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Slim nobody knows if you lied or not except you and her so just go with it. Seems to be that once they pass they get even better. I believe that’s why they say there’s no such thing as a finished dog lol.


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I’m with everyone else on here, hate that you have to go thru that with sketch. I’ve enjoyed reading about your adventures with her.

Been an adventure for sure. Thank you sir.


And old man, I appreciate the kind words. She has excelled or I’ve lied that she has, at anything I’ve asked of her.


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  Sorry for the double post, didn't realize the first one went through.

  Sure hate to hear Ol'Sketch has a serious illness, on the upside even if she doesn't make it through it she's leaving quite a legacy. She has spawned you a good strain of dogs that should last you for decades. Not all dogs that make good ones, are able to reproduce. Seems to me she has excelled on the ground and in the brood pen.

I’m with everyone else on here, hate that you have to go thru that with sketch. I’ve enjoyed reading about your adventures with her.

 Sure hate to hear about Ol'Sketch being seriously ill, on the upside if she doesn't make it through she is leaving quite a legacy. Started you a good solid line of dogs that should last you decades.

Thanks guys. She is my best friend, and has been since the day I turned 19. Gonna make the most of whatever time we have left with her. Hopefully we have more than I’m letting myself believe for now.

  6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 more months. Whenever she goes, we’re gonna be short a good hog dog. And a great dog around here. She will leave behind a legitimate legacy of producing working dogs that worked, That will be around a lot longer than her.




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Man, I am sorry to hear that. Hoping for a good result however narrow the chances are.

Dang I hate to hear that for y’all. I know what she means to you. Unfortunately this is a time that we all have to face in life, not just hunting. We have to be thankful for the time we had with them. Those darn Chagas bugs have been around a little longer than I realized. The worst part is that there isn’t a cure or real vaccine the way I understand it. There’s a new experimental vaccine or treatment that’s about $200 a dog I think, but again it isn’t proven yet. I think it’s Bob Glass over around Lexington that is leading the way in the research on Chagas. He does testing and all on dogs.


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Well. Carried sketch to the vet this morning. She’s gotten quite a belly last few weeks but is in heat right now and is on schedule to be.

Started out as a possible false pregnancy/pyometra. Test all come back negative, no parasites.

X ray of abdomen showed the pot belly was being caused by lots of fluid. And xray of thoracic cavity showed the cause. Right sided heart failure. She’s got a significant murmur and the right side of her heart is about 1.5x the size it should be. Be a few days on tests but we sent off for a chagas test and a test to see how much heart damage has occurred already.
Pretty bad day around here. Vets want to wait on test before we start talking about time she might have left, but I know we’ve got a lot of hanging out to do starting this evening.


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