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<DIV>I am very sorry Floyd had to leave for the bridge. G-d bless you Wen for all you do! I know about bassets and their emotions because Snoopy is a basset. He's actually quite the basset. Ahrooooooooo to you from Snoopy. Snoopy was loved SO much when he was a baby. Snoopy was somebody named Dianne's prince charming. It's very clear he expected to be treated as a member of the family. He is very sweet and has many gestures and habits that remind me of a human infant. He is careful and deliberate and neat and actually speaks (kind of). He clearly remembers everything. He gets so depressed around the holidays .... you want to see Snoopy cry, just cook a turkey. My daughter wants to buy him a Christmas stocking because she's sure he always had one. Anyone who has ever met Snoopy KNOWS he was somebody's little boy in a basset suit until one day when he was 4 .....
and Dianne died.</DIV>
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<DIV>We don't know what happened between that day in April when Dianne died, and that day in January when animal control found Snoopy skinny and sick wandering the streets in Southern Santa Clara county. They found him with a very aggressive Shephard, and they told me the Shephard had obviously been taking care of Snoopy for some time. Snoopy was a very expensive puppy at some point, as anyone who has met him can tell you. He was chipped and the shelter called the number. The person who answered explained that Dianne had died back in April. And Snoopy had been "given away." And they said they didn't remember to whom. And they said they won't come for him.</DIV>
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<DIV>Snoopy is pretty happy these days and very much loved and pampered and generally wonderful. But sometimes, something triggers a memory. I can just see it on his face. And he'll just lay down and cry. Seriously. I will NEVER forget, about 3 weeks after we brought Snoopy home from the shelter, he was laying on his back and Greg was rubbing his tummy and I walked over and started rubbing his tummy too and I asked him "Snoopy, can you feel the love?" He rolled over and just started to sob. I was shocked, I asked Greg if he was hurt somehow and Greg said he understood what I said and was overcome with emotion.</DIV>
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<DIV>These bassets never forget. And they have very human emotions. Not like a lab, lab's don't take things so seriously, bassets are much more like a human from where I sit.</DIV>
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<DIV>More later from the clueless momPerson</DIV></div></body></html>