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Date Posted: 22:15:05 2/24/23 Fri
Author: Jasper
Subject: Requiem for Duke, a best friend. He's been gone now 3yrs, the best of the best and the brightest.

Some Mennonite folks had a litter bred between a red bone coon hound and some big chested, pointy eared white dog. We picked a male and named him Duke. At 6months he was fighting with another nuetered male of ours, a 13yr old gentle giant. At a year he was pulling my bicycle down the road at top speeds. He never got lost although one day he did get picked up by animal control and I had to pay a lockup fee to get him out. That happened when he was under 2yrs and never happened again. Duke - the terror of the neighborhood, cats beware. Many a dead feline came and went when that old boy would get loose, cause you know he did the deed. Even out in the woods he would take off and suddenly you would come upon a bleeding out ground hog, Duke would miraculously appear just as we got to the dying creature and deign to look at the critter even though you know he would be all over it if he hadn't killed it. We moved out into the sticks when he was 5 and the poor boy was lost for a while. He was lonesome for the postage stamp backyard with the alley where he would go after the trash man, the cats wandering by and any other no-goods. He came into his own here, getting loose as much as he could. I'd see him taking off and yell to get back here but that was just for images sake. When he was getting to be 12 he started getting a bit slower and soon I had to give him hell for going off. That came to an end when he got into it with some coyotes and came back chewed up. Did I mention he had big teeth and and a hard mouth and chompers that crushed ham bones, well he did. 85# of him, now layed to rest with a couple other dogs of ours at this home, Lizzy and Snoop. We have two dogs now and always had at least 3 and at one time had 5. Next year we'll probably get another lab, a female cause we have a 2yr old male lab now. Gotta tell you never to spay or neuter yer pet. We did it before but never again as it is cruel to not let the animal be all it can be. You listen to those whiners at the vet and get to thinking like they do, well don't do it. They are useless, the whiners whimped out during the covid b/s and from then on I have no use for them. The missus wanted to be with her dogs during exams and the cov19 scaredy cats wouldn't let her.

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