Pack leader

The Pack Leader is a huge black dog with a black-and-tan head.

A Dangerous Path

 * The Pack Leader first appears in the prologue of A Dangerous Path, along with the rest of the dog pack. The dogs are guarding something for their Twolegs, and have been there for many moons.


 * When they are released from the "kennel-that-moves" to begin their duty yet again, the pack leader leads the rest of the pack to a tall fence, looking for a hole that he had found earlier. When he finds it, he scrapes more dirt out of it, making it big enough for the dogs to escape through.


 * The dogs escape, and start living at Snakerocks. They steal prey from both ThunderClan and RiverClan, almost instigating a war between the two Clans, who both think the other is responsible.


 * Tigerstar, the leader of ShadowClan leader, begins feeding them, killing rabbits by ripping their throats out, and leaving them at the mouth of the cave.


 * Two ThunderClan apprentices, eager to impress their leader, Bluestar, travel to Snakerocks against orders, to see what is stealing prey from ThunderClan. They are found by the dog pack, and one of the two apprentices, Swiftpaw, is killed. The other, Brightpaw, is severely injured, and loses an eye and ear to the pack.


 * Near the end of the book, Tigerstar creates a trail of dead rabbits for the dogs to follow. The trail leads to ThunderClan's camp, and at the end of the trail is the ThunderClan she-cat, Brindleface, who was killed by Tigerstar to give the dogs a taste for cat blood. A patrol of ThunderClan cats lead by Fireheart finds the trail, and attempts to break it, before realizing that the scent would still be there, even if the rabbits were gone.


 * Fireheart comes up with a plan to kill the dog pack. He evacuates the Clan, except for a few hand-picked cats, to be "runners", that will lead the dogs to the next cat in the line, eventually coming to Fireheart, who will attempt to get the dogs to fall over the side of the gorge, and eradicate them from the forest.


 * The ThunderClan cat's plan is coming to an end, and Fireheart can see the dogs following the next to last cat in the line, Graystripe. Right before Fireheart reaches the edge of the gorge, Tigerstar pins him down long enough for the dogs to catch up. The Pack Leader grabs Fireheart by the scruff of his neck, and violently shakes him, trying to kill him. Then, out of nowhere, Bluestar slams into the Pack Leader's side, knocking him over the edge.


 * The Pack Leader manages to grab Bluestar's leg, pulling her off of the cliff with him. The rest of the pack, not knowing what else to do, follow their leader over the edge to their deaths.