A short video causes excitement in Todtnau / Von Jonas Hirt.
The wolf is going around, the wolf is going around, there is a wild animal going around. Wait a minute: It wasn’t a wolf who hunted children in the popular game of catching, but a fox. You can confuse it, because the wolf is omnipresent in the Black Forest, although there are only a few proven animals here. One faction would be happy if more wolves would come back home. The other faction is afraid of grazing animals. This conflict is not intended to be the issue here, but rather confusion and what it can trigger.
On Thursday, two animals escaped from an office in Todtnau and were used there for filming. The animals are caught again after about an hour. Actually not a problem, you think. But there was enough time to tear a sheep. Above all, there was enough time for rumors to arise. Because someone films the animals, the clip spreads via Whatsapp and Co. and ultimately ends up on Facebook – mind you, not posted by the author of the film. But we save ourselves the digression about copyright.
Anyone who sees these two animals in the eleven-second long clip actually creeps the suspicion: Here two wolves are walking across the street. Because you don’t exactly recognize the animals that you only see from behind in this video. But wait a minute: Two wolves in the southern Black Forest, also in the vicinity of a residential area – and by chance is someone else on site who is filming? Anyone who briefly thinks about how likely it is that this really happened should be puzzled. The solution: In Todtnau, not two wolves injured the two sheep. The animals are wolfhounds, a cross between a wolf and a dog.
Maybe children in the southern Black Forest will soon be singing the wolf goes around – or the wolfhound before they run away. Perhaps future generations will also think a little more before posting videos on social networks.
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