Rico and Barry at Home in Tallahassee, Florida!

Here is a great photo of Rico and Barry with their new dad, Ronald Lee of Tallahassee, Florida! They are obviously in hog heaven in their new home with their new proud papa! Thanks so much for giving these great hounds a wonderful forever home!

The BHRA Dog Food Fund

With the high number of dogs we have in Rescue at any given time, the cost of dog food can be overwhelming! Anyone with multiple dogs in their home knows that the cost to feed them really adds up quickly! In order to help our foster families feed all of these dogs, we started a program to raise money for food. The way the program works is we will buy gift cards with the donated funds that will be mailed to our foster homes so that they can purchase dog food. We will start with families fostering multiple dogs and if the funds are available, we will pass money along to other families on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to donate funds to help us buy dog food, you may visit our website at www.bhra.org or click here! Thank you for all you do for BHRA!

Callie (aka Kahlua) Finds a Wonderful Forever Home!

It has been just 4 weeks since Kahlua aka Callie came into our home. We wanted to let the BHRA know that she is doing just fine and appears to be bonding with Mr. Fred. Although at times, he is overwhelmed by her energy.

Callie is coming up on eight months old and still is full of puppy energy. She is extremely curious about everything in the house and loves to run from the grassy area of the back yard down into the ivy covered area known as the dismal abyss. She has a pillow in the den and has staked out the sofa as her private sleeping area.

She gets along fairly well with Mr. Fred ( a BHRA alum from 2001). They both get upset with dogs in the neighborhood who get out and will let you know if something is not to their liking.

Callie is a very loving affectionate puppy who loves to be petted on and cuddled. She weighs about 40 lbs and stands about 14" at the shoulder. Her face and eyes are just beautiful and goodness those long long legs. We have come to the conclusion that while momma may have been a basset, we think daddy was a german shepard/ lab mix. In any regard, Callie is growing into a wonderful puppy dog.

Mr. Fred has taught her about afternoon walks and early morning chicken strips... mmmmm good.

Pat and our son David and I feel that she is learning and responds well to basic commands... most of the time. We have had some housebreaking "accidents" but we seem to be on the right track and she does respond to "liver treats" with praise when she conducts herself in a ladylike manner.

Well, I will close for now, we just wanted to let our friends at BHRA know how things were going with our new little baby.

Ben, Pat & David Brehmer & Mr. Fred (the wonder dog)

BarkIt! Market Is This Saturday!

BarkIt! Market will be held Saturday, September 19th on the Green at Ross Bridge Welcome Center near the Renaissance Ross Bridge Hotel and Spa. The event will take place from 8:00a.m. until noon! Come out and support BHRA! We'd love to see you there!!

Don't forget to visit our Calendar of Events on our website at www.bhra.org to keep up with everything going on with BHRA!

Pellee Nelson...A SuperStar!

We have a BHRA celebrity! Our sweet little Pellee, who was adopted in August of 2009 by the Nelson Family of Hixon, Tennessee was recently featured in a newspaper article! If click on the image here you can see her feature. Congratulations Miss Pellee!!

Mark Your Calendars!

New Events Coming Soon for BHRA!

We have several events coming up! We are excited to show off the hounds we have for adoption, look for new foster homes and hopefully find some great dogs loving forever homes! This is what we have coming up:

1. Bark for a Park Outdoor Festival - October 3,2009. 10:00 - 3:00 pm. We will have an adoption day and vendor tent to sell some of our stuff and participate in this great effort for a Dog Park. City of Homewood location.

2. Ocktoberfest, October 31, 2009 Moody Al - This is an annual event that Dr. Nelson of Crossroads invited us to attend. There will be an Adoption Day and vendor tent to sell some of our stuff. We will also be participating in a great community shindig. Hours to be announced later

3. We will be also at the last Barkit Market at Ross Bridge! More info coming soon!

Please come out and support BHRA!!

BHRA Store!

I have something really cool to share with you today and a great way to support BHRA! Did you know we have a store on our website? Well we do and we'd love for you to stop and buy some of our products! 100% of the proceeds go directly to support the hounds of BHRA! As the store becomes more active, we hope to add items to it.

We are currently offering BHRA T-Shirts, BHRA Bumper Stickers and Basset Hound Dish Towels.

Our very popular t-shirts come in red, blue and grey. We have a few small and medium sizes left in the pink.

Our Bumper Stickers are a GREAT way to show your support for BHRA and to tell everyone about us everywhere you go! One day I was in the Starbuck's drive through waiting for my Venti Mocha Frappachino Light, when the lady behind me honked her horn and tried to talk to me about Bassets. It was really funny because I did not understand much of what she was trying to tell me...but my bumper sticker definitely caught her attention!

These Basset Hound Hand Towels are made by a neighbor of one of our Trustees and they are just about the cutest things around! Talk about an exclusive...you can't get these bad boys anyplace but BHRA!

If you would like to support BHRA by shopping in our store, please visit our website at http://www.bhra.org/ and click on the BHRA Store link OR just click here to go straight to the store www.bhra.org/bhra_store.htm

From all of us at BHRA...thank you so very much for your support!