[Dailydrool] QUEEN POPPY TO THE BRIDGE

[GGrf232 at aol.com]

It is with a very sad and sorrowful heart that I must  report that Queen 
Poppy went to the Rainbow Bridge at 15.00 (GMT) today. She had  spent the last 
two days almost completely immobile in her bed, not eating hardly  drinking 
and obviously coming to her end.
 
Our Vet came out to the house and confirmed my worst  fears and we gently 
led her on her journey with me holding and talking to her to  the end.
 
Poppy had an eventful life: she lived as a brood bitch  in a puppy farm in 
West Wales until she was five and by that time had had  eight litters of 
puppies. fortunately she was rescued from there and came to  live with us in 
2002.
 
>From the start she exerted her authority over Dylan  and gently wound her 
way into our hearts. She was always a gentle soul but to  outsiders she could 
and did present a most fearful bark and growl. She took  great delight in 
teasing Dylan on their walks by nipping at his heels to make  him go at her 
pace.
 
She earned her title of Queen Poppy in 2004 at the  50th Anniversary of the 
reformed UK Basset Hound Club where she won the  award
 as the Best Basset Rescue from a field of over  100 hounds. She repeated 
this triumph on two further occasions, in 2007 and  again this year in 2009.
In all the years this event has been held no other  hound has ever won it 
twice let alone three times.
 
In March 2006 after an exploratory operation we were  told to take her home 
and give her lots of TLC since she had multiple ulcerated  tumours and 
would probably not last more than a week. They clearly didn't know  Poppy, she 
never gave up and fought back to have another three and a half years  of good 
life.
 
Coming so soon after the death of my dear wife Dilys  in September this 
latest blow is almost too much to bear but I have the  consolation of knowing 
that they are now reunited at the  Bridge.
 
 
Good Night   and God bless both of you, you will always be near to my heart 
and  thoughts.
 
 
Terry & Dylan
 
Wilbarston,  England
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