Dog Story

Just outside of Stroud today, the trail took us through a field where we saw a border collie hard at work. That is, he was resting in the field next to his equine herd that he was pretty obviously watching out for. I stopped and got the picture below. The collie wasn’t aggressive or anything, but he didn’t  take his eyes off us for the whole time we were there.

As we were going through the stile at the end of the field,  a lady was entering with her two dachsunds. We surprised the dogs and one of them gave us a couple of barks. The lady said, “Never mind him, he thinks he owns this field.” I replied that
It looked to me like the collie up ahead owns this field. She looked ahead, saw the collie, laughed and said “You’re right, that one does own this field.”

Marty and I watched as the lady crossed the collie’s territory. Sure enough, he got up and met the dachsunds where the trail crossed near his horses. He sniffed the intruders, as they moved on. No drama. But the dachsunds never strayed one step off the trail.