"Patrolling"

Blaze walked slowly along the fence of his 20-acre home. He had just gotten up in the warm summer sun and decided to go out and play with the cows a bit. The cows were always fun to chase around, as long as the bull wasn't around. He raised his head and crouched down in some weeds when he spotted a small group of cows. There weren't any calves or bulls, and there were only three here.

He dashed out of the bushes, running toward the cows. He barked playfully as one of them ran. The others didn't even seem to notice. He chased it until it got tired and turned around. It charged at him and he turned tail and ran back. The cow finally gave up chasing him and went back to join the others. He watched it go and finally he sat down looking across his huge yard.

Blaze was focusing on a tasty-looking pigeon not far off, when he saw a sharp movement out of the corner of his eye. He saw the cows panicking; running around in circles and making loud, distressed moo's. He got to his paws and scented the air, but the wind was blowing toward the cows, so it was useless.

He walked to the cows, trying to make out what was causing them to panic, then he saw another dog who was going after one of them. He drew his lips back in a snarl as he saw it look up at him. He ran straight toward it, barreling into it and managing to pin the dog down. He never kills anyone, he always gives them a chance to leave. He could have killed it right there, but instead he asked, "What are you doing here?" in an angry tone, his teeth still bared.

Blaze snorted then stepped off of the female. "Get out of here before the farmer sees," he said, motioning with his head toward a small gap in the fence. "He'll be here any moment now to see what the commotion was. If your still here, he'll shoot you." He turned and slowly walked back toward the farmers house, going to meet him there.

Blaze stopped and turned around, "Because he thinks you'll steal his cattle. The farm was ruled by wolves before, the would come in and kill the cows and sheep. So he got me and there haven't been any ever since I ripped that one wolf's ear off..." he said, remembering the first day he got here.

"I've seen him shoot at anything that gets too clost to the cows. If the cows panic, I trap whatever is causing it, and he comes. I never let him actually kill it though, I always let them get away in time. But sometimes they are stupid enough to go after another cow, so the farmer ends up shooting at it," he added.

Angel walked along the fence, her almost solid black coat shimmering in the sunlight. Her muscle lines moved powerfully and sleek. She crawled underneath the fence and began to chase a cow calf as she noticed the other Shepard was distracted. SHe raced after it, the cows scrambling away from her. She tried to bite it's leg, but only scrathed it.

Blaze was disrupted by more cows panicing. The farmer was on his way, and by now he was almost here. Blaze immediately turned and pelted after whatever was causing the cows to panic. There he saw another shepherd chasing a cow calf, its mother too far away to catch up. He bared his teeth and dashed in, bowling the dog over and getting it away from the calf.

Angel was disturbed from her hunting as the other Shepard trampled her. "Oh, will you please get off?" She said, pushing him off slightly and gently. She stood to her paws and shook off the dirt. "See what you did? Now I'll have to go hungry; Like I'm not starving now!" She growled, continuing her speech. "And I'm only here anyways because those dang humans took away my deer in the woods back there. It's because of them I'm causing them trouble!" She explained, walking away from the dog. But she stopped, hearing the farmer come outside. She turned her head to him, and dashed off to the fence, struggling to escape.

But Angel was a bit stuck, and was having a hard time fitting through the small hole. She pushed with her back paws and pulled with her fore ones, but it didn't help; She was stuck.

Angel turned her head back to the other side of the fence, trying to fit back inside. But it was hopeless, she was stuck.

Blaze growled angrily at the shepherd, but it didn't matter. At least she was leaving. When he saw the farmer he almost walked up to meet him, until he saw that the two other dogs weren't gone yet. He hesitated, not knowing what to do, and finally ran for the closest dog- Star. He pushed her gently, but hard enough for her to move. "Go!" he yelled at the dog, nudging her to the hole. He looked over to the hole in the fence and sighed as he saw that the shepherd from earlier was stuck. He froze, not knowing what to do. The farmer was alredy here and he was walking toward him and the two dogs.

Blaze watched her go, and he turned around to face the farmer. Maybe he could stall him long enough for the two to make it out. He walked over to the farmer and jumped up on him. Blaze wasn't suprized to see that the farmer had a gun. A small pistol. The farmer pushed Blaze away and continued walking in the direction of the two dogs. 'What is he going to do? Shoot them?' Blaze thought, staying where he was. The farmer took aim, but with his failing eyesight he shot the fence instead, making the hole bigger. "Run now!" Blaze barked as the farmer took aim again.