last deer, maybe ?

decided to take Mazy the dog out for one last hunt, she now has bad arthritis in both front wrist joints and a dodgy hip as well.
loaded the truck up Thursday night and headed up the Awatere valley for a couple of nights, Next morning woke up to a very light
frost and looking like it would be a nice day. Got my gear organized and bandaged up the dogs both front legs, thankfully she
doesn't mind them. we stuck to the creek bed to make it a bit easier on Mazy, typically all the deer we had been seeing were up quite
high and all large bodied stags. about 4:30 i figured it was about time to head back when up came the dogs nose in that unmistakable
sign of there's a deer close. we slowly headed upstream about another 100 meters i was starting to think she was just indicating on an animal
that had moved on, but no on the other side of the creek 50 meters away was a young stag. A quick photo then up with the .223 and the
stag was down. i gave the usual command of find and away Mazy went with no sign of any dodgy legs holding her back. Needless to say a
very happy dog. By the time we got back to the hut she was slowing down and limping a bit more than usual but next morning wasn't doing
too bad so maybe there might be one more deer. Maybe,
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Nice one. Some fresh memories for the dog to dream on.

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Hard choices time. We at same stage with Meg. Might sneak her out for easy open country hunt but no more big days in the bush. She has trouble getting up the next day.

Our dog's just a pet but he was having lots of trouble getting up or standing on polished floors and an energetic walk for more than 20 minutes would see him laid up the next day. Our vet put us onto "Beransa" it has helped him masivly. we built him up to over 1 hour walks and there has been no side effects. He's now got the energy of a 6 year old again.
$175 per injection, each dog is different so we tried the second injection @ 4 weeks then just waited to see when he started showing pain again (@10 weeks). Now he gets it every 8 weeks.

https://www2.zoetis.co.nz/products-s...s/dogs/beransa

yep the Beransa is great stuff, Mazy has been on it since it first became available in NZ. costs a lot but has definitely been worth it. gave her another year of still being able to get out on the hills
but unfortunately she is starting to run out of legs that actually work and aren't twisted and hugely swollen from arthritis

Love that matagouri country. Good dog there.��

All the best for Mazy mate hard when the best mate gets old

Nice one, great to see Mazy still getting out and enjoying the hunt.