Animal Success Stories

We welcome updates on the hounds we have placed... if you have a story to tell, please send it to Sally Mitchell, sally@ggbassetrescue.org, with photos if possible, and we'll feature it here.


Please visit our Success Stories page to read all of our stories!
Abby

Abigail Mary (formerly Abby) adopted April 25th, 2013 and Oscar, adopted October 2006 This past spring my husband Tony and I lost our beloved 16 year old basset hound, Cadie. Her death was devastating. Although we have another basset hound, Oscar, that we adopted from GGBR in October of 2006, Cadie had such a larger than life personality that the house felt empty. Oscar was not doing well as an only dog, and so we started looking for a second dog much sooner than expected. Right away, Tony fell in love with Abby's picture. She was one of three dogs we submitted applications for. After learning more about the personalities of the other two dogs, we decided they weren't a good fit, but Abby sounded like the dog we were looking for. After a number of weeks, we finally were able to meet her and bring her home. She turned out to be just the right dog for our household. It is hard to believe that she ended up in foster care because her previous owner was tired of having dogs, and was going to put all his dogs to sleep. Fortunately, someone overheard him complaining and rescued the dogs! Thank you for all the work you do, Kathleen Cahill Oh, in the photo of the two dogs, Abigail and Oscar are relaxing after socializing at the dog park.