kikiciao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the latest expedition involving the keeper and his son Mike will not rank up there with their attempt some years ago to float rivers down to New Orleans and only getting as far as Spring Green, but there is a similar aura of incompleteness about it.
The plan was to visit the area in Clark County where wolves, in defense of their pups, had recently killed a bear hound that had been part of the outrageously inhumane–only-in-Wisconsin–summer bear hound training program that attracts hounders from all over the country.
The hope had been to perhaps challenge that absurd hounder-sponsored regulation that says it is illegal to photograph hounder activity even from a public road.
Unfortunately, in patrolling the area of the hound kill, the keeper and Mike did not see any bear, wolves, hounds or hounders, though they stopped once and attempted to establish howling communications with either humans or critters.
In a recap, the project was deemed preliminary and begs to be extended farther north into more traditional bear-abuse country.
It was a great day cruising the beautiful Clark County woods and farmland, and the keeper and Mike made it home without the dramatic rescue operation of their earlier float to New Orleans.
They hope to go bear hounder hunting again, and in the meantime will be practicing their howling.
Photo by Bill Stokes