Howllo Fellow Hound and getting your wing lovers! I just found this story on the internet and I had to share.

She was on death row last week, and the prospects of a call from the governor were slim.

Her only crime was homelessness, and getting in the way of a speeding car.

Nothing in her sad eyes elicited sympathy. It was all, “You ain’t never caught a rabbit, you ain’t no friend of mine.”

When someone finally offered her a way out, she was all ears.

On Friday, Twinkle-Toes, a 3-year-old basset hound, flew into Charleston on a private plane for some surgery and a chance to start anew.

All this is thanks to the Carolina Basset Hound Rescue, a nonprofit group that saves hound dogs from “kill shelters” and finds them new homes.

Susan Baughman, president of the rescue center, said she got a call about Twinkle-Toes, who was found in Hertford County, N.C.

“They were going to gas her, but no one wanted to,” Baughman said. “They couldn’t put her down. So they called us.”

Last year, the Basset Hound Rescue adopted out 137 dogs. Since they started more than a dozen years ago, they’ve helped more than 1,000 hounds find homes.

Baughman, who’s been president of the organization for five years, said she’s been hooked on hounds since she took one on as a foster parent years ago.

“They are very comical dogs, personable and loyal to their person,” Baughman said.

Usually, Carolina Basset Hound Rescue relies on its more than 200 volunteers to connect dogs to foster homes and, eventually, new “people.”

Twinkle-Toes got the royal treatment. Baughman got Ted Holstein, a Bluffton resident and a volunteer, to fly up to North Carolina to fetch Twinkle-Toes.

She took to the flight well, falling asleep before that whole seat-belt speech was finished.

“She definitely earned her wings today,” Holstein said.

Twinkle is scheduled for surgery on her ACL knee injury and a broken pelvis. The Basset Hound Rescue folks said Chad Reynolds, a Summerville vet, gives them discounts or they couldn’t afford to do this all of their money comes from year-round fundraising.

For now, this old hound dog is going to stay on James Island with Pauline Grimball and Sue Ramsey, who have a soft spot for low-to-the-ground dogs.

“You’re going to be fixed up now,” Ramsey told Twinkles after the flight.

And no matter what anyone says about her, she was perfectly quiet and polite, not “cryin’ all the time.”

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Every one say Ahhhhhhhhhh! I love basset hound people. The salt of the earth. (Tears)

More salty tears later…….Love, Cat, chaps and Emma

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