Disturbing video has captured the anguished final moments of the wolf that was paraded around a Wyoming bar by a hunter before he fatally shot the animal in the parking lot.
The unsettling footage, obtained by the Cowboy State Daily from the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, captured the large, wild canine with a muzzle on its face, tied up in the corner of the bar with a shock collar around its neck.
The new videos were apparently captured after Cody Roberts, 42, allegedly hit the wolf with his snowmobile in another disturbing incident on Feb. 29.
The disturbing footage, obtained by the Cowboy State Daily from the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, captured the large, wild canine with a muzzle on its face, tied up in the corner of the bar. Wyoming Game and Fish DepartmentIn the first clip, the wild animal could be seen just blinking with the muzzle around its jaws.
“He’s getting ready to get up,” one person can be heard saying as the wolf lays curled up, slowly blinking.
A separate clip showed the captured animal sprawled out across the floor, slowly twitching its legs.
The wolf appears to be the same one Roberts was photographed holding at a bar in Daniel, Wyoming.
It had red tape wound tightly around its muzzle in the photo, as Roberts smiled and raised a can of beer.
The wolf was captured lying on the ground, twitching its legs before its death. Wyoming Game and Fish DepartmentHe had allegedly disabled the wolf when he ran over it with a snowmobile, but instead of killing it — which is legal in Sublette County — took the animal to his home and then to the bar.
After parading it around for the other bar patrons, Roberts took it behind the building and killed it, according to the Cowboy State Daily.
He has since been cited for illegal possession of a live wolf and fined $250.
Cody Roberts, 42, holds up a wounded wolf with its muzzle taped.
Game and Fish Department officials now say Roberts admitted “he did possess a live wolf” on Feb. 29, according to an incident report obtained by Cowboy State Daily.
He also allegedly told wardens that he had the wolf at his house and “later transported it to a business in Daniel.”
“On 3/4/24 ROBERTS agreed to meet with Warden Haley and myself in Pinedale, which he did with a lawyer present,” the brief incident report read.
Roberts was fined $250 for the violation, a penalty that Game & Fish said is the only one it has the power to enforce. Facebook/Jeanne Ivie-roberts“The violation for possession of a live wolf was explained to ROBERTS at that time.”
But animal rights activists say Roberts should face harsher punishment for his treatment of the wild animal, with more than 77,000 signing an online petition calling for the Daniel resident to face felony charges for “the torture, abuse and murder of this innocent creature.”
“Animals have just as much right to feel safe and be spared any unnecessary pain,” the petition says.
“If it was a person being tortured, the man would be in jail immediately.”
The petition also argues that bringing felony charges against Roberts would send “a clear message that animal cruelty will not be tolerated.”
The Post has reached out to Roberts for comment.
