In February 2024, Cody Roberts captured an injured wolf after hitting it with his snowmobile. He then paraded the animal around a local bar before killing it<\/p>\n
Locals are furious with Wyoming legislators after they refused to outright ban people from purposely running over wildlife with snowmobiles and other vehicles.<\/p>\n
State politicians are attempting to respond to global outrage over photos that emerged last year of a Wyoming man torturing a wolf after he hit it with his snowmobile.<\/p>\n
In February 2024, Cody Roberts paraded the injured wolf around a bar in Daniel, a small town near Bridger-Teton National Forest.<\/p>\n
A smiling Roberts even posed for a picture alongside the miserable animal, seen with duct tape wrapped around its snout, before he took it out behind the bar and killed it.<\/p>\n
Further outrage ensued when it came to light that Roberts was only fined $250 for the offense, which was deemed the illegal possession of a live, warm-blooded animal.<\/p>\n
An online petition demanding Roberts face harsher punishment has more than 26,000 signatures. A separate petition calling for the strengthening of Wyoming’s wildlife abuse laws has more than 25,000 signatures.<\/p>\n
Wyoming Wildlife Federation spokeswoman Jess Johnson said what Roberts did ‘came up over and over and over and over again’ during a conference on wolves she recently attended in Arizona nearly a year after the incident.<\/p>\n
‘So we need to do something,’ Johnson told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday.<\/p>\n In February 2024, Cody Roberts captured an injured wolf after hitting it with his snowmobile. He then paraded the animal around a local bar before killing it<\/p>\n