The Dogs You Miss

I miss Hank. He died last year on October 9th. He was what we will probably never have again. He was like no other dog I've ever seen. He lived
to catch hogs, if he ever got out of his kennel we knew where to find him....the hog pen. He was pushing ten years old and he still outran and found hogs
Before our young dogs. They knew not to compete with him. He saved a couple of dogs from choking themselves to death and my brother from getting his
butt torn a few times. Never trashed, you knew it was a hog he was baying. Would not let any dog get near a caught hog, whether it was dead or alive. I had
Raised a wild boar from when it was a few days old. He was two years old when one day I went in the pen to play with him and he pushed open the door and went
into the woods, I tried calling him but he was so excited to be loose he wouldn't come. I got worried about him running to highway 105 and getting hit by a car. I waited
for my dad to come home and he was like well we're going to have to use one of the dogs, I was like NO! I cried cause I didn't want him to get bit, he was like a big baby
and I didn't want to put him through that. My dad was like don't worry ill use Hank, so he goes into the woods and let's Hank go, I hear him bay Baby (the pig) and I hear Baby squeal and my dad call Baby and since baby was scared he ran to my dad. Then I see my dad coming back and I could not believe my eyes, he had Hank and Baby on the same chain walking side by side. We put Baby back In the pen and I was shocked at the fact that Hank knew Baby was not to be harmed. Just like when we would lose a dog and we would be calling them back he would howl and bark, but it sounded much different than his usual bark. It was horrible the day we had to put him down. He was ready to leave the vet with his nose at the door. We lost a family member and he will never be forgotten.
I miss you Hanky!