<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> Today I had the pleasure of meeting the Tana Triplets. OMD what a group of adorable bassets. Annie, I had met</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">before, in fact, before she was Cookie's. I helped rescue her the first time, where she had been left behind on a </div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">property along with a horse and some cats. It ended up being lucky for Annie, that the first home did not work out or her. </div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Cookie and Blossom were a wonderful home for her. Along
with Annie, I met, Jenny, the stump tail girl, SWEET girl.</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">She knows what side her bread is buttered on, let me just say. Then there is Lacey, OMD what a beauty, she is sweet, loving </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">and very vocal. I can hardly wait to see them again. Maybe Cookie and I can arrange a </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif">play date</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> for Molly Bob. </font></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Lisa, thanks for the NILIF info, loved it, </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">OMD the news about Flash, I cannot even begin to </font><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif">imagine</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> your excitement , be is a guarded excitement. wonderful.</font></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">A crocheted basset pattern, where did you find it.???</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">The talk of large, big bassets, could not be ignored. I had Sherlock, 1980 to 1993, 13 years from gotcha day to Bridge day.</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">HE was a LOW slung, Drag it all in the dirt dog, Long ears, SHORT legs, wide chest and a very long body. From the tip of</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">his nose to the tip of his tail, he measured 60" He </font><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif">weighed</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> 78 pounds and had no fat on his body. I use to laugh at him, he liked</font></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">to sit up in the begging position and would just stay there for long bits of time. He snored like a 'drunk old fat man', and when he slept</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">it was usually flat on his back for hours on end. I say that his body was long, because, my next two boys, were at least 4/5" shorter, because</div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">when I went to put his reflecting walking coat on them, I had to shorten them by 4/5"</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">When
some would comment about his size, it was more about his </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif">length</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> and the width of his chest. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">I was appalled when I went to the wabr Bassset Blast, and a lady once bragged to me that her basset weighed, over 100 pounds, </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">She was just smiley and happy about it. YIKES<</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Martha and Molly Bob Digger</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Sherlock ATB Chance ATB Rex ATB</font></div></div></body></html>