[Dailydrool] Jacob is ATB

[Wendie L Prince]

Hi everyone.  
Our Jacob is an angel now.  He ate this morning, and at 10am, was sleeping easily when Pat left for work.  When I got home about 1215 to check on everyone,  he was having troubles breathing, and was unresponsive.  I thought I could get him to the vet,  but in the short time it took me to get him on the dog stretcher,  I could tell he was not going to make it,  I laid down next to him in the kitchen and held him as he left for the bridge.  I thought with the pred, and that he was not coughing,  he was doing okay, hanging in.  But I suspect the cancer was throughout his body.  We did no further testing after we found the lung tumor as it really would not have made any difference.  I didn't have a need to know how much more there was.  
Jacob was a rescue basset, coming into our lives in early spring of 04.  He was probably about 6 or 8yrs old when he came here,  so would be 12 -14 now.  Like many rescues,  sometimes they can be quite trying until they get the routine down.  Jacob was a test for us with his bathroom habits.  He must have never been allowed inside,  because he did not want to go outside, for any reason!  For about the first year, we took him out on a leash to get him adjusted.  Finally, the days came when he would run outside and do his business and then run right back inside.  We always praised him for being such a good boy for that,  even up to this morning I told him what a good boy he was to go do his business outside. 

For the last 5 years, he has slept next to me every night I have been home.  I do not know what that will feel like now, to not have him.   Oh, there will be another sleeping next to me,  I need that,   but it won't be J,  and I am heartbroken with him being gone.

Hugs those hounds just a little bit harder tonight.

We send drool to all who need it and am sorry I have not been able to respond privately lately to all who have needed it.
wen and the Bounders
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