Wolves disappeared from most of their range in the Lower 48 because they scared us too much. But they still run under the moonlight here. And they are finding chained-up dogs to be easy meals.

Tim Mowry, ace of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner's staff, wrote about another large dog reduced to scraps of collar and a few pieces of intestine in an article today. His lede is like something from a fiction novel:

"A wolf pack that has been commuting between North Pole and Two Rivers for the past month, eating pet dogs as they go, has apparently struck again . . ."