Well, the title says it all. Today I found my daughter's basset hound, Lou Lou dead in her usual sleeping spot.
She was only 6 and healthy as a horse. We don't know what happened. She was lively and playful yesterday, but today she did not come downstairs for her morning potty break. Well, I just chalked it up to her selective hearing that she would get every once in a while.
Early in the afternoon I went upstairs to go into the attic (she sleeps against the attic door) and was talking to her, trying to get her to move. She didn't move. She had passed in her sleep.
My other 3 dogs are mourning as well. They have been somber all day. I should have taken that as clue, but I didn't suspect anything. Kimmie, the rottenlab (rottie lab mix) has literally been upstairs sitting where she usually sits next to Lou Lou, and has been crying. That brought tears to my husbands eyes. I don't think I've ever seen him cry until that moment.