<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I have laughed at the escapdes of bassets and their noses. Here is what happened at our house last night when my hubby started his nightly Vicks ritual...Holly's nose went nuts!</DIV>
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<DIV> <U>"I a Vicks Dog Now"</U></DIV>
<DIV>My Ma and Pa once had a cat that lives to 21; he had lots of habits, which really were such fun!</DIV>
<DIV>He loved to swing from real tall branches and ride behind my Pa upon his motorcycle making everyone in awe!</DIV>
<DIV>He'd sit upon my Pa's lap when he was on the throne and when Pa was home from work he never was alone.</DIV>
<DIV>BUT, Sam had one bad habit for which my Pa's to blame and Ma says now to "stop it" for he's giving me the same.</DIV>
<DIV>Every night when he goes to bed, my Pa gets out the Vicks and upon his nose and mouth a great, large glob he sticks!</DIV>
<DIV>Tonight as that ritual happened I was on the bed, AND suddenly into my nose a lovely odor spread.</DIV>
<DIV>Like flowers on a bright spring morn or candles in the night, I sniffed and sniffed that lovely smell but did I see it right?</DIV>
<DIV>Did that great smell within my nose from that blue jar arise? So much aroma in one place, I could not believe my eyes.</DIV>
<DIV>Oh, my sniffer snoot just trembled with vapors unknown to me but I could understand now just how hooked that cat could be.</DIV>
<DIV>So, in my head a plan is brewing when I see that bright blue jar, I'll wake right up so from my Pa, I'll not be very far.</DIV>
<DIV>I'll feign my sleep and lay real still, so Ma and Pa will see, what a snuggly, little puppy in bed with them I'll be. (then they won't put me down)</DIV>
<DIV>BUT...when that blue jar appears and the Vicks aroma spreads; I'll jump right into my pa's lap so my nose on it he'll spread.</DIV>
<DIV>(I'm hooked....I a Vicks Dog now....carrying on the proud heritage of Sam, the Cat.)</DIV>
<DIV>thanks, for reading, Maggie Honnold</DIV>
<DIV>Honnold's Hound and Furkitty Farm</DIV></div><br>
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