One thing i would say could of easily happened, if that wolf, scruffy as he called it, decided to grab his foot and take off with it, their would be feck all he could do... ...
They are opertunatists and meat is meat out their...lol...but, as skycat says, he was full with lemmings most likely, so changed his mind...
let gordon come back in the mid winter when they really do get hungry and its pitch black and let him try and get near them then without getting eaten...lol