Thanks for the response and I now understand why you keep them close. Hope Abby and Keeper keep there distance.

Ralph

A modest story on this . . . . one winter day some years ago, in the pasturelands around our home, Abby and Keeper were ahead of me when they took off after a pair of coyotes and were over the horizon in the blink of a eye . . . . I literally ran a mile in big boots, up a hill, and stood on a rise looking down on a forest where they'd disappeared.

I whistled and yelled for 15 minutes before they finally reappeared . . . . I still have no idea what they were doing in there all that time with those coyotes.

Even in places like the pictures in this thread, a hearty wind and vacuous spaces can quickly drown out any whistling or yelling you might do to verbally control them . . . . and they may not know where to return to if they're distracted and run off after a prize . . . . lost dogs washing up on acreages after a coyote chase aren't unusual in our area.

Abby and Keeper have a four acre back yard though, fenced so they spend most of their lives running around without leashes, digging for rodents in the tall grass or chasing deer along their side of the fence.

No leashes for Keeper in her yard . . . .



Rick C
www.goldentales.ca

Ah ... love those pics on a Monday morning.

Thanks. So beautiful!!

Beautiful beautiful pics. Thanks for sharing.

You and your golden's have the best adventures! I love to explore with mine but we don't have so much space to roam like you do.

Beautiful pictures.