Molly.

We lost Molly this morning...

Brother Jas' first American water spaniel passed away this morning after having been diagnosed with lymphoma about a year ago. In just three days it'll be one month to the year when we lost Molly's younger sister, Zol. Two pups in one year - that's tough any way you look at it. I'm guessing but I think Molly was 12 1/2 and Zol was 2 years younger. You hardly see the symptoms of lymphoma in dogs until the end - Molly was active and eating on Sunday when I last saw her (as if there was nothing wrong) and then this shit.

Brother Jas is handling it a tad better because he knew it was coming sooner than later, but it's still rough on him. In the pictures, Molly's the bigger of the two. What a wonderful dog - my family loved her so much. Jas - his girls all these years...both gone. So sad. So sad indeed. and I'm very sad for Molly and my brother.

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A boy and his dogs.

A few shots of my brother Jason's dogs - Molly (the larger one) and Zo (the whacky one). Look at those little baaaaaaaabies! standing together. Zo's one hyper little bitch - that's why Jas can't get a picture of her alone. Oh - they're sisters, separated by two generations.



Molly and Zo are American water spaniels - a classic hunting dog...first bred in Wisconsin. Apparently, there's only around 3,000 in existence at any given time so they're considered rare.


Can you find Molly? She thinks she's hiding. The cattail pictures are the trio hunting duck at the Castlerock Flowage in Mauston, Wisconsin - where Jas, I, dad, Uncle Fran, Cousin Gerry, Schmidy and Bruce go bow hunting (Bruce's brother, Dave used to hunt but he's golfing now - we still fish together though). Sorry, got sidetracked. Anyway...the forest pictures are of a grouse hunting trip in the Chequamegon National Forest in Wisconsin as well. Trying pronouncing that one - it's Ojibwa for, "place of the shallow waters". Anyway you look at it - pretty country. Damn pretty country. Have you found Molly yet?



Jas shot these with his digital camera, and quite frankly, they are superb. He just needs to email them to me NOT as thumbnails - that's why they're small. Nice eye, brother.

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