Re programing. haha thats a good one. All thats going to happen is the "reprogramed" one will sit back, watch the rest of the pack kill the livestock, then when he smells dinner come and get some. For a while. Stomach over comes the brains training after a while.
Chris, if you look at the OTC hunts in all the states. Use the quota or lack of them from 10 years back. Or 5 years. Biologists are VERY slow to impliment usefull data so what they have learned has only JUST begun to be implemented. I mean when the feds fund the research, it tends to take years to complete.
Then also use the controled hunts as seperate data.
Watch them by zone and by state. There have been a systematic reduction of allowed permits being sold.
Funny thing here in Idaho, the areas that they reduced drastically the elk permits, they also had the highest wolf quotas to boot when they put on their one season puppet show hunt.
The data speaks for its self, because if there was not an issue, then they would not also be reducing the allowed tags and permits for the game animals.