Posted on 05/03/2016 2:00:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Nora Hall with the family's pet dogs
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A familys loyal basset hounds have refused to leave the side of a dying baby girl who suffered a major stroke.
Nora Halls mother Mary Hall wrote on Facebook: My daughter had a stroke on April 6. We have been at Childrens Hospital in Minneapolis since then. She is not going to survive.
They allowed us to have our bassets here in the last couple of days because they are so attached to her.
Our hearts are so completely broken. We have been praying so hard for a miracle. We tried so very hard to save her, but it just wasn't meant to be.
She added the dogs have appeared very stressed and sad in the hospital and asked members of the Wonderful World of Basset Hounds Facebook group for advice on keeping them by her bedside.
I was leaning towards sending them away [from her room] so they didnt get stressed, but after reading so many comments saying to keep them, then I will."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Oh how horrible! Speaking as someone who has had a lot of adverse reaction to medications, I have never had a reaction like the one you had.
I am so glad you were able to pull through with the help of your precious pup. I believe that your dog was protecting you, with out a doubt!
Just curious, what was the medication? It scares me when I have to take a new med, I avoid it if possible.
No, it was a Newfoundland. Labs barely existed.
I knew a fairly young lady who was crazy about her basset hound.
I once recited that epitaph to her and asked her if she thought that was true—about the dogs having all the good points of humans and none of their faults.
She said immediately,
“Yes. When I come home from work my dog is totally happy to see me. He never criticizes the way I do my work. He never says, ‘Your hair doesn’t look very good today.’ He accepts me exactly as I am.”
Oh yeah.....cats are part of this mob around this house...like the one head buttin’ me whilst I try to type this..........;)
“No, it was a Newfoundland. Labs barely existed.”
You’re right, it was a Newfoundland.
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