YIKES!

Honey and I had this amazing experience two days ago while out walking in the forest here in Holland.

We were on a dirt road and suddenly heard a heap of noise coming from the woods on our left... (Honey was behind me, off leash and sniffing around). Suddenly a huge wild pig leapt out of the woods on the run about 20-30 feet ahead of us, cutting across the dirt road into the woods on the other side. He was being chased by 2 Bernese mountain dogs and the pig was even bigger than those dogs!
I yelled at the dogs and somewhere had the sense to yell the Dutch command to "leave" or "stop" (in Dutch it is the word "AF!"). I must have sounded like the BOSS because those two big Bernese mt. dogs stopped in their tracks and came back to the road just as their master caught up with them.

I turned to see where Honey was, and he was right behind me, watching the entire episode with great interest! (Whew!) I'm sure he was also taken aback by my forceful command. The pig disappeared into the forest, the dogs all got leashed and everyone lived happily ever after.

Honey was kept on leash until we got to the heather fields where he chased rabbits and put his earthdog training to good use in the rabbit warrens.

That was as close as I've ever been to a wild pig in the forest here. I've seen them several times and Honey actually took off after a smaller one once, but wild pigs are better at crashing through the low brush than my short-legged boy who has to go "boundy-boundy" over the brush - glad for that little fact, too.

Yikes!