Big time Basset Hound rescue

This amazing story had to be shared and surely it is a story to remain in a lot of special hearts…. 61 Basset Hounds, rescued from a puppy mill in Red Bluff, California…

Addy Dawes, the secretary of the Golden Gate Basset Rescue was leading the pack of the rescue convoy and who organized the volunteers. By noon the day before Christmas 2009, the biggest basset hound rescue had begun.

Rescue volunteers found basset hounds at the failed puppy mill.

Photo: Courtesy / Golden Gate Basset Rescue

A gray-haired lady in an idling pickup was waiting for them, and silently turned around and led the way down a small road unshaded with fading trees and dotted with potholes. This desolate place, almost an hour off the nearest highway, gave new definition to the phrase “in the boonies.”

The lady in the pickup stopped at a compound of sorts – low-lying buildings fronting on outdoor pens secured by chain-link fencing, which was in turn secured by forbidding iron crossbars. The surprise was that there were no watchtowers because to the rescuers it looked like a prison built under budget restraints. It resembled most a Gypsy compound without the gaiety, or a migrant camp in some doggie “Grapes of Wrath.”

The first thing the rescuers did was to give the dogs a bath. To my nostrils, a basset in need of a bath smells like a Rum Crook cigar, but to the basset-loving rescuers they had another scent entirely. “They smell like warm Fritos,” said Addy Dawes.

All were very dirty, and ranged from pups to adults….they were all microchipped, bathed and named and all were off to a better life in more than thirty foster homes.

The Golden Gate Basset Rescue ( ggbassetlovr@hotmail.com) of Petaluma is a virtual organization and works only via  through the internet and are working to place all the dogs into permanent homes.

A female tricolor named Doris was one of the rescued basset hounds who found a foster home.

Photo: Courtesy / Golden Gate Basset Rescue

Kaley corgi kisses !!! …boy these pups are cute… hehhee, do you think there is room for a hound dog in your home?

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