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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Comic Sans MS">Western Missouri Basset Rescue has
had so many owner surrender calls lately it really is sad. Everyone it
seems is losing their homes. This week we got a call from two breeders
losing their homes and needing someone to take their hounds. One lady had 10
adults and 5 puppies. The other two adults and five puppies. We are a small
rescue, in fact we have only three volunteers, (at the Pet Expo time my family
pitches in and it brings us up to nine volunteers just for those few days of the
Expo). We really cannot handle a huge influx of dogs. I asked the lady in
St. Louis with the 15 dogs to try another rescue and I hope she did but I told
her if she did not get help wth them we would see what we could do. We
recently found out my job is being eliminated in a month and we have a lot
of worries so we just need some drool slung this way. We have
Luna who is getting two cysts removed this coming Monday, We have a boy
whose blood work shows his protein is at critically low levels we are trying to
figure out what is wrong but right now he is slowly starving because he cannot
keep protein in his blood. He eats like a piggy but he has lost ten pounds the
last few weeks. Our vet is trying several meds to help him right now and we hope
he gets better, in the meantime I took him off of our website, His name is Rudy.
( has anyone else had this happen?) Tinkerbell is still undergoing treatment for
her orbital disease of her eye, she still may need it removed but we are just
finishing up the antibiotics and are going to see what happens when she gets
through with the prednisone, And we are getting a lame puppy from a lady as soon
as he is able to leave his mother because the lady cannot afford to take care of
his leg and was thinking if we did not take him she might have to put this baby
to sleep. I know you all do wonders with all of that healing drool
so please send some our way. ( even though we are small we have saved 207
hounds over the past 5 years) please help us keep saving them send drool
quick!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>