[Dailydrool] Daisy Mae

[Jane Nelson]

Thank you all for the overwhelming outpouring of kindness and support  
we received at the passing of our sweet girl. I've had many dogs over  
the years but she was our first Basset. What an amazing animal she  
was. The last year or so her eyesight was going and she relied on  
scent for a lot of her navigation. She also got pretty lazy so in  
order to get her some much needed exercise my husband and I started  
playing find the mommy. He would keep her occupied for a bit and I  
would walk all over the house and out in the yard. As soon as Bruce  
stopped paying attention to her she would come sniffing for me. It was  
amazing to watch her sniff out my exact path!
We miss her greeting us at the door when we come home and I just  
haven't had the heart to wash all the doggie nose prints off all the  
doors. Even the cats, who are normally quite stanoffish unless they  
want something, sense our sadness. I'm not at all sure they feel the  
same but they are being unusually sensitive to us!
There will be other senior Bassets in my future. No one will ever  
replace my first sweetie. They will just be loved in their own right  
and for their own personalities.

Again thank you all. I love reading all your stories of daily Basset  
antics.
Jane & Daisy Mae (ATB)
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