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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Toby left for the Bridge this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>After several days of not wanting to eat, and me trying just about anything to interest him, Pat and I let him go to the Bridge. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>It was such a hard decision as he walked in wagging his tail, but other than his heart issues and his kidney issues he seemed fine. I know those 2 alone are enough, but it just seemed like a hound wagging his tail should not have to leave us. But he was slowly starving himself and I could not let it go on any longer. Toby was a very sweet low key hound, maybe because of his heart issues. When he came to us, it took a while for him to want to sleep inside, guess he had been an outdoor hound. I would find him curled up in a hole he had dug out, sleeping peacefully. He still enjoyed his outdoor naps, spending a great many of them under our huge gardenia bush. Pat and I fully expected to find him there one day, gone. I normally do not scatter ashes, but I might put a portion of his under that bush that he loved so well. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>He has been cremated and I will go pick him up in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Thanks for all the drool and prayers for last week, he did rally some, but then started turning his nose away from eating again.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></body></html>