Kickass and Mike Adventure by Bill Stokes

Attributon: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Bill Stokes

Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Phyllis wisely chooses to stay home, as the keeper and his son Mike head north with a number of missions on their itinerary:

*Find out just what it is that motivates grown men to turn bear hounds loose to chase all creatures through the peaceful summer woods in the name of “training.”

*Discover why Wisconsin is the only state where such a travesty is allowed–even encouraged.

*Visit the site where wolves, defending their pups, recently killed an invading hound, for which the state will pay the hound owner $2500.

*Put out the Canadian wildfires.

*Reminisce endlessly about Bass Lake and Westfield days when both the keeper and Mike were much younger–and not so careful about doing really dumb things.

*Talk about the women in their lives, and the incredible differences they made, and are still making: Thank you Phyllis, Sarah and all past and present.

*Arrive back home safely with their biases and outspokenness all intact.