Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience[1] observing wolves in subarctic Canada[2] by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart.

In the book, Mowat describes his experiences in a first-person narrative that sheds light on his research into the nature of the Arctic wolf in Keewatin Barren Lands, north of Churchill, Manitoba.

He concludes: "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be: the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer—which is, in reality, not more than the reflected image of ourselves.

[5] In a 1964 article published in the Canadian Field-Naturalist, he compared Mowat's 1963 bestseller to Little Red Riding Hood, claiming that, "I hope that readers of Never Cry Wolf will realize that both stories have about the same factual content.

"[5] Mowat's humorous response to Banfield's review appeared in a subsequent letter to the editor of the same journal -- ostensibly written by "Uncle Albert".

[6] In the May 1996 issue of Saturday Night, John Goddard wrote a heavily researched article entitled A Real Whopper, in which he poked many holes in Mowat's claim that the book was non-fictional.

"Mowat excoriated Goddard's article as, "...bullshit, pure and simple... this guy's got as many facts wrong as there are flies on a toad that's roadkill.