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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I don’t post often but I lost my Maggie
yesterday. I found her dead when I got home from work. She had just
come home Wednesday afternoon from being at the vet for 2 days because of a
kidney problem. They got her kidney “values” to come down
about a third. They were very high, so they put her on an IV and flushed
her system out. Her vet felt very comfortable in letting her come
home. I was at home for lunch and she seemed fine, although when I left
for work in the morning she was trembling quite a bit. That is one reason
I took her to the vet in the first place, and she was losing some weight.
She was 9, I had her since she was 7 weeks old. You all didn’t know
her like some of our hound friends on the drool, that is my fault for not
posting about her. She was a wonderful little girl, very great
personality, very gentle, very demanding, we all know how that goes. She
has the biggest feet ever for a little girl. My husband always called her
paws catcher’s mitts. He would have her on his lap and do the “swing
batter batter” thing with her big paws. So cute. Everyone who
met her loved her, all my friends are crying too. It doesn’t seem
that she suffered, I thought she was just in a deep sleep when I first looked
at her after I came in the door. My poor husband was on his way to PA,
his brother’s wife just had a heart attack and stroke so he was on the
way to be with him. He almost wrecked the car, I should have waited until
later last night to call him, but I was in panic mode and wasn’t
thinking. I almost posted about Maggie being in for her kidney treatment
and asking for drool like we all do, but I felt kind of guilty doing that because
of all of Nigel’s problems. I’m so happy by the way, that he will
be with us for a long time to come. Every one of you guys knows how I feel,
and I certainly have shed my tears the times I read about someone else’s basset
passing. I miss her. We also have a husky, she is lonely and knows
I’m upset. I let her sniff Mag before we took her away and she was
sniffing the “spot” a lot last night. I wish she could talk,
she knows what happened to Maggie, I just want her to be able to tell me she
didn’t suffer. I hope to rescue a basset some day when the time is
right. GABR is involved at vet’s office where Maggie was. I’ll
know when the time is right to do that. I can’t imagine my life at
all without having a basset hound, Mag was my first hound and now I’m
hooked. I am having her cremated and will have her back home in a few
days. I’m going now, I’m rambling and not making any sense
any more. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>TC <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hull</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mom to Maggie and Kita<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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