<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">O! Happiest of days! </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Adm.JED LOVES Bistory (Basset History), military and otherwise, and with his keen interest in all things Drool, Adm. was most delighted to learn of the courageous service of Sir Belvedere, Admiral of Good Ship Lollipul!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Adm. JED unsurprised to hear of Evil Basset Empire and thanks Food Slave Pam for serving Sr. Belvedere in his lifetime mission to guard against enemies Fureign and Domestic.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">CLASSIFIED (For Droolers Only)</span></div><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">It is little-known but true: Adm. JED would not serve the Feet had it not been for The Daily Drool. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Before enlisting and receiving commission from Pacific Basset Feet (under the legendary leadership of Commander Bo, an Admiral and Commander-in-Feet, PBF), the Adm. was In A Pickle.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">This from Adm's unpublished bemoirs (Basset Memoirs): </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">"Whilst on a super secret undercover mission to Bakersfield, CA, as a young HoundCadet, I was clipped on the noggin by a full rack of BBQ pork ribs, which fell from a careening catering truck on I-5. as I marched along the side of the road."</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">O! Calamity!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">The handsome and courageous ManHound Droolers know as Adm. JED immediately lost all memory of Who He Was and the World Basset Union he was sworn to uphold!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Because of his injury (and his youth), he wandered about the hi-ways and by-ways of Bakersfield, flea-ridden, filthy, starving, with a terrible infection of tooth and sinus. No-one knows how long he wandered. No-one took charge of the young hound until reports reached the help line of Golden Gate Basset Rescue and...</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Special Ops Arrived! The BEALS! (Basset SEALS)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">By the grace of Golden Gate Basset Rescue, young Jed was pulled out (by astoundingly brave BEALS Nancy and Judy, who tirelessly criss-cross massive distances for Hounds In Trouble. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Adm was placed in the loving arms of Fergusen Foster Family.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">After emergency care by the Ship's Surgeon, orders were cut for Jed by GGBR Commander in Chief (that would be Gloria Tannehill-Carlson, fearless president and leader). Jed was assigned--still with No Memory!--to Santa Rosa.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Having been entrusted with the refugee, clueless basset collector (that would be me) sought out information on Hounds Majestic. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">The future Houndservant was directed to The Daily Drool, Commenced reading every post for intelligence Basset.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Almost immediately, the legendary Commander Bo posted news of the Feet. Clueless basset collector was reading Drool aloud to Jed. The effect on Jed was ELECTRIC.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">O! The joy on his mournful face! O! The new-found hope!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">His massive head snapped up, quick as a mongoose. Staring up rom his wrinkled big paws. He looked me straight in the face and bwuffed: "I Wanna Be An Admiral!!" </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Oh, ok. It was kind of whiney, but he was entitled after his Terrible Ordeal.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Well, of course, if Jed enlisted, he needed a Dog Robber and Houndservant at his side.Someone to run the mess, chauffer him on patrols various, clean his ears, keep the Admiralty shipshape and Bristol fashion, PAY THE BILLS.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Houndservant then (as now) clueless; did not realize the Pacific Basset Feet offered COMMISSIONS. So, rather arrogantly (but naively), Houndservant followed Jed's orders and proclaimed the newly-minted Adm. JED "Snatch" Basset (middle name well earned, believe me) commander of the Sonoma Admiralty.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Upon posting his new command to The Drool, Adm. JED was pleased as punch to be immediately and graciously invited to accept a commission the legendary and prestigious Pacific Basset Feet. By Commander Bo himself!</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Adm. JED has taken a solemn oath to follow the Commander into any battle, conflict, or Pawty, and serve PBF on detached duty from the bow of the HMS Certifiable. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">"We serve at the pleasure of the Feet," Adm. says.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(Recruiting Commercial for Civilian Houndservants and Hounds Magestic: There is nothing finer than serving the World Basset Union, defending against enemies fureign and domestic. Adm. urges you to Google Pacific Basset Feet and consider enlisting before the next high tide. It's a fine, fine thing to serve!)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Adm. humbled to be one of 11 Admirals serving the Feet.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(PBF is wisely commanded, indeed, as any and all may enlist in whatever capacity they see fit, at the rank of their choosing, in the specialty of their ability. Adm. particularly admires NCIS division, as in No Cats InSide. Adm. serves in Basset Intelligence Group himself. O! Would that the world be run so elegantly as to allow "opt in" on every level!)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Upon enlistment in PBF Adm. JED has begun recoving his memories of Life Before the Flying Rib Attack.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alghouth still struggling against amnesia from the flyng rack of ribs, Adm. now working on his slowly-recovering memoirs, which is to say, he dictates to Houndservant now and again. Recently began telling Houndservant of his mis-adventure in 1937, when serving undercover in Berlin. An older, sophisticated Lady Hound, Marlene Dogtriech, very nearly capsized the Adm.'s mission (he was under deep cover as a super secret ninja (turtle) assasin, never mind why)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Houndservant begs for more details; Adm. says "all in good time, all in good time!".</font></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Houndservant gives daily thanks for the friendship and wisdom of Daily Droolers. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Adm. says, "Better mates never lived!"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Semper Fido Indeed! Huzzah! Hip Hip Ahroo-Ray!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Leftenant Lea Pierce</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Houndservant and Dog Robber to Adm. JED "Snatch" Basset</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Sonoma Admiralty/Pacific Basset Feet/Basset Intelligence Group</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">By Order of: Golden Gate Basset Rescue</span></div>
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