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My GWP Thor and I were hunting mearns near Gardner Canyon South of Tucson. We had just rounded a small hill with both dogs trotting along looking for birds when they trotted right into a sounder of 15 javelina. It happened suddenly and there was nothing I could do. One large javelina sided Thor and bit him. He yiked, I fired the shotgun into the air and the javelina ran off. I caught up to him and saw some blood on his upper lip and thought how lucky. We continued to hunt for a couple more hours.

Two days later I noticed quite a bit of swelling. Went to the vet and after some probing he discovered there was an entrance and exit where those large canines of the javelina had connected. Some irrigation to flush out the infection and some antibiotics fixed him up.



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