Super dog! Last year, I had a too close encounter with a boar. It was running at me, got really close and there was no climbable tree nearby. I thought I'd lost the dog a while before but called his name and he appeared from nowhere and ran at the pig and chased it off, though he must be a quarter of the size of the pig.

Locals insisted I should have got up a tree. What about the dog I asked? You've got to take the dog up the tree with you!