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DNATIONAL D D PET D MONTH D D- April D 2nd D to DMay D2nd D TOP TEN TIPS FOR RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D 1. Think carefully before getting a pet and learn about its special requirements 2. Ensure your pet is sociable and well trained 3. Provide a nutritious and well balanced diet 4. Provide suitable housing and bedding 5. Clean up after your pet and worm it regularly 6. Protect against disease. Your vet can provide you with advice

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An annual basset tradition Rescue group hits the road with yearly waddle through town

annual picnic. This year we will be frolicking at the Orion Oaks Bark Park. It’s a basset hounds only pawty! All the bassets are taken off leashes and have the time of their lives running, playing, chasing, sniffing, stealing food and playing games for prizes. We have a costume contest, a pet masseuse, a pet psychic and lots of vendors. This year they will have acres and acres to enjoy! On Sunday we will be at Canterbury Village for our Waddle! The parade will be led by a beautiful horse-drawn carriage carrying our Waddle King and Queen Basset Hounds for 2011. They will be followed by literally hundreds of

basset hounds and their people. Also new this year is a personal “Float” contest! Owners are designing floats with wagons, etc. and competing for top prize. On Sunday there will also be food and refreshments available, a DJ, vendors, games for the dogs and other fun stuff! This is a fundraiser ... it is our lifeline! Owners are asked to collect pledges for each “block” their bassets completes in the Waddle (like a walk-athon). Pledges are collected the day of the event and there are very nice prizes and trophies for the top Pledge Getters. We need this Waddle Weekend to be a huge success. Without it, we can’t continue to save, vet and re-home needy basset hounds here in Michigan. Veterinary costs are our main concern. On average, they range anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 per month. Currently, we have a 1-year-old basset who has been in the hospital going on three weeks. Her vet bill is approaching $3,000! She was, obviously, a very sick girl, but we couldn’t give up on her. The good news is she is improving! Without the Waddle, we couldn’t help dogs like her. Every dog that comes to us goes into a Foster Home (we always need foster homes), to a vet (all are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, Heart Worm tested/treated prior to adoption) and eventually into a new Forever Home. Please visit our web site at michiganbassetrescue.org or call 248-6231698 for more information. ❏ Melissa Fenchel is president of Michigan Basset Rescue.

taking Code Red to Chelsea, Mich. for a four-day horse clinic in April. I’ve had cancer twice and being around horses helped me regain strength and confidence. Working with horses is also stress-reducing. It’s a completely different world than the office. I’m so lucky to have Code Red in my life and be healthy enough to spend time with him. I hope he knows how much I love him. I also am fortunate to have two rescued retired racing Greyhounds, Vegas and Savannah; and two rabbits, Sonoma and Mr. Peepers, adopted from the Michigan Rabbit Rescue (MRR). I host Greyhound rescue adoption events for the Greythounds of Eastern Michigan (GEM) at the Bloomfield Hills PetCo once a month and volunteer for

the MRR. My volunteer role with the MRR is to socialize the foster rabbits by petting and holding them at the adoption events. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. The Greyhounds go with me to the horse farm. Code Red likes dogs. They run around in a large fenced-in area next to the horse pasture ... the Greyhounds, rabbits ... I love them all; they are wonderful pets and companions! ❏ Dana Mullarkey is the volunteer event coordinator for Greythounds of Eastern Michigan. She provides volunteer adoption event support for Michigan Rabbit Rescue, and is a member of the Purdue University Calumet Dunes Equine Center Board of Directors.

