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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>I know I do not write too often about a specific hound here. But I want you all to know a little about Willow.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Willow came to us back in 2005, I think, or 2004, but thinking 2005. Springtime, it was. She had been adopted out at about 4yrs of age through SBR, and was now being returned, at age 10, due to I cannot remember. I received her for the rescue. Her owner had let her get a huge yeast infection, and from about her shoulders down, she was hairless, and her skin was angry…you know red and hot. Her face and ears were mostly bald. It was all I could do to be civil to the woman, who complained that nothing she did helped Maggie. Oops, forgot, her name was Maggie when she came back in. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Come to find out, when I took her to the vet for SBR, they recognized her immediately, as she was a patient with them. Doc told me he could never get the woman to follow through with her skin regimen to get her better. At that point, we started the regimen, which was a bath every 3 days, in Maleseb, let it sit for ten minutes and rinse well. Also she was on ketoconazole (SP?) for several months. It was a PIA, but baths were a bonding time for us, as I would tell her stories in which she was the heroine. I do think she enjoyed some of the “tails”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>About 4-6 weeks later, her hair started growing back, her face became soft and she was itching less and less. We nicknamed her, the Hairy Beast. We took Maggie to a dog event, and decided to get her read by a pet psychic. We were told she hated the name Maggie, as the young boys in the home called her maggot. She was left either in the garage or the back yard and basically alone since no one wanted to touch her. And then the psychic told us, she liked the name Willow. We left and sat down for a few minutes and I decided to see if the psychic was good. I called out, Willow, and she came right over. So that was her name, Willow. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Willow stayed on SBR’s adoption page for several years. She could be such a B***ch that I was always willing to let her go to a home where she could be an only dog. She can be, and still is, soooo crabby to the others. I just pulled her off Valentine last night. Pat finally convinced me we were her home and she was never getting adopted, so she became official a couple years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Willow is now about 16+. She is cranky, and very grey, but still has the last word around here. She rules with her toothless growls. Her time is shorter than I would like, but she continues to be a HUGE presence on our home. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>As time has gone by, we nicknamed her many things, but Willow Beast is our favorite, Beast stands for B***ch of the East. She wears the title proudly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Willow will be Senior Houndsabound’s submission in the 2012 Senior Basset calendar contest. She deserves to be honored. She will also grace 2/26/2012 on the DD calendar next year.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Go Willow! Long live Willow Beast!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Drool to all who are in need this evening.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Wen and the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><a href="http://www.seniorhoundsabound.org">www.seniorhoundsabound.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></body></html>