker driver, with experience as a first responder, was travelling south towards him.

“He took a look at my so-called bandage I made out of my t-shirts, looked at it and said it’s not good,” Salahum remarked.

“He got everything out of this First Aid kit, plus the First Aid kit from the truck behind him and they cleaned as much as they could my wound and wrapped it up properly.”

Salahub later received medical attention at Cameco’s Key Lake mill before being seen by a doctor at a hospital. He is currently being treated for rabies as a precaution as it is still unknown whether the wolf was rabid. The Saskatchewan Conservation Officer Service’s Wildlife Human Attack Response Team is still investigating.

Salahub is going public with his story because he wants people to know he in no way provoked an attack.

“I just want to say if it was them being provoked by a wolf and everything else, what would they do? I’m trying to save my life,” he said.

“I am 72 years old and I was fortunate enough to be able to get away from it. I’m suffering a little bit right now, but it’s not going to deter me. I want people to have the facts. It was unprovoked. I didn’t even have so much as a cigarette in my hand or anything else. I was just doing a visual walk around my vehicle.”

Wolf attacks in Saskatchewan are very rare. In the last 22 years, there has been four documented attacks with one being fatal.

derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com

by Derek Cornet

Man speaks out after wolf attack, calls incident entirely unprovoked

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