…on the dogs back leg?  If you haven’t seen this dog, you owe yourself a trip down to the main entrance of Brownwood, off Rt.#44.  He is one of many bronze statues that greet you, along with a cracker cowboy on his horse holding a newborn calf, and the cowboy’s herd of cattle.  The bronze statues were designed and cast at the Mountain Trail Gallerys in Park City, Utah.  The cows and bull weigh about 500 lbs each, and the horse and rider approximately 1200 lbs, to give you an idea of the enormity of the job. When completed they were shipped on flatbeds and lifted off with cranes and set in concrete.  The artists, whose project this was, and The Villages did not miss one detail when designing them.  The Villages built the natural environment they were set in and that was to have a cracker cowboy coming out of the scrub land, after a hard day rounding up his cattle.  The native plants and cattle tracks in the concrete lends to the authenticity of an old Florida cattle ranch, outside a thriving Cattle Town.  The attention to detail is so thorough that this is not just any ordinary herd of cattle, this herd has a personality and attitude all its’ own.  As you look at it you see a tired cowboy arriving back at his ranch with a newborn calf in the saddle with him, his dog, diligently alongside him, still doing his job.   The mother of the calf is looking back at the cowboy as the others are migrating over to the feed trough. The proud bull is overseeing his herd of cows, which consists of varied personalities, one is aggressive, another jealous and there is even a very timid one amongst them. It has been known to be said that all a good Cowboy needed was a whip to crack to keep the herd moving, a good horse and a good dog…and a bandana.  The bandana was essential and was used for many different  things..wet it and put it on your forehead to cool yourself, use it when picking up a hot pot, hobble your horse with it (strap two legs together so the horse can’t stray, this is done on the prairie where there are no trees to tie them up to) and use it as a bandage, cover a wound with it.  So when you look at the dog’s back leg, to me it looks like a bandana and what I think happened is he was probably bitten by a snake and the cowboy wrapped the bandana around it to protect the wound. Sounds pretty authentic to me, but what do you think?