A red wild dog passed under the bordering barbed wire fence and paused briefly in the middle of the firebreak. Without a look in either direction, it went straight on to the carcass of the wild boar lying there.
I had shot the boar at point-blank range a couple of days earlier in an unexpected close encounter. As the wild dog began to tug at the exposed pig flesh, a second red dog came through the fence and went directly to the carcass as well. Eighty metres away, I sat in the middle of the fire-break. The narrow, slashed firebreak ran through thick scrub and forest.
The block I was shooting on had been de-stocked for years and the grass
