Dogs are often protective of people and spaces, and Cameron the Weimaraner is no exception as he fights an intruder encroaching on his most sacred territory…the backyard.
It was a calm sunny Autumn day, when bam!—it happened. I was on the front lawn with Mike, supervising his landscaping work, when I saw a golden flash out of the corner of my eye. Suddenly, a pronghorn buck was coming my way at full steam. I have tried catching these speedy critters, and now one was coming to me! Game on.
Well, as the pronghorn buck saw me, it turned left, ran into a barbed wire fence and was entangled in the fence by the horns. That fence kinda body-slammed the buck down, so I ran over and piled on. Pronghorn hair and dust was flying everywhere as we struggled. I had my prize!
Suddenly, I saw Mike was coming to help me. By his yells of “Cameron, get away!” I quickly discovered he had taken sides with the pronghorn. I thought we were a team…
Then, around the corner of the garage came another pronghorn buck running at full steam! It started my way, then turned and charged toward Mike. Good, he could have that one, I surmised. I saw Mike swing a fist when the speedy critter was a mere few arm’s length away from it, and that pronghorn quickly turned, ran across the front yard and disappeared around the corner of the house. I still had my pronghorn, and it was kicking and pulling.
Suddenly, I felt pulling on my collar, and now Mike had me. His restraint and tug back gave the pronghorn enough slack that it rolled over, became untangled, slid under the fence, sprang to its feet and was gone. It sprinted across the neighbor’s yard and disappeared across the ridge.
My prize was gone, and I blame Mike. After many failed attempts to chase and catch a pronghorn, I had one, but then Mike just had to intercept. To add insult, he grabbed a bag and collected much of the clumps of orange pronghorn hair while mumbling about tying some great flies.
It’s WILD here in the West!
— Cameron
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