[Dailydrool] Guess I better introduce myself!

[Carmen Kraus]

I've been reading the digest for about a year now when I can.  Life gets 
a little hectic out here some weeks.  I have 2 permanent bassets (Gus 
and Curie), a permanent basset wannabe (Tesla) and 2 long term basset 
fosters from a previous drool member (Sally and Schroeder).  Along with 
various other canine fosters and 7 cats at the moment, those are all 
mine.  I am running a local all breed rescue here mostly by myself out 
of my extra room and have been able to place 15 pets so far this year!  
This is a very small rural community here but I'm doing what I can to 
make a difference.

We got our Curie from the local kill shelter Oct 2007 after my husband 
BEGGED for a basset hound.  For $20 I got her, unspayed, no shots, 
severe kidney infection, pano and with her papers at 7 months old.  Thus 
began my journey to start a rescue.  She had been set to be euthanized 
the next day, but I didn't find that out until much later.
This past May we saw a poster on a pet store bulletin about a basset 
that had been pulled off the euthanasia list in Kerrville and we made a 
phone call.  Gus was at our house 3 days later and has fit in like a dream.
In June I read a post on the Drool Board about someone needing help with 
placing 2 bassets.  Hubby and I discussed it at length and brought in a 
blind basset and her buddy in July.  Sally and Schroeder.
Tomorrow I will be springing an older basset from another kill shelter 
as his time will be up on Friday.  I can't stand to see seniors dumped 
in shelters.

Links to see everyone:
http://www.masonanimalrescue.org/Specialadoptions.html
http://www.krausdesigns.com/Curie.html
http://www.krausdesigns.com/Gus.html
http://www.krausdesigns.com/Tesla.html

Enjoy!
Carmen and the herd