Bring her back in, put her to bed. ... But she was never fussy, really. And within two months she was sleeping her nights, so I lucked out. But it's definitely different, because you can't just come home and relax right? You have to take after your kids so- by nine o'clock yeah you're- you're like grandma you want to go to bed (laughs). ... My friends will tease me. They're like "Well come on after you put your kid to bed."

Speaker: Well, I have some close, close calls. ... Out there in- in the- like the cattle you never knew the- what cattle the guy bought. You get in the pen, the first thing you knew one was taking after you, so you had to duck under something. Interviewer: The cow would come after you. Speaker: Chasing you, yeah. ... (Laughs) You just dive underneath something. You-know. I told the kids "Never go in the barn. I never want to see you in the barn."

... we brought all the cows home and there was one cow we couldn't catch so, it had about a foot of snow, so my friend and I went out with a tractor and a truck and he got out in the middle of the field chasing the cow and it took after him. He dove underneath the tractor. He just made it under the tractor and I was up in the bush and he hollers at me. He says "Get out of there, Gordon, she's coming after you now."

Speaker: Chasing you, yeah. ... (Laughs) You just dive underneath something. You-know. I told the kids "Never go in the barn. I never want to see you in the barn." 'Cause I never knew when they go in the pen, eh, and then something would take after them. Interviewer: But the cattle got out lots of times.

Yeah it's a- our- our other cat was this part Siamese- ... A-- and ah he used to protect property. and she does too. And ah another cat came across, our cat took after him. Cat ran out on the road and got killed (laughs)- ... On the highway (laughs). Our cat stopped at the egde.

Interviewer: Do you ever see bears up here? Speaker: (laughs) What the day before yesterday? ... Yeah we- we walked down here for exercise and there's one on the road ahead of us. We were a little concerned so we come back because- and got the car and went down because this guy- not for us (inc) but if he takes after the thing and he might get hurt.

And um, I used to go to the bush to cut timber and of course she'd come along and I'd give her heck for it. And ah, she'd laid in there all day and wait for me to come back. And then the one day she took after a deer and after that she was good. Very very good dog. The best I ever had.

... my father drove along. And he just- his eyes pretty near come out from the other side of the street. Well, he stopped his old car, a twenty-nine DeSoto, and he took after us. But we were able to outrun him, through a swamp just.