Welcome to our home on the web.

Thank you, for assisting us in our mission to save those who have no other hope. Open to the public for adoptions on Saturdays & Sunday's from 11 - 5 (Weekdays by Appointment.) Basset hound education, youth volunteer programs, adoption and belly rubbing opportunities abound. We have over 100 basset hounds for adoption awaiting forever families who reside here at Daphneyland. Our community outreach programs focus on assisting today's youth in the goal of animal education, spay and neuter awareness, pet ownership and awareness responsibility, and other items important to pet lovers. 
 

Rescuers Helper Site - Ha Adolfo

www.rescuershelper.com/A long time supporter of BaRNI and Daphneyland, Ha Adolfo, the Rescuers Helper has aided us for many years.  Well we remember the first time we met this amazing lady - a simple plea on a rescue list to help transport trees to a rescue facility in Acton... and the next thing we knew, Ha had arranged for 40 tree's to be donated for the hounds at Daphneyland.  The hounds rest in the shade areas, and we often thank Ha as we sit and watch a hound enjoying a good scratch against a tree branch

Our TNR days began by a simple email to Ha - from which an amazing network grew. The community needed Milkbones for the Holiday season, and once again Ha stepped up to the plate.>Ha is bringing awareness to our hounds yet again on her web site as she gears up for the Manhattan Beach Pet Appreciation and Adoption Event on September 28, 2008 - We just celebrated Daphneyland's 6th Anniversary - and Ha has been a supporter since inception! We most likely do not say it enough, but Ha - you are one amazing Rescuers Helper! Congratulations on becoming "Official"!   Much love - All the Hounds of Barni at Daphneyland - 6 years and counting, that's a heck of a lot of hounds!

You can visit their site at http://www.rescuershelper.com

Notice of food change -  Healthwise Adult Chicken Meal & Oatmeal Adult

Group socialization and rehabilitation is something that is still fairly unique in the world of Bassets - and one of the things that helps to keep our hounds happy and healthy is a good diet. So many times when a hound arrives in rescue it is emaciated, lacking proper nutrition and many times because of limited or poor food supplies, the basset is labeled as food aggressive, medical case, immune suppressed or a behavorial case, when many times what is actually needed to correct these issues, is a healthy diet.

Due to a recent recipe and manufacturing change in our former food; Canidae - which helped transition over one thousand hounds to a healthy state while they awaited their forever families, we had to go back to food research and determine what commercial canine food on the market today, would work best for the hounds we work with day in and day out. An incredible team helped with this research and the hounds want to thank them! Rick Sevin (who brought this to our attention), Marilyn Bickell, Sandy Gaston, Marina Zackarias and input from Ann Martin. If you are wondering why this would be of great concern to all of us, we do recommend that you read "Food Pets Die For" by Ann Martin, available at NewSage Press presents the New Edition of Food Pets Die for: Shocking Facts there is invaluable information in this book which WILL assist you in your quest for educational information on canine nutrition.

We required a food that would be a regular diet for all walks of basset, and specifically for hounds living in pack socialization, with a blended carb source but minimal ingredients for detoxification from unknown or lesser quality foods. Pure ingredients and a manufacturing process that is tested before manufacturing as well as after on a regular basis. No wheat or corn, and domestic ingredients of high grade. Almost impossible to ask! Our decision is: www.naturapet.com

We specifically will be feeding Healthwise Adult Chicken Meal & Oatmeal Adult and will be recommending that our adoptive families either special order this food at their local pet food store, or transition onto a California Natural product which will be easier to find. Sadly we cannot afford to feed a free food. The vet care budget increases would bury us if we fed a lesser quality food - and our organization feels that good nutrition and rehabilitation is the beginning steps of Rescue.

This food transition will increase our monthly food budget - by more than double. A months supply of food is going to be: $1575.00 This is a VERY reduced rate, and includes a non-profit discount. Please consider sponsoring the hounds health by contributing monthly to the food budget, or by sponsoring an entire month!

