Chauncey McMillan and the not-automatic fence

“I get along with everybody because everything I don’t like I hang on my fence,” says Chauncey McMillan.

Found off Highway 114 northeast of Powell, the fence currently sports a couple unfortunate coyotes.

“I had a fox on there once,” he said.

"Why?" is the obvious question.

"I don’t know why I did it," Chauncey said, mulling it over. "Just for the novelty of it, I guess."

He noted that it gives something for people "to talk about at the coffee shop."

It certainly drew our initial attention here at the Tribune. However, the feature story we ran last month in the agricultural insert never mentioned the coyote-decorated fence.

Instead, the story focused on the dogs Chauncey enlists to help keep his sheep in line. The pictured coyotes were shot by grandkids, but Anatolian shepherds typically serve as the sheep's guard dogs.

A while back he had a guard dog named Gunner, once clocked at 35 miles per hour.

“He’d catch a coyote or a fox like nothing,” Chauncey says.

The occasional varmit may be fine for the canine diet, but Chauncey doesn't want his dogs eating too much weird stuff.

He joked that he's considering adding a sign to his fence posts that reads: “Stand back from the fence. If the guard dogs eat you, you might make ‘em sick.”