Past generations used dogs to guard their flocks. Driving wolves to extinction wasn't a deliberate effort, it's just what happens when humans expand into a pre

Past generations used dogs to guard their flocks. Driving wolves to extinction wasn't a deliberate effort, it's just what happens when humans expand into a predator's territory, displace its normal prey, and then opportunistically kill it, while denying it access (via the aforementioned dogs) to those succulent sheep they replaced the deer with.