Grieving With A Friend and the Loss of His Hunting Partner
Troy & Lil’Bit
Photo by Troy
I just received a bit of sad news that Troy lost his hunting dog, “Lil’ Bit” today rather suddenly. Troy as you’ll recall hunted with me just the other week when he and Billy traveled out to join us on a waterfowl hunt. This is a photo of Troy holding a duck he killed and Billy and his dog Hershey looking on.
Lil’ Bit died on the operating table just after the vet had completed an emergency surgery to find out what was making her ill. Here is Troy’s post about what happened;
Sat, she acted “off”…. but I took it for being a switch in dog food brands. Sunday, she refused to eat. I took her to the Vet Sunday afternoon….. no Parvo, no worms, she was clean. Blood test revieled low potasium, slight temp, and low blood platlets. She was started on an IV of Potasium and antibiotics yesterday, and kept for observation - the vet suspected a possible uterous infections (her last heat cycle was 1.5 months ago). They done an x-ray this morning, and it revealed she had a blockage (gas pockets in her small intestines), but the blockage was not visible. My options were an ultrasound tomorrow…. or exploritory surgery now. I drove straight to the Vets office, and could see she was getting worse….. so I knew the surgery would be the quickest and best hope. They took her in at 10:30 am, and I got the call at 11:45. There was a piece of mulch that she had ate, and it had punchered her small intestines…. and was still blocking them. They removed the piece of mulch, removed the damaged intestines (9 inches of it), re-attatched the small intestines, cleaned her abdominal cavity, and started to close her up. As they were closing, she slipped away. She quit breathing less than 15 min’s before they were going to wake her up…. so close, but yet so far away.
Our heart goes out to Troy and his family the loss of a dog is like losing a family member. We don’t know why these things happen but maybe God had a duck hunt scheduled for the morning and needed a good dog. Hang in there Troy and cling to the good memories.
Comment by SouthernAdventures — January 16, 2008 @ 12:34 am
My condolences to Troy and his family. Losing a dog is always hard.
Comment by Kristine Shreve — January 16, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
Thanks for the kind words, and the nice mention in your blog.
She was special to me, and will be dearly missed.
Thanks again,
Troy
Comment by Troy — January 22, 2008 @ 3:41 pm