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“Free.” So, I was told a sad story about how his owners had stopped be- ing livestock owners and the dog was wasting away from not having anything to guard. Well, naturally being a good 12th gen- eration Yankee, I thought, “Damn, the dog has a work ethic!” And I told my neat and sweet that I supposed I was fine with getting a dog. What I should have said
was, “Don’t ever, ever, get anything off the Internet just because it’s free! A few days later, unan- nounced, this SUV shows up in the yard at about
breakfast time and the wife sees it’s the dog’s owner come to drop him off a little bit sooner than we expected. This should have rung warning bells, but I went out to tell them it was the right place, (not that the chickens in the drive, the goats in one pasture and the cow in the other wasn’t enough of a clue). I noticed that the SUV
was sitting pretty low to the ground, but I put that off to pot holes, after all it was mud season out there and shocks are a casualty of living the good life. I greeted the lady and then she went around to
the rear of the vehicle to let the dog out. She raised the tailgate and called the dog, but nothing hap- pened. So she reached in and pulled. By now I’m standing in front of the SUV, just in time to watch the vehicle spring into the air as the dog exited the rear. What came around the
car was the size of a small horse, a husky small horse at that. I was assured by the owner that it was, in fact, a dog It did look like one upon
closer examination. Big and white, with just a bit of black on its ears. Also,
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it was big, had lots of real thick white hair, and it was big, and had what appeared to be a laid back personality. Also, it was real big. The nice lady told us
the story again about how it guarded alpacas, and how it was used to poultry. She also added that she had had to trick the dog to get it into the SUV because it didn’t like to ride at all. She also re- marked that the dog was in fact, FREE. Now keep this in mind, “Don’t ever, ever, get any- thing off the Internet if it’s free.” We put the Great Pair
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O’ Knees (named “OD” by the way, I’m still leery of the implications behind that...) in the pasture with the goats, who, ap- parently by not looking like alpacas caused him mental anguish, chasing him out into the depths of the field where he hid behind some brush. We then put him in the
other pasture with our young bull, BBQ. They seemed to get along al- right, and so we decided to leave him there with “the tasty cow” for the night. The two pastures were side by side, and it might give the goats a chance to get acclimated too.
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way they were supposed to up until five AM (that’s what’s called the morn- ing for any of you farm challenged people) when the dog started talking. “Woof, woof, woof, woof.” He had a real deep voice so it didn’t wake me up immediately. When I fi- nally came to, it had in- creased to, “woofwoof- woofwoofwoof.” Sort of like an old-style steam train going full speed...... if trains went “woof,” in- stead of “chuff.” I got up, pulled on my
work pants (originally blue, but after several encounters with Clorox in the wash, now a sort of
bright purple). Grabbed my winter bathrobe (al- ternating BRIGHT green and black stripes) slipped my boots on, and grabbed my True Value hat with “master electrician” writ- ten in big white letters over a hunter safety or- ange background. A black nylon dog leash heavy enough to use as a tow rope was the finishing touch.
“Woofwoofwoofwoof- woof!” The dog was glad to see me. His tail was wagging. I supposed it was his tail anyway, there was so much fur every- where it was hard to tell. The motion was at the opposite end of where the sound was coming out too, so I supposed that it was a safe bet. Going into the pasture,
I groped around the end that was making the noise and found a collar about the size to fit a WWF wrestler and attached the leash, at which point the dog led me out of the gate at a rapid trot. There ap- parently WAS something out there and the rear end had stopped moving. He was now all business. We trotted by our sum-
mer neighbors’ house which is literally on our boundary. The dog was only letting out an occa- sional mutter now, and it was so deep that I wasn’t worried about it bothering anyone, mainly the wife who was still snoozing 500 feet away. I wasn’t con- cerned about the neigh- bors, they NEVER came up except in the summer, and on rare weekends. Let’s face it, central New Hampshire in mud sea- son is not what you’d call a tourist Mecca. That’s when I saw the upstairs curtains move. Suddenly the Great Pair
O’ Knees stopped, I kept my momentum and was brought up short by run- ning into the canine equivalent of an air bag. If he had been a retriever See O.D. on 43
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