As we were driving to church this morning Travis spotted a dead buck on the side of the road. He swerved over a lane to get us in a ditch so that he could go back for it- without even thinking. Now picture this, we are dressed in our Sunday best and he wants to go cut-off the head of this buck for its antlers (why anyone would want antlers of a buck they didn't kill themselves, beats me). Then Travis proceeds to say, " Honey, you go on to church I will meet you there once I am done here." Crazy, I know! Of course he knew that wouldn't fly so instead he just covered the buck up in the brush so that he could come back for it after church.
(See the below photos of Travis hiding the buck carcass in the brush...)
When we got home from church Travis changed and hopped in his truck to go back for the buck head. Which he got. Here is where the problems arise. Someone in our apartment saw the head in the back of Travis' truck and called wildlife authorities. So about an hour later while I was minding my own business and Travis was taking an afternoon nap. I answered the door to two wildlife rangers who asked specifically for Travis by name.I woke him up from his nap by telling him that wildlife police were at the door for him (he thought I was lying and made the whole situation up - yeah, I made that up!) Once he met the officers at our door he explained the situation and he had to hand over the head and drive them over to the site where he found the animal carcass. Travis was not in trouble and image it, Travis became friends with the officers and talked hunting with them for another 15minutes after the whole situation was said and done. But, since he bothered someone enough to call it in - they had to confiscate the head... good thing we got the photo when we did.
Never a dull minute with Travis.
