[Dailydrool] Dear Elizabeth

Fri Jan 15 14:30:25 PST 2021

Oh Elizabeth I have had 3 Bagels. They are the best of both breeds.
SeniorHoundsAbound has Beagles and bassets. I'm sure Wendy could tell you a
lot. I don't know if she is on this list any more. So many have left for
Facebook.  Check with the rescues nearby you. There are so many needing
homes.
Ann

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:23:44 -0500
From: Elizabeth <linktolindsey at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Dailydrool] Basset-less and unsure what to do about it
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I stumbled across the Drool in July 2003 when I was searching Google for
ideas for stimulating our Jane Basset?s appetite. Her usual interest in food
had been decreasing all year. I?d been making her three hot meals a day
since January, but then she stopped wanting even those. She was clearly a
senior, but we didn?t know exactly how old she was because she?d come from a
shelter. She?d defied death three times already, which meant she might do it
again. I wanted to give her every opportunity to do so. 

I signed up for the Drool digest, asked for help, and was surprised by how
many people, complete strangers, wrote such helpful and encouraging posts
for me. I gave many of the suggestions a try, but it turned out that Jane
really wasn?t meant to continue on. A couple weeks later, it was clear she
was dying, and not even Purdue?s vet school would have been able to change
that this time. Ken and I took her to an ER, held her as the vet helped her
leave us, and then ugly cried together in the car for a very long time. 

When I was finally able to let the kind strangers on the Drool know of
Jane?s death, we received many, many loving, compassionate messages of
condolence in Drool posts, e-mails, and even snail mail. I saved them all.
They?re still in an envelope under Jane?s urn on my dresser. 

I stayed on the Drool after Jane?s death because within a couple of weeks I
had the joy to share of our new across-the-corner neighbor asking me to let
her basset out and feed her on the evenings she was in night school after
work. Within just a few weeks, I was keeping her basset at my house all day
while I worked on copy editing various manuscripts for clients. That was
Jennifer and Macy. True-blue friends in need. 

Macy?s daily presence helped ease my grief for Jane. She wasn?t anything
like Jane, but she was a basset, and having her in the house during the day
meant I missed only Jane and not also the daily routine that comes with
having a dog. Macy kept me from having lost everything.

At the end of 2003, Jennifer adopted basset Owen, and in March 2004, Ken and
I found our Elsinore Basset to be Jane?s worthy successor. Then in October
2006 young Charlie Basset joined us as a foster. I talked Ken into agreeing
to adopt Charlie for my birthday in 2007. The best birthday present I?ve
ever had, and one he didn?t have to shop for or wrap. By this point, I was
no longer writing to strangers on the Drool about all the bassets in my
life. I was writing to friends. 

And now, for the first time in 27 years, I have no bassets in my life. Macy,
Owen, Elsinore, and Charlie are all gone. Yes, my mother?s little Chihuahua
mix is still living with us, but I think we can all agree that?s just not
the same at all. 

I?m discovering life isn?t as happy or full of surprises without a basset.
There aren?t nearly as many reasons to laugh during the day. Most days tears
are very close to the surface, and it still takes very little for me to get
weepy over Charlie?s absence. There?s no sweet, furry hound to pull up onto
my lap to cuddle like the sweetest toddler I?ll ever have. The only plus to
being basset-less is that there?s considerably less fur on the floors now. 

At some point I?ll start looking for a new hound to help me laugh again.
Part of me wants another basset, but part of me is leaning toward a beagle.
I?m getting older, my back sometimes causes problems, and beagles are
smaller and easier to carry to the car in an emergency, even when they?re
dead weight. If I were to get a 4-year-old basset today, I?d be 67 when it?s
13. Will I be able to pick up and carry a 45-pound basset when I?m 67?
Perhaps I could. After all, I?ve started the new year with a rowing machine
and free weights?and I?m even using them most days. 

My question for The Drool is: would a beagle?or a basset half-and-half
mix?not be allowed to go to the basset rescue picnics and waddles I?ve
attended over the years? I know some rescues ask that non-bassets stay home
while others are okay with basset mixes and other hounds. I saw a bloodhound
once at the Michigan picnic a few years ago. Does anyone know if beagles
have their own Drool and Waddle equivalent? Would the posts I want to make
on the Drool be rejected if they were about a beagle instead of a basset? 

I thought it?d be better to ask these questions now while I?m hound-less
than to find out after the fact that the type of hound I?ve chosen has had
an impact on that part of my social life. I like being part of the Drool
world. 

I wonder how difficult it would be to find another adult male basset who?s
under 45 pounds, my weight-carry limit? 

Elizabeth

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