Response-ability in wolf–dog conflicts

摘要: The conflict between wolves and dogs has been deemed as one of the most difficult specific issues in Finnish wolf policy. In this paper, we examine how materializes discuss role anticipatory knowledge enabling safe multispecies cohabitation. We have analyzed a dataset 201 wolf–dog narratives covering time period 26 years (1987–2013). This data consists local newspaper articles, records from wildlife management authorities, e-mail correspondence affected dog owners. Based on analysis material, conclude that preventing caused damage calls for response-ability, defined affective attuning to presence wolves. Such allows humans develop routines enable them anticipate presence, example by protecting monitoring their investing effective social networking. need situated sensibility necessarily leads critical evaluation habits keeping dogs. Hence, it also explains why there are no easy solutions conflicts. To become attuned may sometimes require more than what ready willing do. Thus, seems be thresholds response-ability across species. At same time, however, some events could avoided with fairly simple pragmatic solutions.