snodly

PLEASE try Pat over on the East side of WA. state.(Spokane area...she will travel !) She has 5 fosters right now that are looking for their forever homes. I don't have her contact off the top of my head, but I DO have a contact that does. Please email Tammara, at trbyers@donobi.net , and she will put you in touch with Pat, who is a real jewel. Best of luck !...I've been where you are and believe me, when the right one comes along, he/she will just fall into your lap !!

snodly

BTW, Cindy & Raymond...YES YES YES !! Basset Rescue of Alabama is by FAR the best rescue I have found and would recommend Helen Hocking to anyone !! Might I ask, though, why you decided to go with Ala. instead of GA.?? I'm sure the reasons won't surprise me !!

snodly

OOPS...forgot...Ala. rescue is at www.bhra.org and Helen Hocking, the wonderful adoption coordinator, is at bhraac@hotmail.com .

Cynthia Swearingen

The reason we went with Alabama was, they were a lot more considerate that, at the time, we didn't have a fenced yard!!!!!

I agree--BHRA is a fabulous organization, and all the people working within it are the greatest!!!

[ April 24, 2005, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: Cindy, Raymond, Fredder, & Buford ]

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Anonymous

thankyou dcc11 for the info on the cascadia adoption but we have submitted an application with them on a young dog named sara and we haven't heard anything, we did get them to respond to one email saying they were going through application and we were on the top of the list but haven't heard since, maybe because of the pups they are just real busy but to leave people hanging just doesn't seem fair.
and have contacted eastern wash. basset rescue before and they said we would have to travel over there and that is a 12 hour round trip and my husband isn't up to that. I did like some of thier bassets that they had up for adoption but now they are all adoption pending so, now not sure where we turn. just I will keep looking.

Betsy Iole

I imagine that the Cascadia volunteers are stretched very thin right now, caring for the new litter. It sounds like the pups will require supplementation, if not outright hand-raising, given the malnourished status of their mother. I know it's frustrating not to hear, but I'm sure they're doing as much as they can with limited resources.

It probably wouldn't hurt to contact Cascadia periodically to remind them of your continued interest in adoption. Keep an eye on your local shelters, too. Sometimes, the dogs that need us most don't turn up on our schedules.

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Menzie

BHRG (Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia) is a volunteer organization also. We try to make sure we answer every email and phone call sent to us. BUt all of us are (unpaid!) volunteers only, and have full-time "day jobs" as well - gotta pay for the kibble somehow! For instance, we have two "intake coordinators" - these are the people who get the calls from shelters, good samaritans, and people who want to give up their basset. Cathy - one of our two intake coordinators - says she gets up to 10 voice mail messages and *20* email messages a day, and those are just those messages that pertain *Solely* to trying to take in, transport, or rescue incoming bassets!!!!! I know that things slip through the cracks occasionally. If you dont' get a reply from your local rescue, please try again.

I will tell you that BHRG has a great adoption coordinator, named Lisa W., and she is usually really good about responding to people whent hey send in applications - we are of course interested in finding homes for all of our dogs! We have 17 right now that are being boarded at a local kennel, because who do not have enough foster homes to go around. Some rescues, when their foster homes are full, having to stop taking in new dogs, because they cannot afford the kenneling expense. BHRG has been lucky, so far, that we receive just enough in private donations and from fundraising that we are able to board the new bassets coming in. And even that is with ONLY taking in the dogs from kill shelters! Bassets who are at no-kill humane societies we just pretty much have to leave where they are, and hope that that humane societry finds a good home for them. We simply have no room for them. It's a horrible thing, believe me, to have to turn away a basset in danger of being put to sleep. We hope that at BHRG it will never have to come to that.

Also, as to the fence issue - some rescues just flat will not adopt to someone with no fence. They have made that rule a policy for a reason - usually because they had an adopter in the past with no fence, who swore they would never let the dog run loose, who then did, and the rescued/adopted dog ended up dead on a highway somewhere. I know that is disappointing to the responsible people with no fence who find themselves on the wrong end of that policy - but please try to remember that the group in question made that policy because they were sure it was in the best interests of the bassets they are rescuing.

I can only speak for BHRG on this topic, of course, but we used to turn away "unfenced hoems" routinely. Now, however, we take such applications on a case-by-case basis. Usually, these days, we will adopt to a unfenced home, even an apartment, as long as we are confident that the adoptive family knows and understands that the dog cannot be let outside "to roam", but must stay on leash.

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