Childrens Nursery Rhymes,

are full of stories about the big, bad wolf,

 well they do not get bigger or badder than the huge ones terrorising the village of Aleksandrovka, in Blagoveshchensk district, the autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, where packs of wolves had recently started terrorizing residents, although wolves had not been seen in the area four over four decades, but they recently turned up this winter,

the bad news is that several dogs have been found torn to pieces in recent weeks, and around twenty cows and sheep and horses have been eaten by the wolves, worse still the tame dogs are not fools, to make matters worse, guard dogs have apparently stopped barking to alert people about approaching wolves, “They don’t bark, the dogs are hiding in the kennels. There is no barking at all. Why? I’m not a hunter, I don’t know. They are probably afraid, they feel,” Aleksandrovka resident Mikhail Dementov said,

the people of Blagoveshchensk district became even more distressed last week, when local hunters managed to shoot dead a giant wolf that stood as tall as an average man on its hind legs, photos of the hunters struggling to pose the gigantic creature have been doing the rounds online in Russia, although the giant wolf has been getting a lot of attention on the internet, in Blagoveshchensk people are scared that such creatures may still exist in the forests surrounding their homes, “This year it’s been very difficult, the wolves have defeated us,” local hunter Igor Baranov said. “We have no good hunters left.” it would be a bit tactless for me to say, 'who's afraid of the big, bad wolf', so I will not.