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Yukon's Corner
Darwin's Corner is getting ready to become Yukon's Corner.
Our well-loved little dog died this morning, December 14, 2015. You could call it complications of cancer and cancer treatment. It was time to say goodbye. Our dog Darwin was a shorty bulldog, four years old. She was a rescue dog that came to us with a whole lot of problems. Today those problems caused her early death. She was a hermaphrodite, something they figured out at the last moment when she was getting neutered/spayed before her adoption. That didn't deter us any, although ii wasn't easy for her at times. Darwin was already dying of cancer before we took her in. The first doctors reassured us that what they'd found were benign polyps. Turned out she had inoperable soft tissue cancer deep in her colon. Despite the cost, we decided to take her to Texas A&M and start chemotherapy. It became a blur, taking her in every week to College Station. Then she was on the pill chemotherapy treatment for six months. Acted and looked healthy. But it another version of the cancer took hold. Darwin always had this worried look on her face. Except when she'd be protecting us from monsters on the front porch (and out in the street innocently walking by our house), then she looked murderous. When she sounded fierce, believe me, she looked fierce. SO, DARWIN'S CORNER is soon to end. Our sweet cat Yukon will step forward for photo ops and such. MONDAY. R.I.P Darwin Rix. 
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Darwin was a shorty bulldog. She was a hermaphrodite. And she died of cancer this morning. We were committed to keeping her happy and as healthy as we could, and we succeeded for a year and a half. She loved imitating a couch potato, but when anyone got anywhere near our front door, she fiercely protected her people (and I do mean fiercely). She didn't like going on walkies. And the only part of driving around in a car she liked was the run from the front door of the house to the back seat of the car. Good bye little bulldog.
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