In the story Christmas hunt they are basically telling us about what could happen when you are hunting with your dog. Actually many things could happen you could get shot or your dog could. It also did happen in the story. He was trying to shoot a bird in the bushes but he misses the bird but got it on the back of the dogs back leg by the thie. So he tries to go near her but she nips because she afraid of him. But instead he ran home got his mom and Dad and his father had to go get her and carried her to the car and took her to the vet..They had to remove the built and she made it but the had to put her on crutches. She would not go by the boy until the end of the story.After they cut off her leg or