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Is it true that sick animals specifically come to people for help? Dangerous Misconceptions You can't save: how to help wild animals in the city, and is it necessary to do it at all? Have you heard the news about how a woman brought a “sad dog” to the veterinary clinic, which in the end turned out to be a wolf? Of course we heard, because the entire Internet vied with each other in admiring her kindness and care for our little brothers. Here she is - a real woman, and will stop a galloping horse, and bring a sick wolf to the clinic! Do you want to know what really happened there? The news about the generous savior and the poor dog-wolf has been circulating for a long time, and each storyteller adds more and more heart-wrenching details to it. In some sources the wolf turns out to be wounded, in others mortally ill; these say that they first take him to the hospital under the guise of a dog - and then release him; others claim that after identification the animal was handed over to volunteers. Too many lies per square centimeter, don't you think? And rightly so, because there was no wolf! And women-saviors specifically in this story too. In fact, everything happened in 2019, in Canada. A man named Eli Boroditsky accidentally hit a dog, regretted what he had done, picked up the animal and put it in the back seat of his car. It was he who took the photograph of the “rescued wolf” - this is the same animal that Eli shot down and then saved. As it turned out later, the rescued child was not a dog, but a coyote: due to shock and injuries after the accident, the wild animal did not resist, so it allowed itself to be picked up and lay quietly the entire trip. The animal was eventually picked up by conservation officers and released back into the wild a short time later. The story is unusual, but not hype, it doesn’t collect likes or reposts, so someone smart decided to turn everything inside out and came up with their own version, and the rest followed suit. Well, okay, you say, you won’t find such nonsense on the Internet, so why bother? The fact is that this story has become popular - and because of this it is very dangerous. It very organically came about as confirmation of the myth that fox hedgehogs come out of the forest to people specifically for help. People already believe in this, but here you go, so much food for thought. In the comments under the fake rescue they even claimed that it was not the woman who caught the beast, but the sick wolf himself came to her for help. Oh how! And this is a very, very dangerous myth. Remember: wild animals never seek human help! If you meet someone other than a stray dog/cat/rat in the city, do not touch the animal! Contact the state veterinary station, game management department or other organization authorized in your region that deals with wild animal issues. Animals walking around the city should be dealt with by specialists, not just kind people. According to scientific research,