Very Sad News

[Gina Heitz <gina@briergoldens.com>]

Hi Everyone -

Judy is not up for hearing form anyone right now, so please do not write
to her, anything you might want to say can be sent to me if you would
like or wait till I give the all clear...  But I wanted/needed to
let you all know that she/we lost Triple last night to a raging infection
that he had been being treated for, for the past week in hospital for the
most part.  He had two surgeries since last Saturday with the
surgery yesterday lasting 3 hours which he did rally from but by 11:00
last night he just could no longer hold on.  Judy was able to be
with him to say good bye which is comforting, however the shock of the
loss is still very raw.  

Triple would have been 9 on his next birthday, December 10, 2005 and
until this happened he was very healthy.  I had just had him here
for a week a couple of weeks ago and I am so glad I had this time with
him...  I am also thinking of doing a fundraiser to help Judy defray
some of the veterinary expenses.  I will send email out about that
once I recover from this to some degree. I am personally in a great deal
of pain and shock over this, as even though Triple was Judy's dog I spent
a lot of time with him and he is a very important link to my breeding
program, being TRiX's sire, which makes him the grand sire of Sunny,
Willow, and Maddie here, and of course sire and grand sire to many of
your dogs...  

Pictures of Triple can be seen at:
http://www.briergoldens.com/stud_dogs.htm

Sadly, 

Gina