The Rest Of The Story

Five years ago last fall I had posted the facts surrounding   GSD Baron's two hour disappearance, while hiking in the Maynard Underbakke state forest near Wykoff. My CSI investigative powers had shown, that having spooked a large deer, he took off after it. He had disappeared around a bend in the hiking trail. When I got there, I had found huge deer tracks in the mud on the trail. Unfortunately, this was the second time this had happened. This was all in Minnesota, where it is legal to shoot a dog chasing deer. Besides, it was already hunting season and I was very nervous that I might never find my puppy.

 Early the following spring a cure was in order. I took "Mr. Adventurous" with me on a trout fishing expedition to the nearby South Branch of the Root River. He was outfitted with his training collar. I had the remote in my pocket. All was well until the stream entered a cow pasture. We both noticed a large herd of dairy cattle at about the same time. I kept fishing. He went to investigate. He cautiously approached the herd. Remote in hand,  I watched. Several of the cows turned to faced him. The rest seemed oblivious.

 Now German Shepherds love to chase and herd. It's there thing. Baron got within about 10 ft. of the herd and started to bark. It was time for Lesson #1 in the "don't spook and chase large animals” curriculum. All from the Chapter titled "Tough Love." Ouch

 He quickly returned  running back to me.   He then spent the rest of the afternoon close by, below the bank of the creek, alongside me. There he kept peeking over the bank to try and determine which one of those big black and white "deer" had bit him. He hasn't chased any deer since. That’s the "rest of the story."

P.S. On the far left of the picture you can see one of the dangerous cows.....