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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My kids have all been raised with dogs and they are
not afraid of them, large or small. Bassets are not typically aggressive,
but our dwarfed coonhound Walter tries to be top dog among the hounds
here. Well, my 9 1/2 yr old daughter, who is pretty petite-- wearing
a size 6/7 still--, saved her best friend's little brother today, and I credit
her knowledge of dogs' pack behavior and ability to be in charge of any and
all fosters we have. A neighbor's dog was running around on her friend
Caroline's property in the country (Juliana spent the night there.) It's a
large lab that is very friendly--even swims with Caroline and her little brother
in their pool. Well today it was decidely UNfriendly and for no apparent
reason, ran over, knocked little Anthony (he's 5) off his bike and started
attacking him. Caroline's mom froze and screamed, Caroline screamed, and
my little girl raced across the yard, hauled that big dog off him, picked up
Anthony and ran as fast as she could up to the house! She shows aboslutely
no fear at anything--which is probably what that dog realized. All of our
dogs here recognize us as the Alphas--we haven't had a dog be aggressive to any
of us (to each other, maybe, but not to humans.) So Anthony has some
puncture wounds to his back and shoulder and Juliana said she got a few
scratches, but otherwise she's fine and no, she wasn't scared at all, she said
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Susan and the Hoptown Bassets + 7<BR>Murphy,
Jeremiah, Twinkie, Walter, Rusty Paws (ATB),Sammy (ATB), Nellie (ATB), Barney
Boy (ATB) & Bert(ATB), Bianca(ATB), Sapper, Liam, Poppi, Danica,
Ginger, Justice and Luke<BR>Bluegrass Basset Rescue, Inc<BR>A Basset is an
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