We all like to have a moan about facebook and Mummy tells me it was so much better in the "old days". She says 5 years ago there were loads of games, not just Zynga games that you have to either have a bazillion friends or buy stuff to level up. Decent games. And there were these apps like Top 5 where you pick your top 5 of stuff, like foodies and bands and biscuits and stuff. And groups were much easier to use. But anyway, me wasn't here then so me don't know about all that. All me knows about is what happened after me joined. So here is my story.
I came to live with my family in January 2011. Mummy made me a facebook because Spicy the cat had been using hers for years (mind you only to send Mummy gifts on Zoo World but don't tell her I told you that) and Mummy said it was only fair for me to have one too. Only Spicy the cat didn't actually have any cat friends, just human friends. Mummy didn't even know this animal world existed on facebook. So her made me a facebook and me started using it but me didn't have many friends, them were just Mummy's friends and family. And them mostly don't want to talk to doggies about doggy stuff so me was pretty lonely on my facebook.
So me thought me can't be the only doggy on facebook, there must be other humans out there crazy enough to make a facebook for their pets so me typed basset into the search box and there was hundreds...thousands of other bassets! So me made a couple of friend requests. Not many, me was a little bit shy and me not sure how this whole animals on facebook thing works. Maybe them would hate me?
So me did get my friend requests accepted. Me remembers exactly who my very first animal facebook friend was. His name was Beau. Him is not on facebook anymore, that is a real shame cos him was very funny and did tell the most hilarious stories about the adventures he got up to with his daddy.
Him did put a picture of me on his wall, it did say this is my new friend Bessie Basset Morgan, she a red hot mama! And me did get lots of friend requests after that, me think them did believe me must be a red hot mama. Not just bassets, all kinds of doggies. One of them friend requests was from a staffrador called George who became one of the most important peoples in my life...but more on that later...
One day one of my basset friends in Italy did put a link to a youtube video of lots of bassets on a walk. Me did watch this video and me did notice this walk was quite near me so me did go on the website of the man what put the video on and him does organise a group of bassets that go for a walk once a month together in South West England. Mummy did email him and ask him if we could come on one of their walks and their next walk was the very next weekend. So we did go on this walk and we had the bestest time ever. This was the first time my humans had ever seen another basset in the flesh (apart from me of course). Me did have such a lovely time running with the pack that after we got home Mummy said to Daddy "do you think Bessie needs another basset?" And her thought Daddy would tell her to shut up but him said that him had been thinking that too.
So Mummy went on the RSPCA website where me did live before but there was no bassets. And her went on Dogs Trust but there was no bassets. And her went on Many Tears and there was 5 bassets! Them had all been seized from the same puppy farm. They was all girls. Two of them was in a foster home together in Cardiff, one of them was in another foster home and her was a teeny puppy. One of them was in a foster home in Liverpool and the last one, with the saddest face, was at the rescue centre. Mummy and Daddy did feel very sorry for the one at the centre because all the rest were with families and she was on her own. So Mummy filled in an application form for her.
This was on the Monday. On Tuesday Mummy phoned to see if they had the form but it hadn't gone through so her did another one. Then they did phone and say someone had to come and inspect our house first. So on Thursday a lady did come to the house. Her walked into the kitchen, peered into the garden and said yes that's fine, I'll let them know. Then the lady from Many Tears, Nicky, did phone and say the doggy was being spayed on Friday and we could come and see her on Sunday. So we did wait and we was very impatiently waiting cos we was all desperate to meet my new sister. Then on Saturday morning them phoned and said you can come today if you want. Did we want?! We was in that car and on the motorway before you could blink.
When we got to Many Tears we was led to the exercise area and the man said him would go and get the doggy. After a couple minutes we did see him coming back. Him was carrying the doggy and as he was passing the kennels we could see her little sad face looking at us. Mummy was in love with that doggy before she even made it past the first kennel. Then him brought her to us and put her down on the ground next to me. Him said she didn't know how to walk on a lead so him had to carry her. Me lay down and her lay down with her head on my back and Mummy and Daddy bent down and cuddled us and the man said "What does you think?" and Mummy said "We're taking her".
Then Mummy went into the office to fill the forms in and Daddy and the minihumans gave us cuddles. And when Mummy came back she had a tag that said "Carly" on it and she went to put the collar on that we had brought for Carly but it was a million times too big cos Carly was so thin and tiny. So her said they could keep the collar for another doggy and we would stop at Pets at Home on the way home and get a new one.
