A mournful beginning

I didn't write yesterday because a lot was going on yesterday.  At about 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning, we heard a distressed howling near the northern edge of the sasquatch pen, and it didn't stop.  One of our staff members went down to see what was going on, and she found three sasquatches standing in some taller grass, looking down.  As she got closer, she realized that there was another sasquatch lying in the grass.  It was "Alexander", our patriarchal sasquatch who has been living on this farm for 53 years.  He was the last pup born from one of the two original sasquatch cows when this farm was established.
Alexander wasn't looking too good.  Not good at all.
We transported him to "The Cabin", which is a small enclosure on our farm used to house sasquatches when they are wounded, sick, or having complications of any kind.  It's actually pretty nice inside.  A few years ago, I slept there a couple nights while taking part of a 24 hour monitoring of a pregnant sasquatch in bad condition.
We called in the local vet who checked out Alexander, and he basically said that Alexander was on his way out.  53 is a ripe old age for a sasquatch.  I think Alexander knew it as well, or at least it appeared that way.  He was very gentle, and appreciated the attention he was getting.

Two of our staff members asked to spend the night with him, and so we let them.  We also brought Maisy, our favorite cow sasquatch, to the Cabin as well to sleep there to provide some additional comfort.  From what they told me, Alexander was pretty darn happy about all that.  They went to sleep, and then around 4:00 a.m., they noticed that Alexander's breathing sounded strained.  At 5:13 a.m., Alexander the Sasquatch passed away.

It's been a rough morning for some of the staff.  Alexander was well loved.  We've already been getting phone calls from some of our regular visitors, so thank you to all of you folks.

If you'd like to say a few words, feel free to post them in the Comments section below.  All would be appreciated.

Take care,
Dave
Manager
Sasquatchicus Farms, LLC