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Wow....with all the Issues with my daughter in the hospital over the holidays and my wife and I rotating nights at the hospital and still non having Christmas yet, today, No this year sucks. 1 of our basenji had died over night. I found her in the dog house where she always would sleep. She was 14 years old and her mate turns 16 tomorrow. Now here is the issue, He has had several strokes and has had problems walking. He acts like a drunk. He would walk in right hand circles for several minutes at a time. He would then snap out of it and resume his happy life. As I was burying the female he had a major stroke and it was so sad to watch him. I call my wife who is at the hospital with my daughter Elissa. I talk to my wife about putting him down and Elissa says she has Christmas presents for the dogs and she wants to wait till she gets out of the hospital to put him down. Elissa wants to see him open his present. Tonight is my night at the hospital so today a somehow fount the strength to dig two graves side by side.