Waited til late afternoon and ran the whole thing with Asher, most of it with him off leash. Asher is, how to characterize, an excitable and high energy dog. He has on multiple occasions now run through barbed wire, sharp sticks, and who knows what else in the pursuit of small furry animals, the outcome of which has been 0 net animals and many bloody gashes, the worst of them requiring stitches, satellite dish collars, etc. So knowing this, I am still trying to train him to a new 5k pb and to be the best running dog around. We were running on this short section of bike path through the woods and he hit a game trail, which I noticed and called to get his attention. Now, if I stopped and made sure that Asher was not up to foolishness, I would not get a run in with the dog, so I did some laps in a pasture for a while waiting for him to reappear. He did not.... For a while, and when he did, I noticed he wasn't moving that fast meaning he had definitely been in a foot race with something and.... I noticed a bloody scuff on his shoulder which wasn't bleeding heavily but there nonetheless. We head home and this point to get him cleaned up, but we're about 4 miles out and I ain't carrying the damn dog or something. We're tough in this household, dogs only get to sleep on the couch for 8 hours a day and no more than 2 massages a week. We get home and I clean the dog up, there's dried matted blood and what sees like a few loose hairs that are white or grey, not the black of Asher's entire coat, but no major trauma that I can tell. It was on kind of a weird spot on the side of his shoulder, so I'm hoping its not an animal bite. I had to shave his shoulder to get a closer look and a puncture is this only thing that can describe the wound and reason for the amount of blood for such a small spot of damage. So, hopefully, a bullet dodged. We've done skunk sprays, barbed wire gashes and now a possible animal attack | 