[Dailydrool] A special thanks to Laura Salmon and to all the kind Drool messages received about Mugwort

[Pute Comms]

Words can't express how it made me feel to open up my inbox tonight. I
can't believe how kind and thoughtful Laura has been in posting about
Mugwort (well actually I can - as she so is and I knew that already). And
then to read the floods of messages from all of you kind droolers. - thanks
so much, to all of you for your very, very kind thoughts and messages. I've
been crying reading them but it's uplifted me too. It's been about 14 years
since I posted on the drool about losing poor Hoffy basset number 1 and
ironically poor Mugwort lost her fight in exactly the same vets last
weekend which is many miles from here.  The Drool got me through then and
tonight has reminded me why and how. It's been a tough, tough horrible week
to get through since losing beautiful Mugwort and I've not felt much like
email or anything normal really this week. Needless to say she is missed
terribly by all who had the pleasure of knowing her and loving her. She was
the biggest, boldest, naughtiest personality and that makes it all the more
harder to ignore she's no longer with us. Madder is very quiet despite her
many furbaby basset wannabe doggy and pussycat brothers and sisters (all 15
of them). It's still deathly silent here without Mugwort. Mugwort got up to
some antics in her time - like the time she led Ronnie astray after an
imaginary rabbit, only for her to return just a couple of hours later but
him (a tiny yorkshire terrier) was left alone and wandering lost in a
forest for over 24 hours. In that time time a missing person (who'd gone
looking for him), the police, local farmer, mountain rescue and a team of
bloodhound tracking dogs (now great friends) didn't manage to bring it to
an end any sooner until finally a lead from a wood collector helped him be
found around 4 miles away - meanwhile Mugwort just blinked those pretty
little eyelashes back at me everytime I looked at her and told her off! Oh
and there was the time when Mugwort went missing on a beach only to be
found 3 miles away in a cave hanging out with some surfers helping them
drink beer and eat crisps! She had this annoying habit of walking back with
you after a walk and getting slower and slower behind you, giving the
impression she was too tired to go any faster - until you turned round
still trusting and checking on her only to find she had gone and done a
runner into a forest or a sand dune! She was incorrigible and impossible
and oh soooooo soooo naughty it was untrue. She even cheated that cancer -
that's how far her naughty talents stretched. She had the most beautiful
eyelashes - like butter wouldn't melt, she knew when she'd been naughty but
she also knew how much she was loved and she knew she was impossible to be
angry with. The naughtiest things she did inevitably always somehow brought
a smile. She adored rolling in dead things - especially maggot infested
headless seals but fox and horse poo was always considered wonderful too
and a day never went by without her managing to knock the bin in the
kitchen over at least twice so she could inspect the contents. She drove
everyone mad and to distraction but always lightened life and that's why
it's so horribly quiet and sad here without her. Her pedigree name was
Brackenacre Lovable and although she was always Mugwort, she was so aptly
named by Marianne and Jim too - she truly was Lovable by name and Lovable
by nature. We'll miss you always Mugwort, your loving family, Sonia, Alan
and the paws xxxxxxx
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