Rare Gray Wolf Appears in Western Mass.

Mar 04, 2008 By STEPHANIE REITZ, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- When more than a dozen lambs and sheep were slaughtered on a Shelburne farm last fall, wildlife officials suspected either a wolf that had escaped from captivity or a rogue mutt on a hungry rampage.



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