My big, sweet Jessie, applying maximum skin contact to the cool tile, while expending minimum energy, moving just one eye to follow me around the room. Her nickname is "Speed Bump", because she is often in the middle of the path we want to take and we have to slowly negotiate our way over her.
Jessie is the second-most cuddly dog in the whole world, second only to her half-sister, Becca, my wife's Bloodhound. In the mornings, I have her follow me downstairs and feed her separately from the other three, because she will otherwise become too raucous and rambunctious and cause a big commotion. After she's finished eating, she'll stand next to me while I'm eating and repeatedly push the underside of my forearm with her nose, until I pet her.
Bloodhounds needing to be rescued in the eastern half of the country are having a tough time, currently, after the closing of two regional rescues, and there is only one serving everywhere east of the Mississippi. They are losing nice, purebred Bloodhounds to euthanasia at an average of almost two per week. So sad, but we did our part to help out here on the west coast. Jessie has proven that one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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It's not true that all Bloodhounds can do Search and Rescue, but that's what they were bred to do and most can be taught. At age 6, after 13 months of training, Jessie finally takes and passes her first certification test.
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This is what Jessie looked like when we got her, as a five-year-old rescue. She had lived with a Great Dane that almost died because it was so thin. Can you guess what the problem was? The patches in her fur are there because they had to shave her in spots, due to the numerous ticks she had. She required a double treatment, she had so many of them. Fortunately, the person who handles Bloodhound rescue in Southern California is the wife of a vet and she manages his office, so Jessie received excellent treatment.
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