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« on: January 31, 2022, 05:23:27 am » |
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Lost my main dog ranger unexpectedly this week. We went hunting a week ago and I noticed the day after his toe was swelled like he had a thorn in it. I couldn’t figure it out and couldn’t find anything or a lead to why or what. He would get up to drink water but I could tell it was uncomfortable. Then Friday night right before work me and a buddy went out to the kennels and his breathing was labored and he just wasn’t right. We decided he needed to go to the vet the next day but when I got out to him the next morning he had already passed. I had owned ranger since 2018 and he was my first real cast out hog dog with bottom and hunt. I remember old dude telling me how good he was and like every other 300 dollar dog I jumped on when I started I had to hve him but he let me take him on a hunt first. I dropped him out with my buddies dogs and I turned around and caught a glimpse of him looking at us about 300 yards away across a pasture and he was gone. I didn’t see him again until he was bayed 2 miles away. I couldn’t wait to make him mine. Since then idk how many miles between me and him had with each other. He was tough and damn near bullet proof. Hell I was his owner that should tell you something. His only down fall was he was a hard keeper and if you hunted him at night he was going to trash. He was the only dog that got sardines weekly. He wasn’t fast at all and had a trot I could pick out of a line up. I believe he could gallop any hog down eventually he’d get to them and you’d hear him locate he sounded like a hound. We are definitely going to miss him. He helped start a lot of dogs and he helped start me on this sport and made it a lot more enjoyable. It’s pretty tough to separate feelings on hunting dogs and them growing grayer a little quicker but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2022, 05:47:06 am » |
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Sorry about your dog…I love that long bawling locate in a cur dog…
Thanks for sharing, sounds like he was a great dog…
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2022, 06:56:20 am » |
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Sorry for your loss man,, its hard to loose them type.. How you reckon the toe plays in to the loss of his life,, were there any more signs you had to signal something else was wrong..
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2022, 06:57:38 am » |
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I’m sorry for your loss Cheston, he sure looked good and sounds like a fine dog. Do you have any kind of idea about what caused him to pass? The swollen foot and labored breathing sounds like an odd combination. Hopefully some of those up and comers will pick up the reins and step up for you.
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2022, 08:21:24 am » |
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Dang Cheston I hate it for you. Dogs like Ranger are why we do it. They make it fun and interesting. You’ll think of him every hunt. I still think of several dogs every time I get to go. If you look up “Good Dog” in Thomas’ dictionary it says that a “Good Dog” is one that makes the person feeding it happy. I doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of it. My boss ladies husky would qualify as a “Good Dog”. It doesn’t matter what I think of it.
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2022, 08:45:10 am » |
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Hate to hear that
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2022, 08:51:14 am » |
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I really don’t have any leads he had a small cut on his hip from the hunt the week before that he had pulled the staples out of but it was healing and closing up wasn’t a very big cut at all. About the size of a quarter was all that needed healing. I kept it clean and on he was on antibiotics. Really regret taking him hunting that day now but idk if the terms would’ve ended up any different. He was regular when i got him caught after hunting looked him over like usual when we got home and he was %100 except for his toe a few days later it seemed like his leg had a tad bit of swelling barely recognizable just looked enlarged. at first I couldn’t pass it as a snake bite or something else I looked through his pads and everything it seemed like the swelling was starting to go down. He stayed in his barrel a little bit longer than usual but I was thinking I’d be doing the same thing if I had a snake bite or a thorn in my foot. I should’ve took him to the vet Thursday when he didn’t come get his egg I give him from the chickens after I do my chores. Friday I seen the labored breathing and pulled him out of the barrel and looked him over before work and gave him more antibiotics and fluids . And watched him drink water out of his bucket.
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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2022, 10:02:48 am » |
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Sorry to hear about your dog.
How old was he? The last picture he looked like he had some age on him.
Sounds like he had cancer. It will show up in the feet/legs as sarcoma or melanoma. Seems like nothing at first, then gets bad quickly. The labored breathing meaning it was in his lungs/heart already. Never can tell 100% without xrays at vet. In that stages the vet would not have done anything.
Again sorry to hear about him.
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2022, 11:55:28 pm » |
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I got him checked for cancer and tick disease about a year or so ago when the boar in the pic of me and him got him pretty good. Kidneys were kind of hot but I blame that to the past owner feeding victor teal bag and not hunting him. Idk if that was the case this time I couldn’t tell anything looking at his belly
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2022, 01:55:08 am » |
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Sorry for your loss Bud...
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2022, 03:26:01 am » |
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Thanks guys. Kinda had my doubts about when I’d get back in the woods but my cousin dropped a line and I didn’t hesitate to say yes. Brought my two bird dog brothers that are about a year and 2 months. They did good behind his dogs and we ended up with 5 in 45 minutes with one of them being a hundred pound boar my dogs found and they also got a lesson in armordillas. It’s cool watching it turn on with them.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2022, 10:02:57 am » |
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Glad to hear that the young dogs are turning on for you, I really enjoy watching a dog figure it out once the light bulb turns on.
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« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2022, 01:02:27 pm » |
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Always tough to lose a good dog. ESP before their time...
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« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2022, 04:38:15 pm » |
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Yea rip to him
Good dogs hard to replace but keeping on and not living in the past is better than good
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« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2022, 06:40:40 am » |
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Sorry to hear that bubba. You might ever have another just like him but there’s a pup out just waiting to cross your path and start new memories. The dogs might not last for ever but our memories last as long as we do
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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2022, 05:42:58 pm » |
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Like others, real sorry to hear this. Seems like it is always the good ones.
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