We have lost Lucy

Over the last couple years and have had several contact me wanting another pup out of Lucy. I told them that Lucy had been bred 4 times and I doubt if I ever breed her again and if I did I planned on keeping the litter myself.

Kevin was over a couple weeks ago looking at his Princess & Joe Black pup. He asked me. I didn’t think you were going to breed Lucy. I said I wasn’t. We got to checking her out and it was apparent she was pregnant. I was very upset because like I said I didn’t want to breed her anymore. Those of you that have been her know that I keep my males across the road on zip lines and the females in the kennels with concrete floors. So I couldn’t figure out how she had got bred. We did have bigun over breeding Bunny and they looked to both be going to whelp at the same time. So I come to the conclusion Bigun must have bred her while I had him visiting Bunny. Although as close watch as I keep on my dogs I was skeptical. I was keeping a very close eye on Lucy and she got so she didn’t want eat or drink water. I even cut up a steak and she wouldn’t eat it. Yesterday I loaded up and took her to the vet. I told him the story and he says me being a experienced breeder and her being on concrete he doubted I missed her. The vet took a x-ray of Lucy and told me it didn’t look good. He then done a sonogram and said the mass was a timer and fluid. He drained about a gallon of fluid from her and after opening her up he passed the news to me. Lucy needed put down. So I came home without my little gal.

Lucy was born 4-10-02 and was just one of those pups. She was the 1^st to come of the box. Matter of fact she was the first of the litter to do anything. She was 8 weeks old when I showed her first squirrel tail and she sat down and barked her head off at it. She was 5 months old when she treed her first wild squirrel by herself. By the time she was 6 months old I could take her to the woods and kills squirrel with her each time. She was a good reproducer in her likeness as well. She threw some squirrel dogs in each of her litters. I never saw her growl at any one and was great around pups and strange dogs. Lucy had been a whale of a squirrel dog for us. Now that its over I think She may have been ill for a while because it seemed she didn’t have the spunk in her this past season like in years past.