[Dailydrool] Diane Morgan's Basset Hound Owner's Survival Guide

Wed Sep 2 23:14:08 PDT 2015

Hi Everyone,

When I adopted Violeta, 13 years ago, I had never had a dog or any animal,
for that matter.
The ex- husband, that when we divorced kept Violeta and Xaxa because he
loved them so much - and my building doesn't accept dogs- left all the
training, caring, everything up to me at the begining. My luck - nothing
better than a 4 month old basset girl sleeping curled to my ribs. Gosh, how
I miss it!

So, as a new Basset mom, I run to the library and got a pile of books to
learn the most I could about that little girl that would pee in the
newspaper but not outside, would chew everything and cry the whole night
until I put her in my bed.
I found books about the bond and evolution between the wolf and the
pitecamptus erectus until they became dog and men /woman, boring books about
training, a good book about Bassets and the Basset Hound Owner's Survival
Guide. 

I don't know how much I learned from this latter one, I just know that I
went to work laughing like a maniac in the bus as I read it and the return
home was the same. In it I learned about the Daily Drool, about waddles for
rescues, I learned A LOT about backyard breeders (I had no idea about it and
yes, shame on me, Violeta is a pet store Basset). Xaxa, however, is a rescue
dog who had his euthanization planned if "I didn't go picking him up TODAY"
(I was the only rescue contact in Calgary that wonderful killer had - he was
TOO OLD (7) - too SICK (AN EAR INFECTION) and aggressive ( he was sick,
lonely, had been gone from house to house, and he was HUNGRY - they gave him
a piece of meat and then with a fake hand -don't know how it works -took it
away from him). And we are talking about a Basset that went to the bridge
with a cookie in his mouth! I WOULD BE VERY AGRESSIVE TOO! So he was labled
"Not fit for adoption". If someone from the rescue didn't pick him up, he
would go to the bridge way, way too soon. I was the rescue person at that
time, thanks to Laurie Magorel from Winnipeg, of the Canadian Basset Rescue
Network.

He came home, had a vet check up, a clothing/collar/name tag/lead shopping
spree, a very good bath in warm water with Jonhson's Baby Shampoo and in a
month he was another boy. We taught him that it was ok to use any couch he
wanted, and sleep in any bed he found comfy enough.
He became our heart boy, shared 8 wonderful years with the family and
Violeta...all that started with Dianne Morgan's book.

So now I decided to buy a new one on Amazon.com (before I just read the
library one), and browsing it as soon as I received today, I realized a new
edition, with new info on rescues with email and all that, should be done as
soon as possible.
It is a great book, that show us the real life of Bassets and Basset owners:
the love, the rescues, the super funny stories of super smart dogs, the
Daily Drool...for me, it is a true Basset book for Basset owners book. The
everyday Basset owner. 
It may not be the book for serious breeders, veterinarians, strict trainers,
or, I mean, the people who will deal with the serious stuff (not that we are
not serious, of course we are, but we are more owners, who see the Bassets
as our babies, princess, princes, Kings, Queens, attire addicted Hounds,
Bassets that can talk to the ones who are already at the bridge. We join to
get money for rescues, we make T-shirts, we buy T-shirts, etc..)

I don't know much about anything, but it seems to me that the two kinds of
books are incredibly necessary and important. Both kinds will inform the new
(and not so new) Basset owner/Basset slave. So reading the comments at
amazon, I have to admit both kinds (Owners/Slaves) are well intentioned and
love those long bodied, short legged, sweet beings.
Since books like Diane Morgan's are as necessary (there is one I saw "Deer
Auntie Peggy") as the more "serious" kinds, I would like to contact Diane,
and talk to her if she would be willing to launch a new edition of this
great book.

That are my 2 cents about the book and my idea of a new edition, because
nowadays, well, everything changes and change very fast.

If Dianne is in the list or anybody who knows her is, please ask her to
contact me if she wants to. I will be very glad to help.

Drool to all who needs it,

Virginia, mom to Violeta and Xaxa (in heaven now)

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