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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I’m
just getting caught up on the last couple week’s drools, (it’s been
crazy around here) and I wanted to chime in on the thread from last week
regarding sudden neediness and bassets being very clingy (or more so than
usual). I read both of the posts on this subject and got goose pimples up
and down my arms because Diva has been acting the same exact way for the last
week or maybe 10 days. I was thinking that it could be the new fosters we
brought home, but it’s been going on since before then. She got to
the point where she was standing under my feet while I brushed my teeth,
sleeping curled up outside my bedroom door and waking from a dead sleep to
follow me if I went from the sofa to the bathroom. She is my shadow
normally, and she follows me everywhere and wants to be with me constantly,
which is fine because I love her company more than most people I know, but this
behavior was different, somehow, and it seemed to have something else
associated with it, like she was afraid that if she was more than an inch from
me I’d disappear forever. Nothing has changed in our home, at least
that I’m aware of. On a basset level, who knows…maybe
something I did makes me smell different, but I can’t think of what it
could be. Anyway, I found it strange that all three of our hounds were
exhibiting this really clingy type of behavior almost at the same time and that
it had come on suddenly, without any triggers. What’s up with
that??? (I can hear the Twilight Zone music playing in the background!!!) <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'>Where’s Diva? Just find mom, and look down.</span></b><span
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