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class=339123722-01072008>I wish I had more available.. and will get them up when
I can find the rest.. but ....in pictures... this is how I was introduced to
bassets...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=339123722-01072008>BHCM - Basset Hound Club of Maryland, my father, hounds
galore, and my father's artwork (cartoon of two hounds) plus others he'd penned
(the caricature one was done by a friend) ... one of my father's other really
good drawings was "Three Dog Night" </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=339123722-01072008>I was born into a basset clan .. father & mother
raising bassets for about 6 years before I touched ground, and for a total of
about 18 years, but unfortunately having to relocate for work, caused us to
leave the field trials and the farm... from 18 show hounds to 3 family hounds.
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class=339123722-01072008>That was 1962 to 1979, our last from the family pack
passed in 84, after my single term in the military returning home and being
given a puppy for christmas (yup one of "those") and he was with me for 14 years
6 months and 19 days before I had to make the hardest decision in my life...
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class=339123722-01072008>Enter BROOD and Riley, the first of my adopted pack in
August 2004, add the salt & pepper of Franklin to that mix in 2005, and then
add my permanent foster Henry (nut-ball prime) in 2007.
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class=339123722-01072008>ee July 19th of the current Drool Calendar (those of
you that have them), or my well worn "The Boys - aka - Tres
Amigos"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=339123722-01072008>There has never been another breed of dog for me..
their smell, their attitudes, their insanities, their ups, and ups even more...
their calm before, after, and MAYBE through the storm..
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class=339123722-01072008>I love being able to rub on their sides and have two or
more feet of dog there to put my hands through... I love the gigantic paws, the
ears that can reach past the tips of their noses.. and the extra long reach of
the ears' when family members (my nephew mostly) get close enough to do snooter
kisses and get <WHACKED> in the face by a flying ear under my control..
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class=339123722-01072008>I love their voices.. the way they sing, the way they
bay.. I can't think of any one thing you could take away from a basset that
would make it any better... and loosing any one of their traits would make them
so much less of a hound to me.. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=339123722-01072008>No other breed. I love dogs.. don't get me wrong
.. but those others... they're 'dogs' .... the Basset ... thems is
hound...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=339123722-01072008>-Robert</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><B>From:</B> dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org
[mailto:dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Val
Brewer<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Dailydrool] How did you get attracted to the basset
hound breed?<SPAN class=339123722-01072008><FONT face=Arial
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>I've been wondering how other droolers became
attracted to the basset hound breed. I knew no bassets growing
up. I think my only familiarity with bassets was from Hush Puppy
ads.</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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