[Dailydrool] Winston ATB

[Kathie Maffitt]

Sorry for your loss of Winston. He sounds like a lovely dog!

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> It's been a bad year at our house. Winston has gone to the bridge.
> We got him in 2006 from people who wouldn't let him in the house
> because he was stinky. They opened a bag of Ol' Roy and threw into
> the yard for him to eat.  At the time, I was volunteering with
> Cascadia Basset Rescue and I went to pick him up from this "home".
> The woman relinquishing him offered to give me the open bag of food
> that was lying in the dirt. Naturally that "generous" offer was
> declined and we sped out of there. Needless to say when we got him,
> he was overweight, close to 85 lbs. He was so stinky we drove home
> with the windows open. We were told that Winston was 3 years old
> but the vet said he was probably closer to 8. So we split the
> difference and decided he was 5. Anyway, he became a very important
> part of our family. My son and Winston bonded immediately and they
> became best buddies.  The last few years he's had lots of trouble
> with his hips and we've been giving him Missing Link with
> glucosamine which has kept him pretty mobile. But seeing how much
> trouble he was having was telling me that maybe he WAS closer to 8
> when we got him.
>
> Fast forward to last week, my son noticed that Winston didn't look
> good before they went to bed. Sort of sad looking, listless and
> breathing with difficulty. I was already asleep and my son wanted
> to have one last night with Winston. So in the morning, my son put
> him on the floor and he was unable to move and peed a giant puddle
> right there.  We cleaned him up, looked in his eyes and knew it was
> time. We took him to the vet who said he was in heart failure and
> we gave him his wings. My son took it very hard and didn't come out
> of his room for two days. Now there is no one to announce the
> breakfast and dinner hours. Although Nutter Butter is trying to
> take over that duty, she is more of a whiner than the all-out bark
> that Winston had. We will miss him.
>
> For anyone keeping track, Cookie went the the bridge in April; we
> lost Gramps in June, an old long haired cat we took in when he
> decided he didn't want to live across the street anymore, and now
> Winston. Fly free old man. There is no more pain. You take a piece
> of our hearts with you.
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