<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:black;"><div>Hey, Droolers. It's been a long time since we had time to read the Drool or post anything. Being a full time teacher takes up soooo much of my time! Anyway, for the first time in 16 years, we are a 2 basset family :( Our Sweenie girl, adopted as a foster failure from Bluegrass Basset Rescue, had an obstruction that, given the location, posed too great an issue for resection and her age--which was at least 12. We only had her 4 years....she came to us a thrown away basset in Louisville with a huge hernia and a penchant for swallowing odd things (ties, ballet shoes) and vomiting them back up. She low-crawled around my house for 6 months, terrified of everyone but my girls in whose room she slept. On Sunday, June 3rd, she was doing really bad
so we took her to the emergency vet, who stabilized her so I could take her to our vet in the morning. She was awake when we said goodbye for the night, and in the morning, she was walking but in obvious distress. When my vet called with the bad news, I texted my oldest, Joshua, and asked if he wanted to come say goodbye to her. He said yes, even though he has long complained about how badly she smells [poop eater], so I picked him up, got my 2 younger ones (Bridget is in KY visiting but I made her say goodbye to Sween the morning she got on the plane just in case, given her age, and even though she wasn't ill at all) and drove to the clinic. They had her under anesthesia in the same room the Grand Old Man Rusty Paws had been just 6 1/2 years ago...we kissed her goodbye and let her go to the Bridge where she met up with the only other female basset we ever had, Nellie. We had adopted Sween in July 2008 when Nellie passed
away. I know she met up with our fosters she knew who have gone to the Bridge--Grandma, Grandpa and Sasha--and she got to meet Nellie, Sammy, Bert, Barney, Solomon, and Bianca, and, of course Rusty Paws. I can't say my house is quieter, for all the old girl ever did was sleep, but I WILL miss letting her out of her crate when I got home from work and have her do the Basset 500 lap once around the house before running straight out the backdoor to pee :)<br><br>Sween<br>? 2000 - 4 June 2012<br><br>Susan and the San Antonio Bassets<br>Murphy and Jeremiah<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bluegrassbassetrescue.org">www.bluegrassbassetrescue.org</a></span><br></div>
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