It is terrible to lose any of your keepers, let alone your favorite one.

I have lost only 4 dogs to kennel accidents in 23 years breeding them ... 2 were puppies (daughters of Poncho I got back as stud payments), both of which were back in the mid-90s when I didn't know any better about housing pups in chain link kennels ... and I lost 2 absolutely critical adult dogs to me (Stormbringer and Jezebel) both of which were lost due to kennel-crate accidents while I was in-transition from moving. I have never lost a single dog to a chain accident before.

Regardless of how you lose them, it is never a fun thing to go through, and the "what-ifs" will forever haunt your mind as you ponder what they could have done for you "if only" that hadn't happened.

You have my sincere condolences,

Jack