Who Let The Dogs Out?

Above, one of the escapees. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Last night, I was all set to spend the evening watching two hours of Antiques Roadshow when a pack of four dogs were running around our street.

I didn't recognize them but they were hanging around my neighbor's horse pen. Concerned that they may attack the horses, I fired of some firecrackers that sent them running to another neighbor's horse pen. I notified my neighbor, who was coming home from work in Arizona. He wondered if they were his dogs, I said I didn't think so as I heard barking coming from his yard. But, I decided to check. Sure enough those were his dogs running loose.

So, I spent the evening getting them back to his yard. I thought an unsecured gate was were they got out, but it turned out that a wooden fence around his house was broken through. They were running around the community near Nandoh's and the shooting range. There's a saying about "herding cats", but herding dogs isn't any easier either. Luckily, the area were in had new perimeter fencing installed, so there was little chance they would be able to get onto the highway from there.

I followed two of them from the road to the shooting area and up Whispering Cedars Road to West Blue Cedar Road and home in the car. 

Above, you can barely see them, but I am following a St. Bernard and a
German Shepherd up Whispering Cedars Road. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

After getting the dogs back in the yard, I waited for my neighbor to get home. After he got home, he found the spot where they got out.

Well, at least the dogs are securely at home now. At least last night wasn't too cold out during all this.

I did manage to catch one hour of Antiques Roadshow.