PUPPY KILLER

Thanks Guys, it has been rough for the Plotts here lately, that puppy's grandma died a couple weeks ago with identical symptoms of Hambone, after being involved in a boar hog catchin that whacked some more dogs up, even though she did not have a hair out of place on the outside, then yesterday Ol'Gantte, "who was her son and the puppy's daddy" died in the woods, I tracked to him off a split race where he was running alone and had been out of communication with him several times, one of the hits I got on him he showed treed about 250 yds under a mountain road that is almost impassable so I got on the mule and rode to the top and he was a couple more miles west from there when I got to the top with another question mark, so I came out and by the time I drove way around to the other side intending to get closer to and ahead of him, he showed treed but wasn't showing to be barking and I hoped he was just stopped in there but that would have been uncharacteristic and when I rode in to him he was dead and stiff, the only injury showing was an old knot on his ribs from a December injury was torn open but was not fatal in itself. But hey if you can't stand to lose them you just better not have them, because it is inevitable on ocassion.
Here's the kicker, it was discussed on here awhile back about me collecting him, I planned to do it in the next two weeks, would have done it the past week but I had that knot opened up 2 weeks ago and more or less inspected, it was just scar tissue from the rib damage and of course they put him on antibiotics and I wanted the antibiotics to be cleared out of his system, didn't know if it could affect his sperm motility or not.
I have a pair of pups out of him and a good producing female and am keeping one of the two little pups the coyote didn't get, I will also have access to the second one if needed, and have another litter born yesterday that I will get a pair of if she raises them, they are bred nearly identical to Gantte and his babies that will come from Tennessee when weaned so I didn't lose completely out.