Mutt

A mutt is a common term used to describe canines of mixed breeding. The term is also used to describe a type of werewolf featured in the Women of the Otherworld series of novels by author Kelley Armstrong. The first novel in the series was adapted in the Canadian supernatural drama series Bitten.

In the books and in the show, a mutt is a werewolf that does not follow a pack. Werewolf packs live by very rigid rules and laws, and those who either willfully violate or refuse to acknowledge those laws are branded as mutts. Members of a pack are charged with hunting down and killing mutts, particularly if they pose a risk to the pack. On the TV series, Malcolm Danvers was the former Alpha of the North American werewolf pack based out of Stonehaven in Bear Valley, New York. Having lost his position to his son, Jeremy, Malcolm relocated to Toronto and assumed the alias of businessman James William. He began secretly coordinating the actions of various mutts in Bear Valley, inciting them to turn others into wolves indiscriminately in order to form a loose yet volatile mutt pack of vicious murderers, psychopaths and pedophiles. Among those mutts within this group were Daniel Santos - an ambitious young man who wanted revenge against Jeremy Danvers for killing father, Thomas LeBlanc - a serial killer, Karl Marsten - a con artist, Zachary Cain - a thuggish brute and Victor Olson - a pedophile. They also recruited a former pack member named Samuel Boggs.

Their efforts resulted in systematically breaking down the stability of the Stonehaven pack through hit and run tactics. They killed Pete Myers, and later ambushed Antonio Sorrentino, which resulted in his death. They poisoned Jeremy Danvers, but he managed to survive. They invaded the home of Logan Jonsen, but he succeeded in fighting them off to protect his girlfriend, Rachel Sutton.

The mutts finally decided to amass a full-scale assault on Stonehaven, recruiting several random members to their cause. During this assault, pack member Clayton Danvers killed Samuel Boggs. Karl Marsten turned against the pack and assisted Elena Michaels in killing Thomas LeBlanc. Nick Sorrentino and Jeremy Danvers killed several of the mutt soldiers and Elena finally put a stop to Daniel Santos by punching a hole through his chest and crushing his heart. With everything in disarray, Malcolm Danvers chose to finally reveal himself to Jeremy as the mastermind behind the entire affair.

Known mutts

 * Amber
 * Daniel Santos
 * Karl Marsten
 * Samuel Boggs
 * Thomas LeBlanc
 * Victor Olson
 * Zachary Cain