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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Susan Booker and I would
like to elaborate on my recent posting about Arlene Kahn and the Basset Hound
Rescue League (BHRL) in Maryland.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are
concerned that some people may think that this 501c3 organization no longer exists
when it is, in fact, alive, well and barking up a storm!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The BHRL began doing
rescue work over 25 years ago and, although many long-time Droolers are aware
of Arlene’s work, her efforts are not as easily recognized these days. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>BHRL is on the web at </span><a href="http://www.bassethoundrescueleague.net/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.bassethoundrescueleague.net</span></a>,
but because <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Arlene does not own a
computer she relies on other worker bees to communicate for her.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Still, Arlene continues to place around 200
dogs a year; primarily basset hounds, but also dachshunds, corgis, hound mixes,
and some other mixed breeds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Most BHRL
dogs waiting to be placed are in foster care, but some are in kennels either in
North Carolina or Reisterstown, MD.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Naturally, the BHRL is always happy to receive contributions and is in
search of additional forever and foster homes, as well as more means of ground
transportation.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I am eternally grateful
to the BHRL and want to make sure that it is not forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I adopted my bassets Mabel (aka "the
evil one") from the BHRL in July 2009 and Jackson (the notoriously
disobedient one) in February 2010. Those efforts also put me in touch with a
devoted animal advocate, Joan Fetter, who handles the website and Petfinder
connections for the BHRL, and who at that time was also responding to all
emails.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That, in turn, led to me taking
on all BHRL email responsibilities. Thanks to a posting on the Daily Drool in
which I asked for interested volunteers, I recently put my email duties into
the capable hands of the wonderful Susan Booker who is doing an outstanding
job. Susan has a wealth of computer and organization knowledge and ideas for
the BHRL.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s a really exciting time
for anyone else who might be interested in helping out this great organization,
so please let us know!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You can reach us
at </span><a href="mailto:bhrl@bassethoundrescueleague.net"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">b</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">hrl@bassethoundrescueleague.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">or </span><a href="mailto:bhrl.susanbooker@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">bhrl.susanbooker@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Susan gets the emails sent to either address.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">As Arlene says on the
BHRL site… “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It's always a time to
be thankful for the simple things in life: a warm bed, a satisfying meal and
the companionship of friends and family you love.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">BHRL has been working to provide these very basic things and more to
Basset Hounds and other hounds in need</i>.” </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We look forward to working
with you all, maintaining this tradition of service to the hounds we all love
and their people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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