Talk:Shape-shifter/@comment-7600752-20140128040526/@comment-98.211.75.105-20140205011812

Maybe it has to do with the fact that Edward and his family were there when a earlier pack was there, and that might have had knownledge or something that was lost before they could pass it on, or maybe he or someone in his family has seen a Child of the Moon before, and as there are many differences between the shifters and wolves mentally they assumed that the pack couldn't be true Children of the Moon.

It's said somewhere that Children of the Moon can't really control themselves, and are pretty much lost to the beast. They don't travel in packs, and usually only travel with one other wolf, and that one would be of the opposite gender.

I would guess that seeing as Edward can hear the pack's thought it shows that they aren't lost to the wolf so they can't be Children of the Moon.

There's also the possiblity that Edward has run into shape-shifters outside of the La Push pack. This is one of those things that needed to be fleshed out, but was never fleshed out.