An Incredible Journey

As you all know, the basset rescue thing is near and dear to my heart. While we mainly help hounds in the New England states, there are times when we reach out to other regions when their overloaded shelters are at a breaking point. To put it bluntly -- their days are numbered without our help. That said, we're taking three hounds that were rescued from a terrible situation of neglect in Arkansas. Beginning Friday, these three, along with three others, will begin an amazing journey, all thanks to volunteers. What happens is this: there's a "travel coordinator" in AR who has set up 22 legs (!!) of the dogs' journey. She creates a database online and calls on volunteers who email and call their friends and other hound dog lovers in the U.S. to sign up for a leg of the journey. Three of the dogs will split off in Ohio and head to NJ; our three "bassengers" will continue on up to our director's home in NH. They will arrive Sunday night. It's pretty amazing to see this intricate plan laid out, and the generosity of so many volunteers. At each meeting point of the "bassenger" trade-off, the volunteers call the travel coordinator to check in, update her on their departure time, any issues, etc. to make sure everything stays on track and the dogs are safe. You can view the travel itinerary by clicking here. The whole thing is amazing to me. Like the underground railroad in a way -- helping these needy hounds escape to a better life. I just wanted to share it to give you an idea of some of what we do!

On another note, we're welcoming our own "bassenger" from a different transport coming in Sunday night from Tennessee. His name is Jack and he's a basset-border collix mix. Isn't he cute?!