Pogonip (Angel Paws) by Taylor Jordan

Author:Taylor, Jordan [Taylor, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Short Stuff Press
Published: 2013-07-20T05:00:00+00:00

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Pogonip crouches outside the loading chute, the point of her muzzle just beyond the bottom gap.

“Go on!” the boss shouts, waving his hat.

The heifers start, stop, one backs.

Pogonip darts her face below the bottom board and bites a heifer’s ankle. The animal leaps forward with her fellows through the chute. Pogonip waits for another lull, watching intently as churning hooves slow down and speed up, coating her in dust. She bites again.

“Pogonip,” Jake calls from the pen. He has just stepped out, latching the gate behind him. “Don’t you suppose you need a rest?”

She turns, flattening her ears at the stern tone in his voice as she hobbles to him. One hind leg is still in a cast, though the ribs are giving her little trouble now and her lungs seem to be working as ordered.

He raises an eyebrow. “Were you helping?”

She pants a dusty smile back at him.

“I suppose you were doing a good job.” He reaches down, rubs her neck. “You always do. Better than us.” He glances toward the boss at the far end of the chute, still waving his hat. He looks at Pogonip. “Okay. Go on.”

She returns to the loading chute fence.

“Hey.”

She looks around at Jake.

He tips his hat to her. “Good dog.”

Pogonip wags her tail and goes back to work.

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