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igns of spring: Swallows come back to Capistrano; buzzards come back to Hinkley, Ohio; and Hush Puppies hit the road to Canterbury Village ... not Birmingham. Once again the Basset Hounds will hit the road for the Great American Basset Waddle For Rescue on Sunday, May 15, 2011. The Waddle, hosted by Michigan Basset Rescue, has a new home this year. The annual fund-raiser for Michigan Basset Rescue will be held at Canterbury Village in Lake Orion. This non-profit organization has rescued nearly 3,000 homeless basset hounds in the past 18 years. The event began in 1993 with 12 basset hounds waddling up Woodward Avenue. Last year there were 400! Each year it grows, and this May 15 the rescue organization expects more than 500 short-legged, long-eared, vertically-challenged droolyhounds to strut their stuff in support of their less fortunate doggy brothers and sisters. Bassets, many of them having been rescued themselves, will converge on Lake Orion from 45 states, six Canadian provinces and Ireland. The event, which has been called the “Basset Hound Dream Cruise,” has been featured in LIFE Magazine; and Animal Planet’s “Breed All About It” presents a segment on the Waddle in its program on basset hounds. The Waddle, a spectacular event and an incredible sight, is enjoyed by everyone, including the hounds. Following the parade, the “pooped pups” will “hang out” in the Park at Canterbury Village to sniff each other, have a cool

The 18th annual Great American Basset Waddle, a fund-raising event held by Michigan Basset Rescue, will be held this year at Canterbury Village in Lake Orion. The event had been held the previous 17 years in Birmingham.

drink and greet their many friends and fans. This year’s event will be the 18th annual Great American Basset Waddle. It was held the past 17 years in Birmingham as part of the Celebrate Birmingham Parade. The event is actually a three-day affair. It starts on Friday, May 13 at the Michigan Basset Rescue’s headquarters hotel, the Quality Inn in Troy. There we welcome out-of-towners with a dinner and auction on Friday night. The hotel is nearly filled with basset hounds and their people. On Saturday, May 14, we have our

Rescue dog helps woman keep safe while riding horses By Dana Mullarkey staff writer

adopted Code Red from a horse rescue in October 2009. The horse rescue was going out of business so I relocated him to a private farm in Ortonville, Mich. Code Red is big and can intimidate me sometimes. I’ve heard, read, and watched a lot about natural horsemanship and use those types of exercises with him. He responds very well. When I’m working with him a lot on the

Greyhounds Vegas and Savannah, and rabbits Sonoma and Mr. Peepers — all four rescued animals — are cherished by Dana Mullarkey as “wonderful pets and companions.”

ground, he really listens to me and keeps me safe on the ground and when riding. We’ve had some trailering challenges, but are overcoming those. I’m

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Sandi and Sadie

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loving homes. We also assisted animal control in the placement of five Morgan horses after learning they had been The Michigan Horse Welfare locked in filthy stalls for seven years. Coalition is a group of concerned peoOne of these horses, “Mystery,” a gorple from across Michigan dedicated to geous mare who needed helping horse owners the most TLC after the struggling to provide for horses’ removal, is now their animals and saving ready for her forever as many as possible from home. See Mystery’s abuse, abandonment and adoption information and neglect. photo on page 32. To date, the MHWC’s The success of our most successful program efforts to help horses in is our Hay Bank, the Last spring, Michigan Horse need depends entirely on mission of which is to Welfare Coalition (MHWC) donations. Donations are provide owners facing assisted Livingston County tax-deductible and can financial hardship, and be made at our website occasionally law enforce- Animal Control in the at michiganhorsewelfarement and rescue opera- removal of eight abandoned horses from coalition.org, or by sendtions, with temporary hay and feed assistance, deplorable conditions. All of ing a check to: The the horses were rehabilitat- Michigan Horse Welfare and to assist them in Coalition; 5859 W. planning for the future. ed and placed in loving Saginaw Hwy., No. 273; So far, the MHWC’s Hay homes. Lansing, Mich. 48917-2460. For more Bank has helped to feed 52 horses! information, visit our website or call Last spring, the MHWC assisted 517-321-3683. ❏ Livingston County Animal Control in Jodi Louth is the Hay Bank coordithe removal of eight abandoned horses nator for the Michigan Horse Welfare from deplorable conditions. All of the Coalition. horses were rehabilitated and placed in

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