Very sorry for your loss. I have Rhodesian Ridgeback, and I don't know what I would do if something would happen to him--not to mention my wife. On Thanksgiving day, I forgot and left the gate open to the back yard, and later that night my wife let him out to go to the bathroom. After about 20 or 30 minutes and he wasn't back at the door whining to come in, we knew something was wrong, and that's when I remembered the gate. I don't know if I was ever as scared as I was that night, and I have never seen my wife so upset. I didn't know what to do. I had never lost a dog in the city before. We split up and walked around the neighborhood for about an hour calling for him, and finally he came to me about half a mile away from the house. Call me a wuss, but I cried tears of joy when I seen him. So I know where you're coming from, and again, am very sorry to hear that.