<div dir="ltr">I put this on the FB page, so my apologies if it's a duplicate to some. The response over there already has been overwhelming. This group is so amazing in its amazing generosity, love and giving. If that's what it means to be a crazy basset lady, I would never want to be anything else. My gratitude for your shared grief can never be expressed. I am humbled.<div>
<br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">We had to put down Flash last night. He was in respiratory distress and the tumor in his abdomen had spread to his lungs. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">Flash was 14 and I was lucky enough to love him for more than eight years. He was our Flashy Pants, Pantalones, Buddy and my heart dog. He lived far longer than we expected him to, but it's still not enough. This house and my heart feel very empty and lonely without him.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">He was my second ever foster and our Foster Failure. He was left chained to a porch</span><span class="" style="display:inline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"> and his family moved without him. Their loss was one of the best things that ever happened to me. He was spectacular with the parade of foster dogs through our house. He loved chin scritches, peanut butter and being buried under a pile of blankets. He hated when I loved on him here in the house, often running away from me, but couldn't stand when I was out of his sight when we were out in public. He proudly won Biggest Butt and Biggest Paws at multiple Basset Fests and never got offended when people not so quietly exclaimed "Look how big that one is!" (Though I didn't always handle their rudeness as gracefully as he did)<br>
<br>Many of you have been wonderful help to me as I have navigated my first senior hound. You might remember that he went down in the rear about two years ago and then somewhat miraculously got up about a week later. He's been senile and had difficulty adjusting to the house we bought about a year ago, the the "Puppy Prozac" he went on about 4 months ago greatly helped. </span></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.222222328186035px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">I am totally devastated today in the way one can only be with their first lost dog as an adult - and I'm lucky to only now be discovering this pain. But you all know the loss in a way others don't. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">The experience at the emergency vet was just awful. I will never go back to this location. They were cold and we spent so much time just sitting in a room without him. We chose to be with him while they administered and it did not go smoothly and in some ways I'll always regret that decision, as he jerked in my arms and gasped and moaned and I wish that wasn't the last memory I had of him or that it wasn't playing over and over in my head whenever I close my eyes now. </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;line-height:16.309091567993164px">Hug your fuzzheads a little tighter today and light a candle to help Flashy find his way to the Rainbow Bridge.</span><font color="#333333" face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.222222328186035px;line-height:16.309091567993164px"><br clear="all">
</span></font><div><br></div>-- <br>Nicole Haase<br><a href="mailto:nicole.haase@gmail.com">nicole.haase@gmail.com</a><br>414-708-3542
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