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hi racers , What a start to the new year we have had . On jan 2 me and Julia found my mum had passed away overnight sat in her chair ,still she was 82 and it was the way she wanted to go .On the dog front our 2 13 year olds harry and harvey have been finding it hard going and in the past couple of weeks they have both been struggling , going of there food drinking for England trembling and just looking miserable, We knew sooner or later we would have to make a decsion as its horrible watching them go down hill so fast. On the yonger racers like most of you we have had 3 months of racing and just over the the past 3 or 4 weeks we have got back to some serious walking,we also have the use of some horse gallops to get a bit of runing in, the dogs love it, its get them back strething the muscles and freshens them up after a long winter inside. Last sunday we thought we would we would give them a good blow out around the gallops before we start back racing at club level, we got to the gallops at about 9-30, it had been a very wet night so it was boggy in places, it takes us about 20 mins to walk there so the dogs are nice and warm when we got there, the gallops cover about 2 miles with lots of scrubland between the gallops. After about 30 mins we started to walk back to the gate after a good bit of exercise, all of a sudden a hare hopped across the gallops about 100 yds in fronf of us, all 4 dogs set of for the chase, But following the hare was a big dog fox, all 6 animals tore of into the scrub, we soon rounded them back up and the only damage seemed to be a small tear on the back of Oscar, just as if he had gone under a barbed wire fence and got caught, we walked home and everyone seemed fine, the rest of Sunday was a nice relaxing day. julia had monday of work, the dogs all seemed fine, that was untill Monday eve about 10 oclock Oscar got up and was sick, I put him outside , cleaned up, let him in 5 mins later, he was dribbling from the mouth, his hackles were up and his breathing very heavy, within 30 mins Oscar was having a job to breath, I rang the vet, geting her out of bed, she said get over to the surgury straight away,it was nearly midnight. By this time Oscar was in big trouble his muzzle was facing the cieling sucking in every bit of air. Oscar spent 4 days and nights at the surgery, with a collaped lung. we picked Oscar up on Friday, at the same time we took our 2 old boys in and had them put to sleep, what a week, at this time Sunday 27 Oscar seems to be making a recovery, we dont know at this time if Oscar will ever race again. Has this type of injury affected anyone else in racing
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