My parents had an Irish Setter named Rusty when I was a child. He died when I was 8 years old from bloat. He was young too, about 4 years old, I think.

I only have vague memories of him but he was a sweetheart.

We moved shortly after that, was adopted by a stray cat, and had cats ever since.

Losing Rusty was hard on my parents so they never got another dog.