On May 14th, 2008 poor little Chiquito Joe (aka, CJ) was put down after a long 15 years of life. CJ was a special dog...he was a father to 12 puppies and before those privileges were taken away from him, he started to seizure. Many of his seizures lasted up to 1 1/2 hours and each time he started into one we thought it was going to be the end of him (the vet. was amazed CJ didn't die sooner, he said most dogs don't last after an 1/2 hour into a seizure.)however, he kept on trucking along for another 10+ years and along the way he lost all of his teeth (hence his tongue hanging out of his mouth in the picture to the above.) It wasn't until a week ago that we even considered to put CJ out of his misery, he never seemed to be in pain before, which is why we didn't put him down any sooner however, last week he lost the use of his back legs, at first we thought it was a temporary thing and we gave him aspirin (after consulting the vet) in hopes he would recover but, the poor guy only got worse, my Dad had to hand feed him and hold him up in order to help him relieve himself, it was the next day that my Dad decided to take him in and put him out of his misery. As hideous as he was, the little guy is missed.

CJ in his prime; with two of his offspring his life-long mate, Molly and his side-kick, Beau