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<DIV>Hey Ramone you and your Basset Furrends look sooooo beautiful and happy
together!</DIV>
<DIV>That calendar has and does always bring a smile...maybe a tear.
Such wonderful loved hounds.</DIV>
<DIV>Thank You to Laura Salmon and all the Basset Elves for your hard work
getting the calendars to us</DIV>
<DIV>Basset Lovers!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>Becky who rescued Ramone site unseen the very night of the loss of our
house in the fire reallly did a grrreat save! Becky not only rescued a
challenging sort of darlin Bassadore (who as a wee baby got into the
hands of a frat house group of young men and was thrown around like a
baseball game of catch at 5 weeks at parties where he was saved
by a young lady who brought him to us at Basset Rescue of Puget Sound.</DIV>
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<DIV>He was a most abused and hurt little being. Look at him now!
Happy as a clam with his Basset family.</DIV>
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<DIV>Becky rescued Ramone and brought gifts to us besides. We had
nothing left except what we were wearing and our car. Becky gave
us a box of people rescue stuff like tooth brushes and towels...and a
Bassetty Blanket. We spread that blanket on the motel bed and the
three hounds we got to take with us hopped right up. The
exhausted Bassets and the warm soft blanket...it suddenly was home. In the
days since the fire where our house burned we have come to know/and know
of so many wonderful people in Basset Rescue and on the DD!!!
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<DIV>We have used the Basset Throw blanket from Becky (guardian of Ramone
who is on today's calendar) every day since the fire two years
ago. When in the cheapie motel with only 3 Bassets and in a sort of
numb daze that blanket brought us such comfort. To know Ramone was in
safe loving hands was priceless.</DIV>
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<DIV>In the calendar photo for today the 27th...he looks like a regular
sort of loved rescue Bassadore and not a crazie mixed up hurt
being. Becky and Ramone we still talk of you and still are
astounded by the goodness of Bassets (and Bassadores) who no matter how
damaged manage to come out able to love.</DIV>
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<DIV>I sure love all the people behind the Basset photos who love these
hounds.</DIV>
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<DIV>Every year it is my present for Christmas and it lasts all year long.
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<DIV>XOXOXOXOXXO</DIV>
<DIV>Love and Woofs, Alexa</DIV>
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