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14-year-old girl was chased by a wolf

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Saturday, January 10, 2026 • 11:22 AM UTC - in Denmark

14-year-old girl chased by wolf

A 14-year-old girl on her way home from sports in Oksbøl, West Jutland, was chased by a wolf.

Nature Agency will now examine the video and try to find out why the wolf came so close.

By

Per Smith Vinther ([email protected]) 11 minutes ago

Friday evening turned out differently than expected for 14-year-old Anne Puggaard, who on her way home from the sports hall in the western town of Oksbøl suddenly saw a wolf right next to her:

- I was just walking normally, and then I saw it out of the corner of my eye. And then I turned and went into a panic and started filming right away. After I stopped filming, I called home and said "mom, I don't know what to do", and it came right up to me, maybe under a meter, says the 14-year-old Anne Puggaard.

Anne Puggaard felt pursued by the wolf, and it can Henrik Vej Kastrupsen from the volunteer Wolf Defense Group in Oksbøl understand:

- There's no doubt that it's chasing her. I can also see that it looks like a young wolf, which is also a little confused and a little scared at one point in the video, But it's clearly following after the girl.

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Mother still shaken by wolf

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Anne Puggaard's mother, Dina Puggaard, is also still shaken by the incident. She received the call from her daughter when she was in bed:

- I jumped out of bed and called to my husband that he should go get her. But luckily there was an older married couple who had taken her with them in their car and drove her home, says the mother.

Henrik Vej Kastrupsen from the Wolf Defense Group explains that they, along with the Nature Agency, will be looking at the video to see why the wolf came so close and why it pursued the girl.

- As a starting point, we in the Wolf Defense Group just go out and try to bark and clap and scare the wolf out of town. It could well be that we with time may have to realize that we need a little more to make these wolves learn not to go into town. The big and overarching task is to spot wolves that have changed their behavior.

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