SO HOW DO THE ACTIVISTS DIFFER FROM MICHAEL VICK?:

No one's howling when wolves eat dogs (CRAIG MEDRED, 12/30/07, Anchorage Daily News)

This has not been a good winter to be a dog in Alaska.

Aside from the frighteningly "normal'' dangers for domestic canines -- being struck dead by motor vehicles or dumped at the pound by owners who don't really care for pets -- natural dangers have risen up with a vengeance:

Dogs disappearing into glacier-like crevasses in the Kenai Mountains.

Dogs attacked and eaten by wolves.

You could almost say it's dangerous for Fido just to leave the house.

So where are the companion-animal lovers of PETA and the Humane Society, usually so quick to offer unsolicited advice?