Mummy had to carry Carly to the car cos she would not walk. Me and Carly did snuggle up in the boot together. I loved having a new sister, it is nice to be spoiled by your humans but when you has to be on your own, like in the boot of the car or in the kitchen when the humans have to go out, it is nice to have some company. Carly did stink bad but me not mind, her was very sweet and shy.
When we got to Pets at Home Mummy had to carry Carly round the shop and everybody was stopping to admire us and talk to us, I do like being part of this family what gets admired. We bought Carly a new small collar and a lead and a orthopaedic bed and a bowl. Then we come home and begun our new life together.
Carly was a fast learner. When her first arrived she could walk on her own but if you put a lead on her she just stood still and wouldn't budge. Her hated the feel of grass under her feet. Her couldn't climb even one step. After a week me had taught her all these things and she was running round with me and jumping on the furniture and running up and down the stairs. Now her has her own facebook and she has a lovely handsome boyfriend called Tiger.
Anyway back to my story about how facebook did good things for me. After we got Carly me was looking on Facebook and we seen a page for the Basset Club of Wales. It said them was having a show and it was the next weekend and was being held at the same community centre where my minihumans went to youth club every week. So me did ask if me and Carly could come to the show and watch and the lady there, Aunty Tina, said we could. So we went along and watched and we had a nice time and Aunty Tina and Aunty Julie and everybody was very nice and Aunty Tina asked Mummy if she would like to join the club and Mummy said yes please. So we did join the club and Mummy went on the committee and at the next committee meeting Mummy got there early and was talking to a lady called Marion who is one of the reps for Basset Hound Welfare and her was telling Mummy all about it and Mummy thought her would like to do something for Basset Hound Welfare too so when her got home her did send an email to the lady what runs it to tell her she would like to help.
Well them emailed back and said Mummy could be South Wales Rep if she did like and Mummy said yes she did like so her did become South Wales Rep. And people did start calling. The first few times people phoned Mummy did get other reps to help her cos her was new but the first rehoming job she did all on her own was a lady who wanted to rehome a basset called Lotty. Mummy said she would take Lotty cos she had people on her list who was interested. So Lotty did come to our house. Her was beautiful. Mummy and Katie, especially Katie, did just fall in love with her. But Mummy said no we can't keep her, we is just fostering her so she phoned the first person on her list and him said him was very interested, him would phone back. But him never did. So her phoned the second person on her list and them said they wasn't looking for a basset anymore. So her phoned the third person on her list and them said them wanted a boy. So her stayed for a bit longer.
Lotty has been here now for 5 months. Me not think her ever going anywhere.
Me is glad to report that Mummy has done other rehomings since and none of them are still here. Her did do them all properly and send them to new homes. Her has rehomed Odie, Henry, Hector, Missy and Bertie. When we rehomed Missy and Bertie Mummy and me took them to one of the other Basset Welfare Reps, her did introduce me to him as her PA! That day we did go and have tea and cake with one of my bestest friends what I met on facebook, Jefferson Basset. That was a good day. And Jefferson's Mummy and Nanny have been to our house for lunch too!
In the meantime on facebook my friend George did host a party at the bacon theatre and him introduced me to lots of new people. And me joined a few groups and met new peoples and George made a group called George's Piano Bar. We invited all our special friends to join and on the opening night me did meet the love of my life! His name is Blue and me loves him very very much. Him did ask me to marry him and me did say yes. We was going to be married on the 12th May but a very terrible sad thing happened and him was taken by the angels to rainbow bridge on the 5th May, exactly one week before the wedding. I does remember the moment MummyLouise did tell me. We was sat on the settee, Mummy and Daddy was watching Casualty and me was talking to my friend Giz about wedding dresses when me did get a message from MummyLouise with the shocking news. We did cry lots that night, me and Mummy, and for a long time after and we still does sometimes. We was so very sad and for MummyLouise and DaddyKeith and Inca.
My friends was amazing and them did give me so much support. Me not going to name them all cos them knows who them are, the special people who make my life worth living.
Recently George had an idea to host an auction, we chose our favourite charities; Little Angels Staffie Rescue where George's baby brother Winston came from and Basset Hound Welfare. We thought we might make £200 but we was amazed how everybody rallied round to help. We did make £1100 in the end! It was the most amazing thing. George and his Humum and Hudad worked so hard and they are the loveliest people ever ever ever.
So that is the story about how thanks to facebook me did go from being just me, Bessie on my own to having 2 basset sisters in my house with me and 2044 friends in my facebook and being proud to call some of them my brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles and cousins. Mr Zuckerbugger don't mess fb up anymore. You don't know how important this place is to some of us.
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