If you could afford it, you could save your next O maybe the same early death, or you the same heartbreak of buying from a petshop who purchases from a breeder who has a gross genetic defect in their lines that is causing the shortened lifespan.
I have battled a horrid parasite in beloved O, Fury, and I can not imagine losing her. They really are like aquatic dogs, and she never ceases to amaze me, almost like a clumsy basset hound.
. You never know what happened without an expensive necropsy.
