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Published September 30, 2010, 12:00 AM

Chris Stoppelman and Pep-E


G Chris Stoppelman, an avid coon hunter who lives near Monticello, Minn., shows off his prize Treeing Walker Coonhound, Pep-E, on Sept. 17, just hours before the hound was killed by timber wolves during a night hunt near Gonvick, Minn. “It was the last picture ever taken of Pep-E alive,” Stoppelman said. “I never would have guessed that in nine short hours he’d be dead.”
Read the article: Coon hunter copes with losing prize hound to wolves