Howllo Fellow Hound and Gold Rush lovers: I FINALLY have the gold rush totals for this totally pawsome package that Marty Clark sent to me for the gold rush. Marty is a BROOD volunteer. Please check out Brood’s website at:

BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF OLD DOMINION

Marty, your items were so bassetabulous and get this!
They were worth 115.00! Some of the items were not gold so I donated them to the breast cancer costume jewelery box at the jewelry store I go to.

These are the items that Marty donated. Most of the gold was 18K which brings in more doe! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee! Also, as you can see, there is a chain at the very bottom that was 14K.

This was a wonderful donation from a Brood volunteer. These items were 18K and help out the House of Puddles in a huge way!

That cool pink pin was broken but the gold was 18K. I had them pop out the center piece and I want to use it in the future for something! I think it looks like Marilyn! What do you think?

The other items were costume but hey, I beg for these pieces because you just never know!

These three pieces were donated to the breast cancer awareness box. Many of our regional jewelry stores have them and they fix the pieces and donate them to women who are going through chemo. It helps to have a pretty piece like one of these to ease the pain. I love that idea!

Thank you Marty, your donation will be sent to the HOP and 100% will go to the elder hounds. Basset hound town loves you for this and I know HOP does as well.

Please remember, you do not need to donate gold to give to the HOP Gold Rush! You can simply go to Firstgiving and give! Here is the link!

Firstgiving page for the Gold Rush!

More good news later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and bastiff lovers???

Well, we really do not know “who’s your daddy”, but these little guys look like bastiffs to me. Melynda, a friend of mine coined the term and I love it.

These little guys arrived as surprise packages at the House of Puddles. Many of you will remember that Marilyn, of the HOP, agreed to take in 11 year old April who was part of an animal hording situation in KY. She was skin and bones when she arrived at the HOP. April started gaining weight rapidly and Marilyn was shocked to find out she was preggers. Poor girl. Days later the monster pups arrived.

Both are boys and are named after two dearly departed boys from the HOP, Fred and Rudolph. The first picture is little Rudy and the second pic is little Freddie!

April and her boys are being fostered currently at a Rudolph’s Farm. Are they not the cutest boys you have ever seen?

April is doing great and Marilyn cannot wait to get her back at the HOP where she will NEVER see another of her many litters again. I am sure she is ready to start living large with the other HoPpers!

More Bastiff news later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and Victoria Lovers: I learned when I got home this evening that one of the Grand Dames of the House of Puddles passed away. Her name is Victoria. She passed, in peace with her head laying on her paws. A song came to mind when I was enjoying looking at all of the pictures of her so I went to YouTube to see if I could find it. Much to my satisfaction, I found the exact song and concert I attended in 1991 at Wembley Stadium in the London Borough of Brent. If you saw one of my earlier blogs today I was reminiscing about having high tea in London. So, all of this is very surreal for me right now.

We are all going to miss our “Queen Victoria” very much. This is my British tribute to her. All hail the HOP Queen….Forever in our hearts, forever in our souls. I will always treasure these pictures of you. Long live the Queen!

More fondness later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. I was in the 3rd row

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Howllo Fellow Hound and Basset Rescue Lovers:

Below is the list of basset hound rescues who signed up for the Lily Basset Bucks Give Away!

I am very excited about the money we raised as a town to help these wonderful organizations. Without volunteers, like the people who run these shelters where would our needy, homeless hounds be?

This economy has hit people hard and we are hearing more and more about the family pet that is taking the hit. It is really sad.

“Moving” has always been among the top reasons owners list for turning in their pets to a shelter. But this crisis is affecting even those who’d never dreamed of giving up their pets. Owners forced to sell their homes don’t have many options. They may find themselves sharing scarce space with friends or family, or dealing with landlords who’d rather accept the tenant who doesn’t have a cat or dog. Suddenly, there’s no room in their life anymore for a pet.”

So, thank you to all basset hound rescues! I hope to help many more in the future!

Suncoast Basset Rescue

All Bassets Cherished

House of Puddles

Golden Gate Basset Rescue

Arizona Basset Hound Rescue

Golden Empire Basset Rescue

Mid-Atlantic Basset Hound Rescue

Bluegrass Basset Rescue

http://www.bassetrescuedfw.org/

It is looking like we will meet our goal of sending 100.00 to each of these rescues. I will be doing the final tally on my birthday this Sunday! Stay Tuned and please donate. Thank you

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More later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and Gold Basset Hound Charm Lovers! I gave everyone fair warning and now it is mine! MINE ALL MINE (insert evil laughter here)! My Mom and Dad buying this 14K basset hound charm for me has pushed the Gold Rush FirstGiving page up to 40% fulfilled!

