Howllo Fellow Hound and Chaps lovers: Well tomorrow is the big dreaded day. Chaps is getting his teeth cleaned and I just will worry until it is over. Can I get a group hug and some drool please? I would really appreciate it.
More worried Mom postings later….Love, Cat, Chaps (my burger boy) and Emmers
Howllo Fellow Hound and tipping the gold rush scale lovers!
Our friends, Mary, Harley, Biggs, Leo (the foster no longer!!) and the Kitties too of the Tipping Family and of TriState Basset Hound Rescue sent us a pan of gold for the House of Puddles! What a fantastic pan and we are Tipping our gold miner’s hats to you Mary!
The choker chain was 18K and the loop earrings and gold band were 14K. This pan of gold brought in 49.00 dollars. Wow! I am just thrilled and I know Marilyn and Mary will be as well. Here is the link to the HOP Gold Rush Firstgiving page so you can see this donation and others. Read all of the update and most of all….Please check your jewelery boxes!
Thank you Mary. We love you!
More Gold and Love Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and cherry pie corvette lovers: I know you are out there! As you can see I have added a link to the famous corvette raffle which is held yearly by Guardian Angel Basset Rescue, Inc.
This is so exciting! I was thrilled to see the House of Puddles as a raffle participant this year! We all know how well the HoPpers can sell raffle tickets!
So click on the link right above and learn how to purchase your raffle tickets today. Chaps will be getting his soon. Can you imagine the Mayor, riding on the back of the vet with his ears blowing in the breeze? Waving his majestic paw to the adoring masses????? I can! Slurp
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh………….Life is good.
More dreams later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and Movie Lovers:
Let’s be honest, I went to the movie to see Grace the Basset Hound. When the movie was over, my Mom turned to me and said, “what happened to the basset?”
The movie was about 2 hours long and the basset hound showed up about 2 minutes total. I think that the screen writer, Ann Peacock, really missed the mark on this one. Here is why. Every time they showed the basset hound, most people in the theater did the “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” thing. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh” equals good reviews. For goodness sake, Grace is featured right along Kit on the movie poster.
Not only was this a factor, but just the pure logic of the story. The little girl turns into a crime reporter and what better assistant could there be than a crime sniffing basset? Not only could the rescued basset have helped Kit but also earned her keep during this very “rooough” time in history.
My goodness, that would have really made the movie cute. I think the screen writer totally missed the mark.
Hey, have her people check with my people (Chaps and Emma) and I can tell her how it should have been written!
Hehehehehe
More screen writing tips later….Love Cat, Chaps and Emma
P.S. I definitely do not see a run on basset hounds happening
Howllo Fellow Hound and Kit lovers: My Mom and I are going to see
Kit Kittredge American Girl Movie today. It is so funny how the whole story is so relevant to me!
OK, here goes: The story takes place in Cincinnati. I live 2 minutes from Cincinnati. The little girl’s nick name is Kit. My nick name is Kit. Kit finds a homeless basset hound on the street, adopts her and names her Grace. I found a homeless basset hound on the street, adopted her and named her Lily, Grace of my Heart.
OK, how weird is all of this? I just love the fact that the story includes basset hound rescue during the depression. This is going to be so much fun. I will let you know how it is.
There was a fair amount of talk in the basset hound chat rooms about how this movie was going to cause folks to run out and buy a basset hound. I disagree. I don’t see a run on basset hounds coming out of this movie. Hey, I might have to eat my words, but I am going to keep up on this and let you know.
Here is a blurp that was on the Daily Drool not too long ago
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(sorry for the spacing, I could not get it to line up right)
“We had a really cool event for Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue this past. Thursday at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan. There is a new movie,
American Girl ‘Kit Kittredge’ opening July 2nd that features a rescued
homeless Basset Hound named Grace. The Basset in the movie was from
Toronto and was ‘unavailable’ for her red carpet premier so the movie
folks needed a Basset Double to play the part. The Basset needed to be
an old female and our Baguette after 12 years of managing the rest of
the pack in her role of Alpha Female and her amazing tolerance of the
two Sunny Hush Buppies this past year was a close match. Baguette
walked the red carpet for the first fifteen minutes followed by the
human actors / actresses. It was hilarious to see a couple hundred
paparazzi photographing her. She looks close enough to the Grace in the
movie that a couple of the kid actresses and some people involved in the
film stopped to pet her and tell her it was good to see her again. She
did a great job and raised a nice appearance fee / donation for
Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue. She was introduced on the stage in the theater as the ‘mascot
and star Grace’ and got big applause as she did the walk in the
spotlight and then waited for the humans. Anyone who has not taken a
Basset through a theatre packed with young children eating but mainly
dropping free popcorn has not truly experienced the Basset Hoover. She
got to sniff and in some cases get pets from Willow Smith (Will’s
daughter) Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) Julia Roberts and more.
