The Anonymous Letter, the Sheriff, and the Mountain Lion: One Maremma Family's Wild Month

Hi Reader, I want to tell you about a Maremma Sheepdog named Hudson, because I think everyone who's ever had a neighbor complain about a barking dog needs to hear this one. (And so does everyone who's ever been that neighbor.) Mary and Dan, two of my puppy owners in rural Washington, brought home littermates Hudson and Ripley about a year and a half ago to guard their homestead's goats, ducks, and chickens. The dogs have done exactly what Maremmas are bred to do — until a few months ago, when...