There were only the two of them on the mountain, flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours.
So after what Mr. Richards describes as an eight-hour trek in unforgiving terrain, the ranch's dogs, which have pursued the cougar, tree it.
As a diversion from the music industry, the couple joined the trend for celebs to get into the catering business by opening the Mad Dog Ranch café in Colorado.
The stop was then known as Ed Clark's Eskimo Sled Dog Ranch for the pack of purebred Labrador sled dogs Clark brought home from the Maritime Provinces following a sojourn punctuated by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
Ms. Rothenberg and Mr. Nauman were hiking on the ranch with their dogs shortly after her move when the dogs began mauling a rabbit; the resulting painting is a blurry hodgepodge of blood, contorted animals and mayhem.
Niman Ranch bacon, hot dogs and sausage fill grocery cases around the country.
Even if I had had ambitions, I would have wound up here anyway, living on a ranch with six dogs.
Still an irascible chainsmoker, Baker now lives in semi-seclusion on a South African ranch with many dogs, polo horses, and wife number four.
This bed-and-breakfast is a log cabin with a view out over the heads of a few longhorn cattle being teased by the ranch's noisy dogs.
As for Thompson: "I'm a little feminist!" she says, chirpy both in London and later, obligingly, on the phone from her LA ranch (horses, chickens, dogs, tortoise, parrot).
