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Mans Best Friend

The most fetchy boxer I have ever had, brings the ball to me when I'm in the shower and waits at the bathroom threshold.View attachment 1607890
It pains me to tell the story but just a few days after this picture my best friend Maxwell passed away. He had a slight cough, one small hack every couple hours so we went to the vet who heard a little bit of a wheeze so we did antibiotics and pred shots, xray showed no mass in the lungs but a little ghosting that wasn't normal, could be congestion. He was acting normal and playing. A few days later Novenber 24th at 3:30 am he began coughing up some blood and was short of breath, whatever he had ruptured and was filling his lungs with blood. My ex girlfriend is a vet, she and my friend from our rescue came over and at 5:30 am we helped Maxwell go to heaven. I am crying again while I type this and miss him tremendously. The house is empty without him and his always wanting to play character. He always wanted to play fetch, even when I was reloading and I threw his ball every time he brought it for the almost 4 years I've had him because I knew some day I would wish I could throw it just one more time. He also got a beef rib bone to chew every night as I was trying to make up for the 5 years he spent caged in a rescue. Maxwell is truly one of a kind and has brought so much joy and laughter to my and others lives. I miss my Best Friend and will love him for ever.Max3.jpgmax4.jpgmax5.jpgMax7.jpgMax10.jpgMax13.jpg
 
I guess I’ll bird hunting again this fall! A 6 week old littler of 8 was brought to a local shelter and we were lucky enough to get this little guy, Gunther. Unfortunately no back story to go with them.
is that a shorthair or a springer?
 
Bird dog puppies are straight up the cutest that have been invented. jd

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No argument there!
A hound dog puppy is right up there too in regard to "cute".

Lily, one of my Basset Hounds as a puppy.



This is her now as an adult....still cuter than chit.



Interesting how her color changed on her head over time. Dogs are not my whole life, but they make my life whole!
 
All of us big saps with our old dogs and new puppies kind of reminds me of the old Janis Joplin/ Big Brother song -- "Take another little piece of my heart now baby".

These little scudders and big lovable mutts worm their way in to our heart and soul, and part of us becomes their "occupied territory" forever. jd
 

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