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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>It has taken me a
couple days to tell you all that my big red guy, Dudley is
ATB. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>He was diagnosed
with cancer a few months back, I forget what kind, but we knew there was
only a matter of months. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>Monday night he
paced all night long and still was restless during Tuesday morning. We
decided around noon to help him to the bridge.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>Pat had been home
most the day with him and I came home a few hours before we were to go, to spend
some time with him. He was so tired.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>After brushing him
in the sunshine, he came inside and laid down on the tile, I snuggled up
next to him, and then decided it was too hard, for him and for me. So I
fixed a place on our bed and picked him up and laid him down to take a nap
with me. He finally just laid out on his side and slept, hard.
I was so glad he could finally rest after the night he had. As it
got close to time to go, I realized he was probably not going to walk
there, so got out our dog stretcher and put a nice comforter on it, and a pillow
and Pat and I moved him onto it for the trip to the vet. He did not even
give a thought to getting up off it. He stayed on it in the car and when
we got to the vet, we got him up, to see if he needed to urinate, but he didn't
want to be up, so he laid back down on it and we took him in. He went very
easy, with both Pat and myself holding on to him, tears not
stopping. Maybe because it is so close to losing Bunnie, maybe it is
because Dudley and I were very close, or both, I do not know, but my heart
just feels beat up right now. And I am missing all the Bounders who are at
the Bridge and many more before them. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>Dudley had a very
bad case of pseudomonas that we never got cleared up, but we did get it
manageable with very frequent ear flushing/cleaning/meds. I hated he
always had that problem, he was such a good boy and while he wasn;t fond
of that part of his life, I think he knew I was doing it to help
him. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>Hold all you hounds
close tonight, it just seems like they are gone all too
soon.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=188120703-19112010>Drool to all in need
from the Bounders</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>wen and the Bounders</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.seniorhoundsabound.org/">www.seniorhoundsabound.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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