HERE IS PART OF THE ORIGINAL BLOG POSTING I DID ON 5-31-08 WHEN I RECEIVED THIS GOLD CHARM FROM ANNIKA and MURPHY FOR THE GOLD RUSH…………

Yes folks, for those of you with an eagle eye, that is a basset hound 14K gold charm. Of course Annika did not send this golden hound to be scrapped, that would be sacrilegious! This golden hound is in the HOP gift shop.

SOLD – SOLD – SOLD – TO MY MOM AND DAD FOR MY CHRISTMAS GIFT! YEE HA!

Check this out. (THIS IS JUST A COMPARISON LINK!)

I found the exact same charm on the internet and it goes for 186.35!

We are offering it for the low, low price of 95.00.
This includes a free 10 pack of
basset hound town greeting cards, a 20.00 value.

100% of the sale will go to the HOP. When you purchase this charm on my site the money will go directly to HOP. Marilyn will e-mail me and I will mail you the charm and the greeting cards. (END OF POST)

I knew this delightful delicacy would not last long and I was spot on. My Mom and Dad bought it for me for Christmas! I love Christmas shopping in June. The month of my birth!

This pushes Annika and Murphy’s total in gold donations to 476.90. This is just incredible! There is still a very cute 14K gold Teddy Bear Charm in the HOP Boutique that Annika and Murphy donated. Here is the link! But first….How about Murphy, the philanthropic hound? How cute is he? Totally!

14K GOLD TEDDY BEAR CHARM

Do you know any one that collects Teddy Bears and has a charm bracelet? Please pass this link to anyone and everyone you know. The Elders at the HOP would sure appreciate it! Slurp!

More Gold Rush stories later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. I am going to really enjoy those free greeting cards! hehehehehe

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Howllo Fellow Hound and April Lovers: April is a new arrival to the HOP. She was taken in by Marilyn from Susan of Bluegrass Basset Rescue. April is, “older than dirt” according to the vet who examined her after she was rescued from an animal hoarder in KY. Look how skinny she was upon arrival at the HOP!

Well, turns out, April was very pregnant. Marilyn thought is was odd how fast she began gaining weight! It looks like there are two pups and one was born this morning at about 9:00am.

Here is the picture of the puppy right after she cleaned it up. Poor girl, approximately 11 years old and still having puppies. Well, dear April these will be the last and Marilyn will make sure of it. I am going to give every one 2 links. This first one is the Webcam that Marilyn has set up, but it is down more than it is up. However, there is a streaming live chat that keeps us up to date.

Click here: APRIL’S LIVE HOP PUPPY CAM

Click here to help with the cost of this unusual situation:
APRIL’S FIRST GIVING PAGE

Can you believe this? Puppies at a retirement home! Marilyn, you deserve a metal. To make matters even more difficult, Marilyn is sick with a bad, bad cold.

More puppy news later, but for now, get on the CAM! Slurp! Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and HOP newsletter lovers: OMG, if you do not subscribe to the House of Puddles news letter you are missing out on huge fun. Marilyn, does a fantastic job and you can see pictures of the HoPpers. You can also learn who the new HopPers are and other fun facts. Here is a link to her current newsletter that I just received moments ago. You can subscribe via this link as well.

CLICK HERE

Laughing Out Loud @ House Of Puddles
News, Events, or JBL (Just Basset Laughs)

 

More laughing later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and gold watch lovers! Our friend Lynda Seal of AZBR sent in a package of gold and 2 golden watches for the House of Puddles Gold Rush. Her gold package was valued at 50.00 and is currently reflected on the firstgiving page.

Well, I just got to the watch shop today to obtain the value of the watches.

The larger one that is on the far left was worth 24.00 and that was for the casing only. The band was not gold. The two in the middle were not gold. The smaller one that is on the right of the watch grouping dated back to the late 1800s was only worth 2.00 for it’s parts, but every cent counts folks.

