12/04/2025
For those that don’t know, Maggie had a close call this weekend. She spent almost 3 days at the vet getting blood transfusions after taking an antler through the mouth and through the base of the tongue. She doesn’t have a spleen anymore which makes a heavy bleeding injury hard for her to overcome. After $5,000 and a lot of thought, im going to retire her and let her live the rest of her life in peace. Doing what we do, you bleed a lot and she just can’t handle it anymore. She has almost given her life for me and the hunters we work for many a time in her life. She taught me everything I know about tracking and the good lord knows I’m going to miss her expertise. She’s earned her retirement. We have a good 4 year old dog on the ground eager to take the spot of lead dog and we will have pups on the ground (courtesy of Maggie) this offseason. Triple D lives on, but it’s sure going to hurt me to not load my ace in the hole into the box when I get a phone call. If you see the old brindle dog in the back of my truck in town, give her a pat on the head and a thank you for her many years of service and lots of blood shed for me and every person she’s helped throughout the years.
