I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to send your condolences my way with so much feeling, poems, and even translations I will always treasure. Sharing your happiness is twice as good, but sharing your sadness makes you be able to bear your loss much more because you know you all have been there and cried over so many wonderful dogs that have left you. I do appreciate this so much. In retrospect I would like to say this: My boy died of tortion. The vet confirmed it. I have never seen nor have had tortion ever before in my 40 some years that I have been in GS's. But when I saw it I knew what it was right away from listening and reading about it. Just the word alone makes me shudder because it's just like a death certificate you cannot escape. I wished that some scientist would be able to pinpoint this disease so that it cannot take away our beautiful animals before their time. In this case I believe it was stress as I had 2 bitches in heat, although kept away from him, he knew. There was no change in food, medication or anything else that could have caused it. He was very healthy for his 10 years. Now he is gone and I have to accept it. Lee F. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================