[Dailydrool] Sly slips in and locks the gates

[Basset911 at aol.com]

Yes, its a tear jerker - delete now if you have had enough.
 
There have been so many bridge passings throughout the basset world of  late, 
I hesitated to post this one for a few days.  But a story needs to be  told 
here, and that falls on me, the slave scribe of Daphneyland.....
 
A year ago, plus.
A call came in from Hanford California - a vet tech who was in tears.
Evidently someone had thrown an old basset over a wrought iron spiked fence  
into a historical cemetray and the groundskeeper was on vacation for 2  weeks. 
 The few people who noticed him tried to get him out, but as this is  a 
historical landmark, no police or locksmith would touch the lock.  And  the weeks 
passed before he could be brought into the animal shelter.   Locked gates.
 
Emaciated, infection had set in where the spikes had impaled him, tumors  
abounded and his ears were long standing goops of infection - Animal control  
took him to the local vet for euthanasia, but the vet felt it would not his  
time, and thus the crying vet tech.  She had called other rescue groups and  no 
one would take him due to his age and injuries.  And so it was that Sly  came to 
Daphneyland.  When you take in a senior that has so obviously never  been 
cherished it breaks your heart.  Sly recovered so well and had such a  great 
summer - fall was mild and he was enjoying the turn of the seasons.   Obviously 
having spent his life outside in the snow - when winter came he did  not want to 
come in, and would trudge outside in the mornings, like we were  forcing him 
to stay outside -   this winter have been very rough for  those of us here, 
and it was readily apparent that Sly no longer had anything to  interest his 
sniffer - he tolerated the bath, and allowed me to cuddle him - but  his cancer 
was taking over and the choice was clear.
Sly arrived at the rainbow bridge in style.  Wearing shiny fur and  many 
tears he was the last glisten to arrive at that major feast - just as he  slyly 
closed the gates and locked them. He is an expert at locked gates.
 
Sly is in, let the party begin.
May no more houndies leave us for some time.  It is so very hard to  say 
goodbye - 
 
Dawn of the West
Daphneyland
_www.barniatdaphneyland.org_ (http://www.barniatdaphneyland.org) 
 

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