We had actually just lost our setter of seven years in feburary and after a good three months of greiving, we decided out house was just too empty with out a big red dog. so my mom searched across the whole US for a repitial breeder to get a dog from. so we finally found one and my mom and i had to drive to pennsylvania to get him. he was the most beautiful thing i had ever seen, his eyes were deffinatly his most beautiful feature. he was 2 months at the time, it was mid june. i stayed home my whole summer to raise this puppy, i woke at 6 each morning, and didnt go to bed until late each nite. and being 14 this really wasnt easy. he had more personality then any other dog i have ever come in contact with and i loved him more than you can imagine. i actually still have a place in my car where he wiped his nose, its all smudged, on the mirror, i just cant wash it off. when he was about 3 and a half months he came down with a desiese called HOD. it is a rare but searious desiese commonly found in large breed dogs. his joints were imflamed, and he couldnt walk and stoped eating. after a week or two and very strong drugs he was getting better. we thought we had endured the worst of it, but boy were we wrong. just as we were taking him off the drugs, the HOD came back again. this time alot worse. he coulnt walk,eat he constantly threw up, it was soo painful to see. we took him to the emeryency vet and they did nothing. the next morning we woke up to a dead puppy. so silent peaceful and beautiful. he looked like an angel. after all was said and done the breeder tried to blame us for the dog dying. we had alot of tests done and nothing turned up, he must have died of pain. i miss him sooo much. he was alot more than just a pet, alot more than just a dog, he was a baby, MY baby.