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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A little while ago there were two basset girls
whose sick owner needed to get them into rescue. I was not involved as I
knew Bluegrass Basset Rescue could not help them as we have no place to put any
dogs. People just don't step up to foster down here. We have 3
active foster homes and none in the cities where the majority of dogs come
from. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, the girls' plight was supposedly solved,
but apparently it was quite convoluted and they are in danger now. The
girl who has them now emailed this to me when I explained why we could not take
them into this rescue [nowhere to PUT them--kennel space is $6 per day per dog
and we have no $$ for this]:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Well I understand. I am just confused because I
realize that this woman turned down some rescues taking her dogs (which I
didn't know until after the fact), but she didn't turn them down to give
the dogs to me. She was actually trying to sell the dogs, and after
someone went out there to buy them they told her that no one would buy the
dogs (in the condition they were in) and she needed to get them into
a rescue. A rescue in my hometown called me because they know that I have
contacts with other rescues at the other end of the state from where this
woman lived, and I called one of them to see if they would take them. I
had no idea the condition or that she had turned down other rescues
until I got there. It was so horrifying that animal control<BR> really and
truely should have interviened. I brought the dogs to bowling green to go
to the rescue but the rescue is ultimatly ran by the shelter and the
shelter decided that they were going to put them down. So I of course said
no<BR> because the reasons I felt were the wrong reasons and so that
is why I am in the situation I am in. I just felt that the most
important thing was to rescue these dogs from the horrible situation they were
in. I thought I had a guaranteed place for them to go, but that<BR> was
taken away after I got them down here. "</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If ANYONE out there can help us save these two
girls, please email me. We have no funds since the last 3 bassets we've
picked up were HW+. Both girls are in heat right now, and one is HW+
One's name is Kristie and one is Joyful. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Soldier Daddy is now due to redeploy in
November instead of December, and with dogs just not getting adopted down here,
I cannot bring them here for fear I will have a dozen when he comes home to get
peace and quiet after a year+ in Iraq.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Susan and the Hoptown Bassets + 6<BR>Murphy,
Jeremiah, Twinkie, Walter, Rusty Paws (ATB),Sammy (ATB), Nellie (ATB), Barney
Boy (ATB) & Bert(ATB), Bianca(ATB), Sapper, Liam, Poppi, Danica, MoMo
and Ginger<BR>Bluegrass Basset Rescue, Inc<BR>A Basset is an Asset!</DIV>
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