The Guard Dog That Never Had to Bite

In rural Tennessee, a sheep farmer named Dale Hutchins kept a Great Pyrenees named Boaz to guard his flock. For three years, coyotes had picked off lambs at the edges of the pasture — sometimes two or three a week. Dale tried traps, electric fencing, even staying up nights with a rifle. Nothing worked for long. Then Boaz arrived. The big white dog did something Dale never expected.…