Bull Moose Running.....what is probably happening now

Moose (in the winter) is the main food for wolves here. We have no deer or cariboo because of the depth of the snow.
What happens is the wolf band breaks up..... each going in pairs or threes off looking and searching.... trying to find a moose. If they can get it to run, the moose is at a great disadvantage because it can not outrun the wolf and it then becomes scarred. The wolves start to dog it... (probably where the word doggily came from). The wolf pair just keeps a distance behind...
After a day or so the wolf pack behind the moose grows as other members of the band come across the tracks.. Now the moose has five wolves behind him and the wolves can take time to rest as a couple of them are always fresh.
At some time one brave wolf will bite and draw blood... but they keep that moose moving.. getting it exhausted, and keep biting at its back legs . At the end of the running of the moose, the moose can only stand there as the wolf pack circles lapping up any blood that flies to the snow. They stay away from the front of the moose where they can get hurt by teeth or kicking, but they start to tear chunks off the back and side and soon have the guts out. A mooses vitals are deep and in the front of the moose. A Moose can still be alive for 4 days and be half eatten.(We have a friend who has a small plane and in over 30 years out here flying all the time has seen horrible sights) We can also read the footprints in the snow. You very seldom come across bones or hair because the wolves eat everything. Just the jaw bone and teeth or hip joint. I alway hang them in a tree.... to say a moose died here. One pack of wolves probably kills 3 moose a month X's the seven months of snow here. Out here....the wolves can multipy quickly if they have no enemies.
Where we came from there were lots of white tail and mule deer and no wolves. The last year we were there and out on our trapline we came across fresh signs in the snow ( we had been there the previous evening at 6 pm...no wolf tracks.... and it was now 9:30 am the next morning). There were two wolves and three whitetail deer in this drama. It was a switch back.... the trail had to zig zag down the hill it was so steep. The three deer must have been standing half way down the hill, where the one wolf took two bounds and hit that deer knocking it off its feet and the two of them slide 40 ft down to the bottom trail. The wolf killed that deer there quickly, all within 6 feet circle. The other wolf did the same thing and had it's deer also. They ate everything overnight.... not a bone or piece of skin was left, just a handful of hair. You could see the two wolf tracks heading out after the deer tracks that had escaped.
We just got a letter from a friend of ours down there outside of Big White Ski Hill and in the letter was a wanted poster from one of the cattle ranchers there asking for information on who was poaching his expensive breeding stock. (He had lost 12 calves and 3 cows) Well his range is where those pair of wolves where 4 years ago. There is probably a good size pack there now.
Another story....
I once had the misfortune of witnessing a buck antelope being dogged by a coyote... and it has not left my memory and still disturbs me. This was an event that probably took 8 days and I only saw 1 hour of it. We were driving in central Alberta out on one of the small paved roads when I said " Hey there's an Antelope" We pulled over and got the binoculars out and watched it coming from afar. After 20 minutes it was obvious something was falling this antelope. It kept stopping and looking back. Away back was a coyote, which would stop when the antelope stopped and start moving again when the antelope moved. The pair just kept on getting closer and closer until the Antelope jumped over the fence and stood in the centre of the pavement in front of us. It stood there for 15 min. no traffic and us just sitting on the side of the road. Then it jumped over the other fence and headed to a watering hole where a buffalo was penned up. The antelope did not drink .... just stood about 100 ft from the Buffalo. The coyote stayed on the outside of the buffalo pen just waiting .. We thought .... Good, the coyote will go away. But that antelope jumped over the fence heading away from us and there on his trail went the coyote. This will go on and on and finally the coyote will have the advantage and it will be all over.
Down at our other trapline in southern BC the coyote would kill a whitetail deer on the river ice in front of my cabin about once a week in the winter and this was an area of 1/2 km that I could see. I can't imagine how many they take each winter down there.
We firmly beleive in the balance of nature. Everything must eat to live and lots die. Somethings are just not as pleasant to think about.