Boss died tonight. We are not sure what happened. He turned 1 at the beginning of June. He is now at the vets office in the freezer until we decide what to do. It is $200 for them to figure out what happened (blood tests, checking out his heart, etc.). He had been chewing on a rawhide and hacked a little of it up, but seemed fine. Then he didn't want to come inside, so we left him in the yard. When I went to call him in an hour later, he didn't come, so I sent Chris out to get him. Boss was laying on the side of our house dead. Abby was still awake, so we got her up and told her, then she went to see him. She wanted us to take him to the vet to make sure he was dead. We ended up waking Reagan up so he could say goodbye. He is very attached to our animals. Ei will be very sad, he loved his "Bossy" and will miss him alot, but we also knew that he would be up the rest of the night if we woke him up.
I am feeling really guilty right now. I know there is nothing that we could have done, besides not giving him the rawhide, and we don't know if that was what happened or not. The vet said that the extreme heat we are having along with the high humidity can cause boxers hearts to swell and fail, other dogs too, but it happens more in boxers. I just hope he didn't suffer.
Boss at 8 weeks
Boss and Shelby in February
