Ok, I can't help it. I feel guilty as hell and need some kind of reassurance. I'll tell the story of what happened to Bandit.

I'm sitting at the computer, responding to some dumb-ass petard. I see DC out of the corner of my eye, but he's not doing anything suspicious, so I don't pay any attention, since as far as I know all the puppies are in their own pen and the other dogs are asleep in the other room. Now, DC doesn't usually even have food aggression, let alone dog aggression, so this was a pretty big shocker for me. I turned around to grab a drink and I notice Bandit twitching like mad in the food bowl. At first I figure he just got scared, until I noticed his head was swollen, his eyes were rolling back, and he could barely breathe. DC was hiding in the corner. Upon getting to the vet, she confirmed blood clots in the brain, and there was no alternative but euthanization.

What gets me is this-if DC actually attacked, like it seems, wouldn't there be blood, and wouldn't the puppy have at least made a noise? There wasn't even a peep out of him, and there was literally no damage anywhere except his brain. I don't even know if it's possible for that to happen on it's own. We did not have DC euthanized, nor did we rehome him. We simply forbade him from being in the same room as any puppy, and this has worked surprisingly well considering he's scared to death of them now. He's been getting better about it, and has even gone so far as to let one sleep on him (under supervision) without incident.

So this is where I'm stuck-either DC did it, and really quickly, or Bandit just started convulsing and his brain clotted on its own...