Thanks for the kind words, Matt. Welcome to the Forum and best of luck with your bulldog's diagnosis.

The thing that few here understand is that despite Cappy being 11 chronologically, he believes that he's 5 or 6 physically and, for the most part, a young dawg mentally too. He loves to train, hunt and just loves to be with his daddy. My wife calls him my "yellow shadow". It's a rare moment of the day when he's more than 10 feet from me unless I'm on the tractor, mowing or doing chores where he can't join in.

Hes been a great mentor with 5 year old Remi and is proving again to be a patient and tolerant surrogate father to our rascal 10 week old pup. Every man should have one of "those" special dawgs in their lifetime. And even though I've owned and trained nine in my lifetime, Cappy is "the one" in mine.

Jim, I've been following your posts and want you to know that you and Cappy are in my thoughts and prayers. To so many folks a dog is just a dog, maybe a pet. I know that Cappy is so much more than that to you. Cappy is family.