[Dailydrool] Up Date on Basset Rescue of Puget Sound and Alexa Paul

[Patty Crawford]

Hi All
  We want to thank everyone who donated funds and supplies to Basset Rescue of 
Puget Sound and to Alexa. We would have never been able to continue our work 
without your help. 
    Its been 10 months since Alexa and JP Paul lost their house to fire. As a 
rescue we laid low. Yet still have place around 25 hounds durning this time with 
the help of foster families. Before the fire Alexa housed all of the rescue 
hounds at her home. 

    I pleased to announce that Alexa and JP moved back into the new 
house February 1. Its beautiful and the hounds have their wing, including a 
sleeping room, spa area and lounge room that they allow the humans in to hang 
with them. Right now the hounds have only access to a small part of the yard 
because the fence was damaged and was not included as part of the house rebuild. 
The side yard  fence should be complete this week and over the next month the 
rest of fence will be done. We have great people that have stepped up and helped 
out, we can not thank them enough.
    I can say BRoPS is no longer laying low. We are up and running full bore. We 
have bassets in foster homes, 1 Sr.bonded pair waiting for a foster home plus at 
Alexa's house is another Sr. bonded pair, and a Sr. in hospice care. On Thursday 
Alexa took in 4 puppy mill bassets. 3 male 1 female all unaltered flee infested 
and scared. Let me tell you that Alexa's contractor did awesome with the design 
of the hound wing. With the sleeping room door shut and the lounge door shut she 
was able to bring them right in to the spa area (mud room with a dog bath tub) 
and give them all flee baths. Then she was to take them into the sleeping room, 
its small with a solid easy to clean floor. It is set up with crates for the 
hounds and a bed/chair for a human or hound and a dog door to the small back 
yard pen. These guys had been brought up from Texas, kept in a horse trailer for 
a while. Back in Dec a woman took on all the dogs that had been brought up total 
of about 120 dogs only 6 are bassets. The city told her she had to get her 
number down so Alexa has been working with her. It took her a long time to trust 
and make the choice to give us some of the hounds. At first we thought we were 
only to get 2 but she showed up with 4. She had done well with getting weight on 
them but she didn't have the money to get them fixed or the resources for 
socializing. Alexa started socializing by just being with them. On Sunday 
several of us went over so they would be exposed to different people. It was 
very interesting just sitting in the sleeping room talking and not touching the 
hounds. They would get curious and come over sniff and then run away. As the got 
more comfortable we could let them sniff our hands then gently scratch their 
chin. This is going to be a long process. Julie Stevenson was there, and she 
is will be going over to the house during the day for human interaction plus she 
will be the taxi to the vet.
I wish everyone could have seen Alexa's face when I got their Sunday I could 
tell she felt at home. She loves the house and loves having hounds that need her 
and JP's help.
    Great things have come out of the ashes of the old house with more to come.
Thank you again for your support 

Patty Crawford 



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