<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div></div><div>Pw. Wendell W. Bottom, OEBE Viceroy here.....</div><div> </div><div> The mom slave doesn't post much for us anymore, life gets in the way, but we have been here since I was 5 months old (I'll be 11 this year) and she found out about the DD from her (now dog eared) edition of the Basset Hound Owner's survival Guide. Now, she has excuses, too much work, new family, new baby... too much time spent with us.... She even missed our Calendar Day on 2/2!! (Bad momslave) We read the DD whenever we can. There are often "DD catch up" days where we read a weeks worth at once. </div><div><br>Couple things. One, we miss the old days of avenshures, but us OEBE and BABES avensuring hounds are gettin old and some are watching from the Bridge.... We don't need the MIBs watching
over us anymore as we fly the Concorde or sail the seas... the new days are good too, just different. We at the former "Moon Zoo" are sad that we don't play on the DD anymore the way we used to, but there are others here now. We are not happy with the crankiness in the DD family... it makes us sad. We have friends that we love from the DD that are better friends than our "real life" friends - people we "talk" to at least every other day via email that we met here... and there will be more - there's nobody in the world like basset people!</div><div><br> Mods, we love you (especially my "Auntie Sandy") and are happy you kept the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298075720_0">Drool</span> alive when Auntie Nancy retired. We were scared it would all end then we were happy it didn't.</div><div><br> And we MISS you, especially when the dd includes stuff about penie largements and working at home with someone we don't know
and stuff like that....</div><div><br> We have dd members sick and in the hospital, OMBR is falling behind in votes, drool that needs to be slung, swaves that need to be twained, silly stories that need to be shared with a community of fellow members who "get it".... I'm ready to focus now..... anyone with me?</div><div><br> That's it from me...<br> Pw. Wendell W. Bottom, OEBE Viceroy</div><div>with Bailey Mackenzie OEBE Evil Enchantress (rescued from Ohio basset rescue cause of the DD), Probert, BABES Pugilist (saloot), and Abby the baby bassetdor (also rescued because of the drool). And the bassetcats...Sparkey and Bilbo<br> At the Chicagoland Regional OEBE HQ <br> Served by momslave Heather, daddy Sean, and our two legger brother CT and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298075720_1">baby sister</span> Josiebean<br> </div><div style="font-family:arial,
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