LOL! Wow! Please be careful. Yes, he would have made a great hat!
It was a fluke. I think he was across the road looking for a Goose Breakfast at the lake and he may have been dinged by a car on his way back; he was limping a bit. But, just some yelling and waving the nearest branch I could find, while holding onto the Lab’s collar (no easy stunt!) made him run off.
Still...he was WAY too close to us; about 20 yards too close!