You guys would not have believed this watch shop and jewelery store. It is a few towns over but it is like stepping back in time. It was so cool. They are called Cleves and Lonneman. I cannot wait to go back. They also take sterling silver flatware so send any old pieces of flatware that you have and I will march it down to them for doe! I love this place and the folks are so nice.

As an aside, you would not believe the people waiting in line to cash in gold and silver. It was kind of odd. I have never seen anything like this in my life.

Lynda, thank you so much. Your donations have totaled close to 80.00 for the HOP. You ROCK!

Want to look at our Firstgiving page? Of course you do!

FIRSTGIVING GOLD RUSH!

More later…Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Hound and Florida Gold Lovers! I am so touched at how many of you are sending in gold for the House of Puddles! With gas being almost as expensive as gold it is hard for us to donate to our favorite charities. Not so for Kelly, Oreo and Snoopy!

Oreo – “Best as anyone can tell I am a boarder collie mix of some sort! My Mama rescued me from a shelter in north Florida 6 years ago”.

Snoopy – “Mama saved me from a man that was gonna send me back to the pound he adopted me from cause he said I was naughty…who me? Mama is pretty sure I am a Bagle (beagle/basset hound mix) cause I am too big to be a beagle and my ears aren’t long enough to be a basset!”
Look at this lovely grouping of gold! One piece in the grouping I found very nice, but more about that later.

I hustled right off to my jewelery store to see what the pieces were worth. The jeweler tested the gold and viewed it through a loop and there were 10K and 14K pieces. There was also a beautiful black hills 10K gold ring with a blue topaz stone. Well, I could not take my eyes off that piece.

The gold was worth 58.70! Wow, how bassetabulous is that? Pretty cool!

So, moving on to the ring! My jeweler and I researched it and determined that if the ring were new it could run as high as 100.00 or more. So, like I have done with previous rings I decided to put this ring in the
HOP boutique on my website, for 50.00 which all of the other rings are going for. (I still need to load 3 outstanding rings)

The scrap value of this ring would have been 28.50 for the 10K gold portion, the jeweler did not want the topaz. No way was I going to scrap this pretty little number!

When I got home, my Mom and Dad were looking at the flowers outside our home and I was telling them about the donation. They saw I was wearing the ring and asked me all kinds of questions.

Guess who got her birthday gift early? Me, me, me, me! My Mom and Dad bought the ring for 50.00, for my birthday, exactly one month early! My Mom and Dad were totally jazzed that 100% of their 50.00 is going to the HOP and I am just over the moon. Look how it matches my HOP support bracelet!!! Don’t look at how bad my hand needs lotion!

Kelly, it is so strange how the world works. You donated the ring to support the HOP thinking it would be scrapped, and now it is a treasured gift from my Mom and Dad that I will alway love. Every time I look at it I will think of the elders at the HOP! How wonderful is that?

This will be recorded on the FirstGiving page as an offline donation so I can add a bit more detail to the description. I will send Marilyn a check for 110.00 on 5-15-08.

I love a black hills gold, blue topaz, happy ending. I also love Florida Gold!

More Later…Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. There was also a little charm with 3 tiny diamonds that I did not scrap. That will be in the HOP boutique as well very soon. I am waiting for a gold chain to come in that it fits. This item will be a stunner! I will keep you all posted. Kelly’s FL gold keeps on giving!

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Howllo Fellow Hound and AZ Gold Lovers:

Our dear friend Lynda of Arizona Basset Hound Rescue has sent in a phenomenal package of gold and old watches for the House of Puddles Gold Rush. She sent it in weeks ago, but due to my Shingles malady I was remiss on getting it priced out. As you can see it is rather a large haul that took time to photograph and research at the jewlery store. Yummy!

Lynda, I love this package and I cannot thank you enough. Marilyn will be thrilled with the 48.80 dollars it has brought in. Some of the watches are still in consideration and I will update everyone as soon as I go to a watch shop I was referred to by my jeweler. One of the watches could be from the late 1800s! Very exciting indeed.

Lynda states, “It’s my pleasure to help the old hounds, I foster for Arizona Basset Hound Rescue and have some aged “forever fosters” myself. Marilyn may remember me, I always take part in her Raffles, and I’ve told her before she’s a hero to me!”

Well put Lynda, well put! Without folks like you, Marilyn could not carry on. It take a village. A village I am proud to call my own, and I am proud to have you as my neighbor!

Our FirstGiving page as been updated with your donation. I rounded it up!

More Later……..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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