Yesterday morning Mini was barking at something all morning, we knew something was near but this happens a lot of days.  She can smell something near and we are petty sure her yapping keeps whatever it is away so we don’t discourage her… It’s her job.  Around 10, she went crazy looking up to the parking lot, our cue to pay attention.  It was a huge moose right behind the house.  She came flying inside and Lily went flying outside but stopped at the edge of the house, they know when they are outsized luckily.  He took cover in the trees right behind the house but was a little confused and scrambled around a little bit until he jumped down into the gulch, crossed the creek and up the far bank, that is straight up about 15’high, in 2 steps!   And he was gone.  Mini was tramatized!  She shook  and huddled in my arms for about an hour.  Once she settled down a bit, we went up to investigate the prints.  She bounced about 6″ off the ground with each bark as we approached.  She slowly crept up on the first print which are over a foot deep.  She stuck her head down it as far as she could, pulled it out and gave it hell, barking at it for a minute or 2 before going onto the next print and doing the same.  So cute and so funny.   She spent all day barking at it.  
The first reaction is always to make sure the dogs are safe when anything wild comes around that I followed Liliy outside to call her back that I didn’t grab a camera and missed the shot!  I did get a photo of his track.  

   
 Mini is standing where he came down the bank.  The wood shed is just out of the photo to the right.  Lily is modeling her new haircut.