Daddy to the rescue!

On New Years Eve, Dave had quite the encounter in the woods and we almost lost Buck in the process. He had gone out in the woods on his property out back of his house to check the snares he had set for rabbit, and had taken Buck with him. On the way back, Dave heard a snowmachine coming up the trail behind them, so he stepped off the trail and into some brush. Buck went in the other direction, but still off the trail, into the trees. When the snowmachine came over the hill, the guy went off the trail and started after Buck, who took off running. The guy was obviously trying to run him down as he went OFF the trail to do so, and came within two feet of Buck at one point. Buck ended up running in a big circle and came back around towards Dave, who had not yet been seen by the guy on the snowmachine. Dave, in his rightful fatherly fury, ran out and clotheslined the guy, knocking him off his sled, and sending the sled into a tree, cracking the front of it. The other guy was obviously upset that Dave had crashed his sled, and started threatening to kill Dave, to which Dave promptly responded that he was on his property and then proceeded to beat him up to remind him not to come back. Neither of us can figure out why this complete idiot was trying to run down a puppy. Speaking of which, Buck was the perfect angel and sat right behind Dave, face peeking out from behind his legs, during the entire confrontation, and was very well behaved the rest of the night. Oddly enough, he seems much more appreciative of us as his loving protecting "parents" now...well, as much as a puppy can. :) We're just glad he's still alive!