Sorry for your loss Foxi, these are difficult times filled with sadness. Dogs hold a special place in our hearts.
Foxi,
I am +1 with Jerome.
Not sure how I missed this thread until now but with my apology, I did miss it somehow.
I do understand how painful it is when one of our beautiful 4 legged hunting companions, has to leave us and finally swim across the River Styx.
About 20 years ago, my wire haired fox terrier, was chasing something, probably a snowshoe hare but maybe a young coyote or a young lynx.
If it was one of those last two, perhaps it was too immature to spin around and fight my brave little dog and so it ran a long way instead.
We were in thick riverine bush but, I could hear her excited yelping as she gave chase.
Her sound faded into the distance.
Eventually I found her dead on a public road, about 3/4 Kilometer or a half mile from where she began her fatal pursuit.
She had been struck dead by a car.
Her name was Dandelion and she was a keen hunter.
My friends and I shot many hare, as well as grouse and one ermine (white weasel) that she flushed from the thickest bush here in Alaska.
She warmed herself beside many happy camp fires with me and my wife and sons and friends.
She remains with us in spirit.
Many a frosty glass has been raised, with the cheer “to Dandelion!,” “waidmannsheil!, skal!, cheers!, salud!, chioza!, slanga vaar!,” etc.
Sometimes I relate better to hunting dogs than I relate to most humans.
Belated condolences,
Your friend, Paul / General Miles.