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Welcome to our Alumni Page!
For those bassets who were adopted from Bluegrass Basset Rescue before this website was created, we have established a special alumni section! Take a look and see where they are now…..
Isis—formerly Annie—was adopted in 2004. Her Mom writes: I got my girl who was “Annie” in June 2004; Gina was her foster mom. We renamed her “Isis” (she is a goddess after all) and she was ILP’ed in AKC as “Northstar Mythology.” Isis earned an AKC tracking dog title a few months after I got her and has shown in agility in several different venues (UKC, AKC, NADAC, CPE and USDAA). She is nationally ranked in AKC (top five) and will be invited to the 2007 AKC Invitational agility tournament to be held in December in Long Beach, CA; this tournament is for the top five dogs of each breed in the excellent B level of competition (that is AKC’s highest level). I am hoping to be able to attend with her. She is also very close to becoming the first basset to achieve the CPE agility championship (with any luck it will be ours by Labor day). She’s a real hoot to work with and I am so glad to have her!
Charlene Wiglesworth
Rosie was adopted in 2005. She is one of the original Pikeville 6. Her Mom writes: Rosie began her life in Pikeville, KY. She was a "breeder" in a puppymill operated by a former deputy judge-executive of the county. There were over 121 animals at his residence who were suffering from raw spots, worms, sores, broken limbs, mange, covered in feces and malnourished. Pictures taken at the site show cages stacked on top of one another filled with frightened and mistreated animals as well as a decomposing dog in a creek. In early July of 2004 the animals were removed. The local animal shelter was overwhelmed until the district judge allowed some of the animals to be fostered while legal proceedings took place.
BBR was contacted and asked to help. On "July 8, 2004 two volunteers left western Kentucky for a 6 hour drive to Winchester to pick up the hounds...one male and five females, all with cases of sarcoptic mange, covered in sores from insect bites, sore feet from walking in wire crate floors and in shock from all of the commotion they had experienced during the past 48 hours...it was a long drive back that day, carrying precious cargo that smelled so bad you had to drive with the windows down."
After months of legal wrangling her former owner pled guilty, signed away all 121 animals, and walked out of the courtroom with two years probation. The director of the animal shelter, accused of looking the other way due to the political connections of the abuser, lost his job. And that was the beginning of Rosie's new life. (Cont’d on Alumni Page 2]
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