Man, Mike that is a bad deal. I had the same thing happen a few years ago, but it was over a couple months time. All I had left was a bulldog. Just want to enccourage you don't hang it up just hang in. As bad as it was and frustrating it has been fun to try and make some dogs and get going again. Good luck to you.
Oh no, I'm not going anywhere. I've got 4 pups that just turned a year old that I've been line breeding towards the past several years. Plus plenty of related dogs out there that I know of and have placed with people over the years to breed back to if needed.
It just sucks losing the only older dogs I had left all at once. But UNDERDOG, with a little sweet talking from Peachcreek
, hooked me up with a couple of gyps to hunt.