the Greene Basset Hounds

History Page One

1976 - Suzie (basset  hound) came from a friend in Dayton, Ohio	Already had 2 red  dachshunds at that time - BoBo & Gretchen	Moved to Florida - 1977 - Added black male dachshund - Leo	Being from Ohio, we didn't know about infected mosquitoes causing heartworms here in Florida way back then...
Our entire dachshund family left us for the rainbow bridge	Suzie lasted a little longer as an only dog...	2 years with big fenced yard and no dogs	Grass looked great, but very lonely with no dogs...

Vet gave me his 2 Basset hounds Maggie and Rosie	His vet partner gave me his young basset hound Zack	Found friend for Zack at pound - Josh	Josh and Zack
Josh was still in the clinic when friends came with yet another basset hound for us to take in	Friends from church dumped Little Bitty Maggie off at our house after taking her away from their son	The county dog pound called and offered us Lucy.  She was due to be put to sleep the next day	Buffy came next.  Unknown to us, she was terminally ill when our vets wanted to give her a good ending to her life.  She only lasted 3 weeks with our pack and broke our hearts.

Momma Maggie Sue left for the bridge at 14&1/2...  Rosie stayed with us two more years	Charlie stopped here on his way to the pound and stayed 2 years before boing to the bridge	A close neighbor who knew of our love for bassets "donated" Cleo to our pack	Charlie was along when we attended our first ever Basset Hound Picnic in Tampa
Soon after that picnic, Knee-Hi was added to our gang the first lemon & white basset we had ever seen.	Adopted from Suncoast Basset Rescue, Knee-Hi was a sweet old soul who was a friend to all	A trip to Florida City (south of Miami) let us visit the Miami-Dade Shelter.  Since things had to be according to their policies, we were homeless in Miami one night in order to:	Rescue Lilly who was estimated to be 10 years old  Now we had a partner for Knee-Hi
Lilly had  pneumonia  by the time we got her home from    Miami after  being spayed	She spent 5 days in intensive care at the local vet clinic to recover	Problems started when Lilly began to get well...  She and Cleo disagreed over who would be the dominamt female	Before the problems escalated to intolerable,we started  taking pairs of our bassets to local area nursing homes and assisted living facilities

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