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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi
everyone, and happy Thanksgiving week to you all!! On Saturday, we had
our home visit from a lady at Helping Hands Basset Rescue so we could become a
foster family. I must say I am so proud of my girls!! They were
awesome! The lady brought two of her rescues, one who had just become a
foster failure and was on her way to her forever home after being found with
her teeth ground to the bone from trying to gnaw off whatever her previous
owners had used to tie her up for long periods of time with no food, and another
older girl who was the sweetest thing and both were just sooooooo smooshie!
Diva and Sophie excitedly welcomed both of them into the house without
hesitation and before very long, they were alligator mouthing each other,
wrestling over their stuffed toys, and doing the basset 500 all through the
house and yard. When she first arrived with the hounds, she said she was
going to leave one of the dogs in the car in its crate, because the weather was
nice and she said it would be a lot of excitement with both dogs at once, etc. But
I thought this was probably a test, since I had read a story on the drool about
someone else’s home visit a while ago, and I told her “no way…she
has to come in and be included in the fun. We don’t leave them in
the car…too much could go wrong” Anyway, long story short, we
passed with flying colors and we will be fostering soon!! I’m
waiting for the foster coordinator to contact me and let me know when we
begin. We are all so excited and can’t wait to help homeless hounds
find their forever homes. Drool to everyone who needs it, and there’s
plenty! I got SLIMED by one of the rescues when they were at my house…all
over my pants! The lady looked at me to see my reaction and I just leaned
down and said to the little basset “Ooh, that’s sweet healing drool
there! We’ll send that to all da houndies what needs it!”
(she may have thought I was insane…ha ha…) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Californian FB","serif";
color:#007122'>Jessica L. Sutton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:#007122'>Momma to Diva and Sophie and soon to be foster momma too!</span></b><span
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