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VARMINT HUNTER LA GRAND

 

 

 

 

“LOOKOUT SAM THAT’S A COTTON MOUTH” SHOUTED RAY.  SAM WAS RAY’S DOG AND HE HAD A SNAKE CUT OFF FROM THE WATER OF RAY’S POND.  AS HE RAN BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE SNAKE AND THE EDGE OF THE WATER THE SNAKE HAD COILED UP AND WAS STRIKING AT THE DOG.

 

AS SAM BACKED OFF FROM THE SNAKE RAY RAISED HIS REMINGTON MODEL 870 12 GAGE SHOTGUN AND BLASTED THE SNAKE WITH A LOAD OF #2 STEEL SHOT.  THE SHOT KNOCKED THE SNAKE BACK SEVERAL FEET AND SAM RAN IN AND GRABBED THE SNAKE AND GAVE IT A VICIOUS SHAKE.

 

RAY IS MY NEPHEW THAT LIVES ON A RANCH IN EAST TEXAS NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF EAST MOUNTAIN.  SAM IS A DOG THAT SOMEONE DUMPED OUT ON THE ROAD NEXT TO RAY’S RANCH WHEN HE WAS A PUPPY.  HE IS A BLACK LAB MIXED WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 

 

FRANCES, RAY’S WIFE TRIED TO GIVE HIM AWAY BUT NO ONE WANTED HIM BECAUSE HIS HEAD AND FEET WERE TO BIG FOR HIS BODY SO THEY WERE STUCK WITH HIM.  THEY TOOK HIM TO THE VET TO BE CHECKED OUT AND THE VET TOLD THEM HE WAS TEN MAYBE TWELVE WEEKS OLD AND WOULD LOOK BETTER AFTER HE GOT OLDER.

 

AS TIME WENT BY AND THEY FED HIM HE BEGAN TO GROW AND WAS A VERY HAPPY DOG.  HE WOULD RUN HAPPY LAPS (RUN IN CIRCLES) BUT HE HAD A PROBLEM.  HIS REAR END OUT RAN HIS FRONT END.  THEY THOUGHT HE WAS THE HAPPIEST DOG THEY HAD EVER SEEN.

 

WHEN SAM WAS A FEW MONTHS OLD HE HAD A GAME HE LIKED TO PLAY.  HE WOULD SNEAK OP BEHIND YOU AND LIGHTLY NIP YOU ON THE BUTT TO GET YOU TO CHASE HIM.  THIS EARNED HIM A NICKNAME FROM PEYTON, RAYS GRANDSON.  PEYTON CALLED HIM THE “BUTT BITIN’ DOG.”

 

AS SAM GREW HE BECAME VERY PROTECTIVE OF EVERYTHING ON THE RANCH.  AT NIGHT HE WOULD TAKE UP HIS GUARD SPOT ON THE PORCH AND WATCH AND LISTEN FOR ANY VARMINTS.  BE THEY HUMAN OR ANIMAL.

 

ONE NIGHT HE HEARD THE CHICKENS SQUAWKING AND RAISING CAIN, HE RAN DOWN TO THE HEN HOUSE AND THERE WAS A POSSUM TRYING TO CATCH A CHICKEN FOR HIS SUPPER.  SAM STARTED BARKING AND SET UP SUCH A RACKET THAT THE POSSUM RAN OUT OF THE HEN HOUSE AND UP A NEAR BY TREE.

 

THIS TOOK PLACE ABOUT TWO O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND RAY AND FRANCES WERE IN BED SOUND ASLEEP.  FINALLY SAM’S BARKING WOKE RAY UP AND RAY SLIPPED HIS PANTS AND HOUSE SHOES ON, WENT INTO THE KITCHEN AND GOT HIS FLASHLIGHT AND  SHOTGUN. 

 

WHEN HE STEPPED OUT ON THE PORCH HE COULD HEAR SAM DOWN BY THE CHICKEN HOUSE SO HE WENT TO SEE WHAT KIND OF VARMINT SAM HAD THIS TIME.  AS HE ROUNDED THE CHICKEN HOUSE HE SAW SAM LOOKING UP INTO A TREE AND BARKING.

 

RAY SHINED THE LIGHT UP INTO THE TREE AND SAW THE POSSUM.  SO THAT’S WHAT’S BEEN BOTHERING OUR CHICKENS RAY THOUGHT.  HE SHOULDERED HIS REMINGTON AND SENT THE POSSUM TO POSSUM HEAVEN.

 

AS IT FELL TO THE GROUND SAM GRABBED IT AND GAVE IT A VIOLENT SHAKE THEN DROPPED IT AND TROTTED BACK TO RAY AND SAT DOWN.  HE LOOKED UP AT RAY AS IF TO SAY WE DID IT AGAIN PARTNER.  RAY REACHED DOWN AND GAVE SAM A PAT ON THE HEAD AND TOLD HIM “GOOD DOG.”

 

 

 

THE NEXT MORNING AS RAY WAS TELLING FRANCES ABOUT THE POSSUM THEY HEARD SAM BARKING DOWN BY THE POND.  RAY WONDERED WHAT HE HAD FOUND THIS TIME.  RAY TOOK HIS SHOTGUN AND WENT TO SEE.

 

RAY WALKED UP ON THE DAM OF THE POND AND SAW SAM ON THE OTHER SIDE.  HE HAD SOMETHING ON THE GROUND AND WAS BARKING FOR RAY TO COME SHOOT IT.  AS RAY APPROACHED HE COULD SEE THAT IT WAS A MOLE AND SAM HAD ALL READY KILLED IT.

 

“COME ON SAM IT’S DEAD, YOU ALREADY KILLED IT.  LET’S GO BACK TO THE HOUSE.”

 

BUT SAM WOULD NOT GIVE IN AND COME TO THE HOUSE UNTIL RAY SHOT THE CRITTER, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS DEAD.

 

NOW A MOLE SHOT WITH A LOAD OF #2 STEEL SHOT OUT OF A 12 GAGE SHOTGUN DOESN’T LEAVE MUCH FORENSIC EVIDENCE BUT THAT SATISFIED SAM AND HE WAS READY TO GO BACK TO THE HOUSE.

 

THEN THERE WAS THE TIME SAM HAD A RUN IN WITH AN ARMADILLO … BUT NO THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 1999

 

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