For all of us animal lovers out there, you must know what I am feeling when I say Drako, my male Shepherd, passed away early this morning around 12:10AM, i got home around 11:30PM, he was fine, 1/2 hour later he collapsed, and couldn't get up, i got him up to see if anything was wrong, he started panting and taking in less and less breaths of air, there was nothing on his body to alarm me, so I went in the house to get my son to help me lift him into the vehicle to take to the hospital and when i went back outside to wrap him up in a blanket to help lift him, he was already gone, and getting cold. My instincts told me when I first saw him collapse, that he was going to die, and after talking with the hospital, it sounds like he had heart failure, here I have a very healthy dog, and this happens to him out of the blue. I am so sad for my loss, he was an awesome pet, and now what is Shadow going to do without her mate, i am making her a house pet now, always indoors, she needs me to help her through this and I need her to help me through this, Drako was my baby boy, he was so handsome and so playful and so healthy, my son is devastated as I am, and he says No More Animals Ever, we have two more to go through with this someday, so no more, and I told him, you have to remember all the joy we got from Drako, all the fun we had with him, all the mischief he got into, and now shadow needs us more than ever to help her through this, i think we are all in denial still, because i can still see him outside in my mind, and now for just one dog to be there in the yard playing, this is not going to be easy, so I am off to rainbow bridge to make his announcement, for all of us animal lovers, please send a prayer to Drako, we know he is in doggy heaven, where he so belongs, take care, such a loss for all of us.