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<DIV><FONT face=Candara>I am one of the droolers that just cannot keep up on my
reading of posts...I am always behind. So please forgive me if what I am about
to share is already well known. Tommy Hilfiger did his fall fashion
campaign as a tailgate party of the Hilfiger family along with their Basset
Hounds. I am about the least fashionista person (actually
anti-fashionista) but this was brought to my attention because a design person
contacted me to hire my Bassets for a clothing catalog photo shoot BECAUSE of
the Hilfiger ads. She told me that everyone wanted to copy these
ads. You can google "Basset Hounds in Hilfiger ads" and get several links
to see the photos. Two of my Bassets were actually hired for the photo
shoot for the upcoming clothing catalog. The photos were modeled off
of the Hilfiger ads. This was the first time we had ever done anything
like this and discovered that "model" dogs are paid very, very well. My
dogs are not professionally trained so I requested a lot of prayer from all of
my friends and my church and they behaved perfectly....I was happily
surprised. One of the two, Gabriel, has been obedience trained and the
other, Sunshine, is the daughter of my Mr. Incorrigible Wally so she is kind of
a "loose cannon". I attribute their success to the grace of God ....lots
of answered prayers. Everyone at the photo shoot was enamored with the Bassets
and loved on them and asked lots of questions about the breed. I hope we
were good ambassadors for Basset Hounds. I think this is the perfect job
for a Basset Hound because they so enjoyed meeting all of the new people and had
lots of time just to lay around between shoots and even in the photos they just
got to chill out...something Bassets are very good at. It was actually fun
for my dogs and for me. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara> Then while watching
"Parenthood" (on NBC on Tuesday nights) two weeks ago, there was a
Basset Hound. He was being walked and greeting the family in a Halloween
costume. The only problem was that he was not allowed to really act like a
Basset....no real greeting or rolling over for a belly rub....he just stood
there and then walked off with his owner. But I was so happy to see our
wonderful Bassets on TV. Also recently here in Texas the furniture
company, Roomstore, has featured a Basset in their ad. So maybe Tommy
Hilfiger is bringing some attention to our wonderful breed. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Candara>Bonnie Harlow and the Blessed
Bassets</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>