Yesterday morning I woke up and thought to myself 'what am I going to write about today?' I already mentioned the intense heat, I am going to be gone all day crocheting with some friends (yes I crochet), and that's my day.' I didn't want to write about something so boring, so I thought about just not writing. I went upstairs to shower. I was in the shower, washing my hair and I happened to look out the window that faced east. I saw a creature standing in the grass. It was a large, black, dog like creature. It was tall. It was feral. I shouted 'What the heck is that? Dale, Dale come look at this!' My husband came running into the bathroom, whipped back the shower curtain and stared. 'What?' He said. I told him to look out the window, not at me. He looked, and decided it was a dog. I disagreed, so he went out to call it. While he was on his way to the front door, the creature looked at me, and I knew it wasn't a dog. Dale called to it and it whipped its head in his direction and then took off into the field. It loped away, they turned and looked back, then loped a bit further and turned and looked back again, then ran away. I got out of the shower, ate and booted up the computer. Dale left for work. I looked up pictures of German Shepherds and wolves. I wanted it to be a dog because I live in Southern Alberta and wolves are unheard of here. I called Fish and Wildlife. I talked to them for a bit and descrived what I saw. They told me they were glad I called, because they had reports of the same thing near a town about 15 kilometres from where I live. They wrote down my legal land description and said they were going to track its movements in the county. They thought it might be a wolf-dog hybrid, and reminded me of the wolf-dog that had wandered around the countya few years ago, until a farmer shot it. That animal was sent in for DNA testing, and had its picture in the paper.
So there you have it, on a day where nothing was supposed to happen, I saw something pretty cool!
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