He sounds like a dog I would have loved to meet.My feelings for someone who lost a fine pet go all out! What hapens now is up to you get another! To save another life is to give the love twice over.He will never be replaced but to give up the love in risk of those feelings again in the long run would be worse. When I lost my smokie I thought I couldent do it again. My Mother & Father kept on me till I got another.I couldent get back to the everyday Things we all must do.For 9 monthes I thought I had lost everything! Then I went to a local Pound and found someone who gave me everything back.His name is RUSTY. He is a Novi.(Novascotion Duck Tolling Retrever) and I was lucky to find him (two days from being put down at nine monthes old).I lost smokie back in 98 and if you see my sign in name heis still with me.