More on Chisolm

Doing a follow-up with Tom Blessinger, who is the beef rancher in Idaho who lost his great Pyrenees named Chisholm on a trail while working on some water tanks with a range manager with the Boise National Forest. Chisholm followed the two on their ATVs by 100 feet or so, they got to the water tanks, inspected them, came back and loaded their pickups. “I whistled and hollered and he don’t come. I waited a half an hour and, this guy, I can’t just take all his time, so we leave. He takes off, I go back up to try and find my dog. I look all over and can’t find him, I wait, whistle and holler. I’m not too worried because he has been there with me before and all he has to do is go down the draw and he will come right out at my trail and my camp. He’s been there 1000 times and he knows his way and I wasn’t too worried so I figured he got hot and he got into the shade or he was laying around the water hole somewhere. I figured he would be in. So the next morning I was back up there at 7:30, went to the trail, couldn't find him, went back up to the trail where I had loaded up, couldn’t find him. The next morning I went up early again and tried the same thing. Nothing. Then about 6:30 that evening, this gal who's been watching out for me, she calls and says, we found your dog and he has been killed. I get hold of the government trapper, he meets me up there the next morning and he confirms that it is a wolf kill. They have chewed him severely around the head and ears and neck and then they have hamstrung him on both hind legs. They also bit him in the back.