you can keep her for now...

His search, it appeared, was in vain, but he wasn't left waiting for long. A red and black coated wolf with horns was moving toward him with purpose, time to get his feet back on the ground. His blue cattle dog intercepted the charge, and he shifted his weight to the right side of the barrel before leaping back and letting his paws do the work of kicking it towards the left flank of his opponent, with any luck it would pivot around and throw him off balance.

His dogs weren't big, and his opponent had 3 of his own, so he lowered his head and pushed his shoulders forward to protect his neck. If it was a head on brawl the other wolf wanted, Ken was keen. The other guy was a bit taller, but the yearling reckoned he had a bit of extra weight. He would try to use his lower center of gravity to throw his opponent to the side.

"speech"