Mike and Sheila, Our PROFOUND sympathy on the loss of Vinnie. This is a terrible disease that in it's infancy goes utterly unnoticed. Like Vinnie, Nitro only was a little "off" when the diagnoses was made, a week later we lost him to hemangio of the liver. I am so sorry that this happened to you and your boy, it is a devastating thing. I guess if any of us can take any comfort at all, it is that it is quick, to a degree. You are in our thoughts, I know your Vinnie will be missed terribly by all that loved him. Kathy * "Victory...*Vires et honestas" On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Mike & Sheila Metz < Lindenhillgsd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With great sadness and grief we are writing to tell our friends that we > lost our 2x select excellent Lindenhill's Vinnie the Viper yesterday to > hemangiosarcoma. For those focused on bloat and torsion--this 100 > percent killer is twice the horror. All our dogs tested negative for > thiss genetic marker and he got it anyway. Two hours from diagnosis to > death. No symtoms until the previous evening. Lethergy was the only > signal something was wrong. They say one of five dogs (not just gsds) > will die from this disease. Something is terribly wrong in our > environment or???? Call if you want more info. Google canine > hemangiosarcoma and learn about this horror. He now joins lily in the > great rabbit chase in heaven.--sheila at lindenhill > > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================