And a Little Bird Told Me [Article in Kane Republican]

This article reports that a group of fishermen visited the McCleery wolf park; one of the men, afraid of wolves, remained by the gate. After Dr. McCleery had shown the other three men around the park, he returned to the gate to find the fourth man perched in a tree. Suspicious, Dr. McCleery inquired about the man's strange behavior, and the other fishermen encouraged Dr. McCleery to make the wolves howl to prove how terrified the man was of wolves. Upon doing so, the man scrambled further up the tree and refused to come down until the car was brought right up to him. Partial text of the article is quoted below.

May 4, 1934

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That an unusual type of phobia was demonstrated at the McCleery wolf park the other day when a party of four Pittsburgh anglers stopped at the enclosure... one of the fishermen insisted on remaining at the park gate, explaining to Dr. McCleery that once while on a fishing trip into Canada he had been chased by a pack of wolves and has had a pronounced fear of the animals since, even dodging their cages when visiting zoos... returning to the gate after showing the other three sportsmen around the park, the physician-wolf fancier found, to his astonishment, that the timid member of the quartet had left his automobile and had perched himself atop a lower branch of a tree nearby... skeptically aware that the visiting anglers might be making him a victim of prearranged horseplay, Dr. McCleery voiced his suspicions...