Too much excitement

I came home the other day to some excited kids.  They had been playing in the front yard and were "charged by a moose but Jack got it away from us!" We always have a lot of moose that visit the yard in the fall and spring; they usually come into sight in the early mornings or in the evening. No matter how often we see them, it's always exciting (and everyone always comes running) when someone says, "there's a moose in the yard!" Sometimes there are as many as three.  This huge old guy has been coming around a lot lately and is the one that caused the stir:

He's super big, but has a really small rack: my hunting BIL tells us that as they get older their  racks actually get small. We had one in the yard about a month ago that had a gigantic rack, and that was cool, too!

Sometimes I REALLY don't want a dog, but one thing that Jack is definitely useful for is warning the kids about moose when they're around, and chasing them off and/or keeping the moose preoccupied so they aren't focused on the kids.  When the kids want to go exploring in the woods, I always have them take Jack along.