You’ll remember my story about Jackson (Son of Jack) and the bite injuries he received from his aunty within days of his birth? Well I’m very sad to report that we lost him to a stupid dog play toy! You see Jackson loved nothing more than to run around the yard chewing on a Kong play toy – teasing the other dogs and just generally having fun!
But unfortunately (unknown to us) the size of this Kong (red rubber ball) was just perfect so that in a freak manner it could slip down his throat and cut off his air supply! So – on the 4 Dec 2010; my wife and I struggled in vain to get this very large solid rubber ball from Jacksons throat – as he lay dying in front of our eyes. Even as I type this one year later, I am almost tearing over remembering how helpless we were to do anything. We tried a couple of ideas, but you only have four minutes – and we lost him.
It still hurts both of us (and particularly my wife) deeply. She has posted a Memoir of him – a collage of Jackson, our truly great friend and companion for an all too brief 3 year period – Here – note that the Powerpoint file with music is about 50 Megabytes and will take several minutes to download.
Steve


