AUSTIN (KXAN) — For 42 years, Becky Roche has had a dog in her home. Now, she doesn’t know if she’ll ever get one again after discovering a deadly bug in her own backyard.
Becky got Ranger, a Belgian Malinois puppy, when he was just a few weeks old. She followed all the typical rules, avoided dog parks, kept the dog near her home and played with him constantly. The two were “joined at the hip,” she said.
One day last October, while playing fetch, Ranger collapsed…