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<DIV>As with most of the eastern US we experienced periods of torrential
downpours today. I let the bassets out this am in a mild drizzle while I fixed
their bowls. Within a minute of putting them out, a downpour started. I hurried
through meal prep and went to open the sliding door and there were three very
wet bassets huddled under the table on the deck. The problem was that it was
raining so hard that my rain gutters were overflowing creating a waterfall
effect. All three did not want to come out from under that table until I waved a
food bowl. My house had three big puddles at their feeding stations when they
finished. Fast forward to tonite. A mild drizzle when I got home so I let them
out and began filling their bowls. Again, within a minute the downpour started
along with the overflowing gutters. This time they were so scared of the
"waterfall" that even the bowl didn't tempt them. After a few minutes of
coaxing, Crackers and Jordan came in but not Loki. No, my brave little boy was
not even tempted by the food bowl. I tried everything from throwing a parka
across a chair to create a tunnel to dropping bits of chicken. No dice.
Meanwhile, I am getting soaked and water is splashing into the family room.
Finally after about 10 minutes, he tucked his tail between his legs and came
over to me and dashed through waterfall. Now in addition to drying off three
soaked to the skin bassets, my family room floor is soaked (thankfully it is
vinyl) so I am mopping and drying bassets. Loki and Crackers like getting
toweled off but Jordan seemed to think a belly rub would be better and her belly
wasn't even wet! They all finished the process by finding a piece of furniture
they could roll around on and I am just throwing towels on the floor for the
time being. And thankfully I wore cotton khakis today so I am just drip drying.
Hoping for some sun soon!</DIV>
<DIV>Kathy with the soggy trio of Crackers, Loki and
Jordan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>