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Hi Beverly, Thanks for your reply to my Irish's sudden death. Well its nice to know that I'm not the only one who's had weird deaths like this that noone,not even vets can fathom. I'm so sorry for your loss. I haven't yet begun to look about for answers but like you we live in the country and walk our dogs about but mainly down lanes. I wondered about what local farmers spray on their crops and whether Irish had somehow ingested something toxic that a farmer had sprayed on crops but who knows. Someone said he could have eaten something sharp that may have lacerated an internal vessel but the post-mortem revealed nothing unless incompetence was a factor in not finding anything however the vets we use are so compassionate and caring-I just don't know. Like you I now need to relax because nothing is going to happen to my remaining 2 whippies,its just my paranoia. I even started thinking was there a neighbour who bore a grudge against my dogs and laid some kind of poison trap as there is a family about 1/4 mile away that we walk by who have many cats and my whippies bark at them but they're on leads. Well my beautiful Irish is nought but ashes now and just a week ago he was a gorgeous relatively healthy dog. I say relatively because believe it or not 1yr ago, almost to the day he died, he was run over by a 4x4 and spent 3wks in the vet hospital and pulled through with a fractured pelvis and the loss of much of his skin off his upper back legs. Shortly after that he was bitten by a huge St.Bernard and had to have 15 sutures. So as you can see he'd done so well and then was cut down by an unknown and not yet 3yrs old. Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this as I think writing this has been therapeutic for me. Regards Johnathan
