That seemed pretty threatening! If anything ever happened to Max...

My parents set up a "pulley run." Like a zip line, kind of. They anchored each end of a long metal line into two huge pine trees, one on either side of our backyard. I'd say the line was about 50' or so. Then they put a pulley-looking thing on the line, and attached a 15' rope to it. The end of the rope had a latch, like a leash. We hooked Dixie up to it via her collar, and she could run basically all over the place, but could never get out of the yard. It was great, because she had a lot more places to go than if we had anchored her line to just one tree, or dug it in the ground. My mom does the same thing now with Harley, using a 30' clothesline. They let the dogs go potty, run around, chase stuff, lay in the sun for an hour, whatever. Maybe something like that could be an option for Max. Anyone else ever done something like that? I guess the only problem might be if he could break it, or get tangled up in it, but we never had any problems with it.

Just trying to think of ways to keep you, Max and Mean Guy happy.

I am sorry this happened to you. Some people... my cat Sophie's mommy cat was shot by a hunter that lived in the area when Sophie was only 3 weeks old. The hunter's dogs chased the cat up a tree, and then the hunter shot her. At least, that's the rumor anyway. I wasn't there.