Replying to a message of Mike Roberts to All:

 MR> I just watched my one dog chase the other dog around the yard today.
 MR> It is a common practice. Well.. they got going so fast, My one dog
 MR> had an bit of an accident. I don't know what he hit as he was
 MR> running. I think it was a soft spot near the bird feeder. Anyway,
 MR> what I saw then amazed me. His front feet went down and his whole
 MR> back end went through the air. He went butt over tea kettle in the
 MR> air. I mean a full 360, then came half way arond the second time and
 MR> landed on his head. I looked at him. Expecting the worst. I mean You
 MR> don't see crashes like that, even on Your best NFL footage. He got up
 MR> and kinda looked at me embarassed like, but then went right on
 MR> running. Ahh the resilience of puppies I guess. Anyway gonna keep my
 MR> eye on him for a couple of days. Hopefully it was a lot better than
 MR> it looked. If it didn't look so painful it would probably be funny.
 MR> It definitely was cute, and I wouldn't want to see a big dog do that,
 MR> no matter what. Just sharing the time of day..

Several of my dogs (I have ten) will on occasion suddenly start sniffing, then
madly digging in the yard.  Finally figured out what they were after - gophers.
They caught a couple of the little devils, too.

A couple of days ago after a late afternoon rather nasty thunderstorm I was out
in the yard with 2 of the dogs and one of them spotted a raccoon that had wandered
in.  One of them wasn't much bigger than that raccoon but she went after it anyway.
Of course, by the time the reinforcements - a 110 pound black lab - got there she'd
chased said raccoon up a tree.  Raccoons spit something like a cat does when they're
threatened.

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