Hi, I'm Tom from Australia. I joined up because (in honesty) I just lost my baby girl at 7.5 last week suddenly. Only people on this forum could understand how I would feel and that Dobermans are really people in disguise. I miss Xena so much it's so painful. She was my everything. I worked from...

We got the dreadful news yesterday from the cardiologist that Brusco (just turned 6 on Monday) has DCM. We went to him because he had 2 episodes of near death. Both times I was there and gave a thump to his chest. My last Doberman, his grandfather died the same way. Never got CHF but sudden...