We were stopped by a production crew from Animal Planet out of Toronto
on the way out, they had been there just to film ‘Grace’ on the carpet
and then shot some video of her outside the theatre and under the
marquee with her picture on it. They will be airing it in Canada in a
show about dog breeders. If any droolers to the North happen to get a
tape of it off Animal Planet we would be greatly indebted. After her
driver Philippe (courtesy of Warner Bros.) dropped her and us back at
our vehicle in NJ we took her for a celebratory whopper and large fries,
she slept well on the way home. “
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MUST SEE PHOTOBUCKET SLIDE SHOW!
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm202/ahrooowaffles/Grace/?albumview=
slideshow
We hope you have fun plans today!
Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Felllow Hound and blind hound lovers: Do you have a picture you can send me of your hound who has glaucoma? I am in the process of making a YouTube video to attach to Emma’s fund-raiser. Go to my contact page and send me a jpeg. Your hound can be a part of a really cool video I am making and help raise money for the Canine Health Foundation. You can see Emma’s new Firstgiving page right below!
More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
OMG! Howllo Fellow Hound and Emma Lovers: I have been working on this since our Emma went blind.
This is really important to us! Here is the link!
http://www.firstgiving.com/emmarudertbassethoundtown
Benevolent Emma! Please join her!
P.S. Plus you get a freebie! hehehehe
Howllo Fellow “well meaning and kind” Lovers: Today Emma will have a BIG announcement. Please check back and see how she plans to help other hounds!
Ah…..Benevolent Emma, I am so proud!
More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and Dreamy Emma Lovers! Hahaha! I just had to share this picture of our Emma. This was taken years ago. She was trying on a new snood she received as a present and just about to fall asleep. She was looking into the camera as if to say, “Mommy, how cute am I?” If you click on the picture it will be huge! Caution…..Cuteness over load!
More Emma later….Cat, Chaps and Emmers
Howllo Fellow Hound and Fragile Emma lovers! Angel left a comment on my last blog post about Emma and I had to laugh! Yes, she is that fragile! I finally have it under control, but it took thousands of dollars and many vet visits to figure it out. Angel, I am answering your questions in a blog posting because maybe it will help others with fragile hounds as well! hehehe
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omg~! w0w, she’s that fragile? and ur doing a fantastic job in keeping an eye on her! but 50 dollars for her chow? w0w0w0weee… that’s like over 2,000 philippine pesos here~!
and this post is very informative:
*jots down rabbit and potato chow, micro-waved shredded red potato slurry, slice of red potato*
what is a red potato? is it also the so-called sweet potato? how do u make the slurry, ate cat? hope u dun mind 
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There are more than 5,000 varieties of potatoes in the world. In the United States, the most common variety includes the red potato.
Round, red potatoes belong to the red family of potatoes and include the Red Lasoda and Red Pontiac varieties. Red potatoes have smooth, thin skins and white insides. This type of potato is firm and most easily used in casseroles, soups, salads or boiled, steamed and roasted.
I like to use red potatoes because they seem a bit sweeter to me. They also have a thinner skin and you should not give hounds thick potato skin.
These are not yams, aka sweet potatoes.
To make the slurry I take a potato about the size of the one above and grate it into two small containers, one for breakfast and one for dinner. These pictures show the breakfast serving. This one container is divided for Chaps and Emma.
I add water to make it look like this. I then microwave it for one minute and it turns into a mush. I mix it over their kibble and serve it warm. They both love it. Chaps used to be a picky eater until I devised this. By doing this I feel that Emma gets a bit of a treat.
Emma is allergic to protein along with a host of other things. The protein in commercial grade dog food would cause her to have UTIs (urinary tract infections). By switching her to a prescription diet with highly digestible proteins we were able to get this under control.
It is well worth the cost of the food to avoid all the medical problems that our poor Emma had. Bless her heart, she loves to eat and I am teaching her to say, “I’m hungry”! It is so cute, I cannot wait to capture it on video. She is sooooo smart.
I hope this helps Angel
More Later…Cat, Chaps and our little potato Emma!
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