Our setter Val passed away after a hunt... 11/8/24

 

 

 

Val with her pheasant 1 hr before she passed away on our way home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our wonderful gal Val ( 6yr 10 mos ) passed away last night on our way back from a hunt.  We had been hunting by Albert Lea and she did great.  Everything seemed normal after the hunt, she drank some water, ate a few biscuits while I loaded up everythingand field dressed her pheasant.  I stopped about an hour into the drive to let her out to go to the bathroom.  She was laying in her kennel, I thought she was asleep,  I tried to rouse her but she didn’t get up.  I couldn’t get her to come around.  I took her to an emergency vet but she had passed.  We did take her to the U of MN where they will do a necropsy on her.  I have a suspicion that she drank some funky water.  She came out of the cover a few times and was wet but none of the water that I saw looked weird or scummy.

We are crushed.  She was just such a total sweet heart.  On every hunt this year I was saying to myself I’d like to just copy her.  She was a joy at home and out hunting.