"Yes," he says. "Both of those sorts of things live in this very forest, in fact, although not a lot of either. You might have noticed that none of them have ever eaten you. Wolves and bears don't usually bother people unless the people bother them first, or unless they are unusually hungry and there's absolutely nothing else around to eat. From a wolf's perspective, people are mysterious and best avoided. Now, sheep, wolves will happily eat sheep all day long if they can get at them. But babies are much harder to get to, since they tend to be kept indoors or at minimum accompanied by other, bigger people."