<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>Hi Basset Gang,</div><div><span class="tab"> </span>I thought you guys might enjoy some basset silliness due to all the recent postings on loss and illness! I wish everyone comfort and peace who is dealing with a recent loss or caring for a beloved ill human or canine. </div><div><span class="tab"> I want to send out special prayers and support to anyone who is currently caring for a loved one with cancer. I am currently caring for my beloved mother who was recent diagnosed with cancer and is going through chemo therapy. It is a tremendous challenge to deal with the emotional upheaval and the HUGE amount of medical information and treatments. God Bless all of you! Anyway, on to my bad boy/angel Beau!</span></div><div><span
class="tab"><span class="tab"> I tell Beau everyday that he is naughty because he has freckles!!! <span id="misspell-0" class="mark">HAHAHAHA</span>. He is my animal control boy. He was found wandering the streets of Tampa dragging a chain behind him and he had apparently been kept on a chain for 3 or 4 years and his collar had embedded into his neck. He was also <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">microchipped</span> and registered through the <span id="misspell-2" class="mark">AKC</span> and neither owner nor breeder would claim him after being contacted 3 times.</span></span></div><div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"> Any who, Beau's curiosity is notorious here! He insists on peeking in every cupboard <span id="misspell-3"><span>every time</span></span> we open them and he cannot resist the allure of the 'frig! Well, in the morning when I shower, he
has to push aside the shower curtain to see what I am up to. He also likes to lick the water off your legs. One morning curiosity and affection must have overwhelmed him while I was showering because the next thing I know, Beau launches himself 3 feet off the floor and bounces off my back and lands back on the bathroom floor. He must have been shocked and dazed because it took him a minute or so to recover and go back to merely peeking at me in the shower! <span id="misspell-3" class="mark">HAHAHAHA</span>! Needless to say he has not tried that again and luckily, I was not hurt just shocked as I was washing my hair! I know I am finally getting used to his antics because this did not even phase me!!!</span></span></span></div><div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"> He is the world's sweetest boy and my only basset who never squabbles with any of the
other dogs. He never growls or does the Basset scream in anger--unlike Fancy and Luke!!!</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Your is Bassets,</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Marie Campbell</span></span></span></span></div><div>Man Plans ~ God Laughs <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></div><div></div></div></body></html>