Imagine grooming your dog and you spy what you think is a little clump of dead white fur around her armpit.

So you go to pluck it out and it doesn't come out like fur.

And you think, well, is it stuck

on her fur? It's not really part of her fur. And so you start pulling. And somewhere around inch

two, an inch four, you realize this could be a worm, but it's coming out of my dog's armpit. And you keep pulling and you keep

pulling. And now might be a good place for those of you watching on YouTube to go ahead and

hit the like button in empathy of what I'm going through here. You keep pulling until you get

a 10-inch worm out of your dog's body.

This really happened. This isn't sci-fi. It really happened to me.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today I'm going to share with you six

incredibly valuable lessons that I learned working

through a near-death experience with one of my dogs. To understand it, let me tell you about

Encore. Encore is my oldest dog and I knew I wanted a dog related to that dog Stoney.

Encore was related to her. However, all the puppies were spoken

for. There was a possibility I could have last pick and I said, I see the pup, I saw the puppies

and I knew the one I wanted. Lo and behold, making a long story short, Encore ended up being

my puppy. And she was amazing at everything she did. Most of all,

she was a phenomenal family pet. But she was amazing at obedience. She was amazing at agility.

She won a silver medal. I had her first world championships in jumpers. When she won the U.S.

national championships in agility, she won the U.S. national championships in agility,

she beat the second place dog by two seconds. She was so fast. Everyone just loved watching

Encore to agility. When she was a five-year-old dog, I noticed some rather weird things starting to happen to her.

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