<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Marigold</div><div>Gotcha Day March 1, 2003 - A sad farewell Sept. 13, 2008</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Six years ago as we were still mourning the loss of Kerstie, it came to me that I wanted my next basset to be named Marigold. I found this beautiful basset already named Marigold on Petfinder and she was only about 500 miles away in Tucson so I emailed AZBHR and asked if she was available and what was her story. I was told that she had been "backdoored" out of a kill shelter into Arizona Basset Rescue covered in ticks and suffering from tick fever and that she was now in a foster home recovering.<div><br></div><div>Her description read "Marigold (Mari) is one of our sweetest flowers in the garden (her foster mom had been a florist). This 5 YO (?) tricolor female was rescued from a shelter and obviously had a difficult life. Mari is a submissive little girl who seems to love everyone and is so grateful to AZBHR for the care and kindness she has been receiving. . . . . . . The only prerequisite Mari needs is a kind owner she could love forever."</div><div><br></div><div>We applied and after her recovery and waiting four long months we were able to bring her home and give her the love she deserved. She made herself at home and became our alpha girl. She was our 6th basset and the first one that we didn't know the whole story. It was believed she had been a puppy mill breeder because her front teeth were ground down from possibly gnawing on a wire fence. I often thought she had escaped her hell and was eventually picked up and taken to a shelter. She never shared her past other than she didn't like fireworks, gun shots and horses and she was the only basset that would not kiss us.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweet Marigold we can't believe that you are now gone from our lives and how the five and a half years you shared with us seemed to fly by. We hope that you have found Kia at Rainbow Bridge and she has escorted you to the buffet because you never met any food you didn't like (especially our tomatoes). We know Kerstie sent you to heal our broken hearts.</div><div><br></div><div>A video tribute to Marigold:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande"><a href="http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb248/jodinek/?action=view¤t=TributetoMarigold.flv">http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb248/jodinek/?action=view¤t=TributetoMarigold.flv</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">- Judy & R.T. (broken hearted foodslaves in NM), Pumpkin Pie & Abby (missing their pawtner in crime)</span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Thank you AZBHR and other hard working rescues that make such a difference in the dogs lives</font></div></div></body></html>