[Dailydrool] C.K. Dexter Haven ATB

[Pamela McQuade]

Those of you who get my Facebook messages probably saw the memorial Horton
did for his brother. It's taken me a longer time to be able to write
anything.

We were Dexter's third home, something hard to imagine because he was such
a wonderful boy. I don't know about home one, but his second batch of
people gave him up when he got glaucoma and had to have his eye out. They
were good enough people that they paid for his surgery, but hearing that
he'd be blind put them off, so they gave him up to the vets, who promised
to get him a rescue. That's when he came here.

We picked him up for the rescue and within a half hour on the road knew
that he'd found his home. Dex was a wonderful dog, and losing one eye
didn't seem to stop him. Seven months later, when he lost his second eye,
he slowed down quite a bit, but it never stopped him from being happy. He
was simply a wonderful dog with good manners and lots of love to share. His
former peoples' loss was very much our gain; he loved both Drew and I
deeply. I often called this charmer C.K. Dexter Haven, after the role Cary
Grant played in "The Philadelphia Story." Dex and Horton became best buds.

Dex has been sick since October, having a tumor in his urethra that may or
may not have been benign. We loved him up as much as possible, and from the
way things went, I don't think it was cancer. But recently he was in pain
that his medication did not deal with. An ultrasound did not identify
anything wrong, and I thought we'd be OK. But Wednesday morning he was
walking as if he were doing so on eggshells, and later he started falling.
Before noon, he couldn't walk at all. We rushed him to the vets, and all
they could say was that he had a neurological issue. It's  hard to identify
what's going on when the dog can't stand. I believe, based on the signs I'd
seen in him that it was a slipped disc in his neck, because he had been in
pain when one of  the vets felt that area.

We made the hard choice to let Dex go. He was such a part of our lives, and
we deeply loved him. Such a hole is cut into our hearts at losing our very
good boy who was adored by every vet and vet tech he met. He will be missed
by so many.

Dexter, 12/28/06-6/17/20 Our Best Boy
Pam, food slave to the remaining Dashing Basset, Horton, who misses his
brother too
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