Dear TTR, I am having too nice a day to want to get into a theological or otherwise argument with you. Please take it seriously and to heart when I say to you that I love you as a friend and want you to have just as wonderful a day as I am having. I would rather talk about families, farms and critters. Have you ever seen one of your favorite dogs chase a deer across the road, and then a minute later seen the deer chase the dog back across the road? I have.
When I was younger, folks in these parts raised beagles, for rabbit and bird hunting. I still recall sitting on the porch down in Crouch Hollow listening to my beagle sing as it ran a scent trail. Our chow and sheperd mix (named Chris ... we got him for Christmas when I was eight) would run the field trying to find that beagle, jumping up over the tall grass to sight for the trail made by the beagle crashing along with head down, nose to the ground. Those farming those fields now keep the grass mowed and bailed, so a beagle wouldn’t be hidden as it ran, if there were any to run now. City folks have so infiltrated the area that the ‘noise’ of a beagle singing is considered a nuisance. Of course, down on my Mother’s land, wild turkey are still heard gobbling on the occasional summer/fall evening, up on the hill among the Oak and Hickory woods.
I've got two border collies. We were out walking in some big open country...my dogs jumped up a large fawn...and they gave chase. I could see they weren't gonna catch it...so I didn't call them off. They generally give up fast..and they've never caught one yet.
Anyway they got out of sight briefly...then they both come back running hard to beat all get out...with momma doe right on their tails. She was gonna give them "what for"...
I was rolling with laughter..and they both had stupid looking looks on their faces. Ha!!