Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and crowds going wild lovers. Well, this is certainly something to go wild over and with that said, many of you may have already heard about this.
Basset Hound rescue: Dozens taken from S. Texas breeder
by Phil Anaya / KENS 5
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Posted on December 27, 2011 at 4:22 PM
Updated yesterday at 5:26 PM
A south Texas dog breeder in business for more than 15 years called for the rescue of 31 Basset Hounds on Tuesday.
One after another, the dogs arrived at the Hill Country Animal League in Boerne. Some were juveniles, some were adults and some were pregnant.
They were all rescued Tuesday from a south Texas breeder who could no longer care for the dogs.
“The gentleman is an elderly gentleman, he’s 80 years old and has diabetes,” said Sandee Bowman of the Animal Welfare Society of Bandera. “His wife has Alzheimer’s, she’s 75. It was time for them to move on in their life.”
Bowman said most of the dogs appeared to be in good health, but some will need help to address health issues such as cherry eye and cataracts.
After receiving medical attention, the Basset Hounds will then be taken all across the country by different rescue groups, who drove hundreds of miles to lend a hand Tuesday.
“We’ll re-home them, making sure they have home checks and getting good love where they can be part of a family,” said Stephen Plyler of the Denton Animal Shelter.
While it should be a happy ending for all the dogs, it’s still a situation that some say should have been prevented.
“We don’t need any more dogs,” Bowman said. “At any given time, you’re going to find Bassets at the animal control (center) that are going to die, so we don’t need to be breeding more.”
According to other reports I have read, basset hound rescue and other rescues have been trying to curtail this breeder for years. I am so glad that most of the hounds are healthy and by all accounts they will all make a full recovery if they are sick.
Bowman is absolutely correct about “We don’t need any more dogs…..so we don’t need to be breeding more”.
So far, I have no idea who this breeder is but I am for now assuming they are not members of the BHCA. They were called Basset World Kennels in Sabinal, TX.
Now for just a quick glance at the BHCA website and you can see there are about 42 member/breeders in Texas alone! WOW!
42 basset hound breeders in TX that belong to the BHCA.
That is a lot of basset hound breeders just at the breed club level in one state. I know for a fact some of these breeders have a huge operation.
In closing, I am just glad that this mill is out of business.
More updates on this later….love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
PS – wonder if any transports will be coming through bassethoundtown? I know that All Bassets Cherished has signed up to take 6 of these darling lovers……
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