<div dir="ltr"><div>We lost our very first basset, Winnie, to lung cancer at the age of 12.</div><div><br></div><div>She fought the good fight and we kept her comfortable for a number of months after her diagnosis. Steroids helped for awhile.</div><div><br></div><div>We finally let her go when my asthmatic daughter listened to her difficulty breathing and said to me: "Mom, don't let Winnie be afraid when she can't get a good breath. It is so scary when you can't breathe."</div><div><br></div><div>During this same time she seemed to have some happy dementia and she acted like a puppy again - getting up on the bed to sleep with the humans, which she had not done for several years, and playing with toys again.</div><div><br></div><div>I used to feel that we might have let her go a bit too early but I have learned since that it is far worse to hang on to them a bit too long.</div><div><br></div><div>Love to you, Alisa, and contact me off list if you need me. <br clear="all"><br>-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Ginny Tata-Phillips</font></div><div> </div><div><em>Co-author of RESKU, DOGKU, BIRDKU, HORSEKU, PETKU and HAIKU IS THE SPICE OF LIFE with Diane Grindol and DUFFY TO THE RESCUE with Tom Schreck</em></div><div><em><a href="http://www.gspotsylvania.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.gspotsylvania.wordpress.com</a></em></div></div>
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