Is it me, or do the authorities seem overly keen to shoot animals these days? Cows in a field near a school, now some wolves. I suspect that the wolves were well fed and generally behaving like wolves, ie. not an immediate danger to humans, so probably candidates for tranquiliser darts, which I think happened to one.
But then health and safety will have a bearing, along with frustrated police firearms officers who do all that training and never grt to shoot at anything for real.