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The Old Man
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In hindsight I think I lost a Plott female to chagas before I'd ever heard of it. About 3 yrs. ago in the Texas Hill country we bayed a good Boar hog, not a monster but a good hog in an almost impenetrable white brush thicket. My gyp got hit at the back of the ribs barely visible injury but was sored up a few days and went right on. Some time passed and she seemed to gradually lose all stamina, just couldn't hang anymore, was not old either. I laid it off to the injury received from that hog. I had her staked right under a pole light while there, supposedly the light attracts them, and the timeline somewhat fits.
That pole light was on the edge of a juniper thicket that the Mouflon sheep regularly bedded in to avoid coyotes when they had lambs so there was the draw of the lights and a steady meal available
The dog that was sick not long ago is sick again after seemingly a full recovery, I haven't seen any of the kissing bugs, here but on the "chagas map" Oklahoma is listed. I don't know if he could have had it all this time "since the Hill Country trip" and just now shown up with symptoms. With there not being a good cure, and no vaccine I don't plan to have him tested.
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