Soignée Bridget

This is “Soignée Brid­get,” her Amer­i­can Ken­nel Club regis­ter­ed name. Bridget is a Bas­set Hound. Bridget was born on De­cem­ber 25^th, 1992, and passed away from chron­ic kid­ney dis­ease on April 25^th, 1999. Bridget’s sire is Marge Skol­nick’s Slip­pery Hill Reno; her dam is Jo­Ann Schaud­ies’ Sur­mont Lotus. Brid­get’s Bas­set Hounds friends get to­get­her on week­ends at Jones Point Park in Alex­an­dria, Vir­gin­ia. Here is Brid­get barking.

Chronic kidney failure is in­si­di­ous! We had no idea that Brid­get was ill un­til the dis­ease was in its last stages. Now we know the signs: (a) drink­ing lots of wa­ter, and (b) lots of ur­ine. Dogs older than three need a blood test each year—the dis­ease is not re­ver­si­ble, but early de­tec­tion and treat­ment can add years of life.

We found much use­ful in­for­ma­tion on the In­ter­net. Here are pages with help­ful advice:

• Columbia Animal Hospital’s Canine Kidney Disease.
• Mar Vista Animal Medical Center’s Chronic Renal Failure.
• Newman Veterinary Medical Service’s Kidney Failure.

— Cy Phillips

The Eldar, you say, are unpunished, and even those who re­bel­led do not die. Yet that is to them nei­ther re­ward nor pun­ish­ment, but the ful­fil­ment of their being. They can­not es­cape, and are bound to this world, never to leave it so long as it lasts, for its life is theirs.

And you are pun­ish­ed for the re­bel­lion of Men, you say, in which you had small part, and so it is that you die. But that was not at first ap­point­ed for a pun­ish­ment. Thus you es­cape, and leave the world, and are not bound to it, in hope or in wear­i­ness. Which of us there­fore should envy the others?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Akallabêth. © 1977, George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.

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