For our adoptive families and friends;
The following BaRNI friendly stores carry California Natural on their shelves, check with your local feed store, but these folks are wonderful to us year in and year out, so we really like to see our friends support them!

Club Mutt
Chino, CA
Henco
Sun Valley, CA

Centinela Feed
Santa Monica, CA

Red Barn
Tarzana, Woodland Hills

Pawfect World

Hemmies Hay & Feed
Lancaster
 

Saturday late afternoon - Timmy's Emergency

Saturday late afternoon - Timmy our 13 year old hound suddenly began choking while lazing at the ranch on the porch, with his 90 fellow ranch hounds awaiting forever families.

Quickly, we picked him up, observing pulmonary distress, he was immediately carried to a vehicle, and Carol drove him like a mad woman to the emergency vet hospital. His tongue was blue and he could not breath. Situation grave. We were faced with a poor outlook on recovery, and a huge vet bill on a senior hound. If you sat on the board of directors and had to make a decision to get emergency vet care funds, or euthanize, what would you decide?

Here in So Cal an emergency room appointment is $500.00 no matter what, treatment goes up from there. Our board decided we did not have enough information to make a life ending decision, and that we needed to stabilize him. We authorized blood tests, oxygen, xrays and stabilization. Timmy has been with us for some time and we all love his devil-dog ways!

Timmy is the hound who can grab anything from anywhere. 13 years old with the energy of a 6 month old pup, this senior will keep you on your toes and laughing all the while. Timmy's exploits are famous - he stole his Aunt Tia's cookies, ate her chapstick and had her run screaming from babysitting the ranch shouting "they are wild bassets!!" Timmy plotted and executed stealing his Aunt Jeannie's hamburger by knocking her drink and french fries off the table FAIR SNAG! Timmy daily has us in stitches and is the poster child for an active senior. Timmy is also the hound who tripped Cesar Milan in the video tape "Your New Dog: First Day and Beyond" upon the entry into our main hound yard - Cesar refers to him as "a bus". Our Timmy -

The ER vet gave us every discount they could - and stabilized Timmy and after a weekend on fluids and treatment, Timmy came home this morning, tired and certainly not ready to knock over trash cans and steal hamburgers, but not ready for the rainbow bridge either. He is expected to make a full recovery!!!

The vet bill after discounts is: $1,455.00 which we have charged.

We face these problems every single day in rescue. Can we save this basset, do we have enough money in the vet care fund to say yes?

By saying yes to saving Timmy's life - we now need to bring awareness to our donators that our emergency vet care budget is only $1,500.00, and we have just spent it. We need to replenish this fund immediately so that the next time an emergency happens, we can base our decision on quality of life and recovery, and not on whether there are funds in the account.

Please help us repay Timmy's emergency life-saving vet care. And maybe add a little more to the fund as well - you never know when or where an emergency will happen.

First Giving: Timmy's First Giving Page

Paypal doantions can be made by sending donations to: BarniatDaphneyland@yahoo.com

or mail a check to:
BaRNI; 6221 Shannon Valley Rd, Acton, CA 93510
Your donations are tax deductible.
Thank you for helping us save lives!!

Donations - How - Why

Basset Rescue Network, Inc, is funded from private donations and grants. We cannot continue to do our amazing work with out your help. There are many ways you can donate Firstviging, Paypal, Product Donations, and many other opturnuties that come up through the year please visit our Donation page to find out more.

2008 Corvette Raffle

Buy your tickets for the 2008 Corvette Raffle and your chance to win a 1961 Corvette Roadster. A portion of proceeds of tickets purchaced though our link benifit Basset Rescue Network, Inc.
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BaRNi T-shirts Now Avaiable

BaRNi t-shirts are now available for purchase, as well as many other items. If you would like to purchase items please go to our online store at: www.cafepress.com/barni
 

Good Search

Raise money for BaRNi at no cost to you while you search the web. Good Search is a search engine that donates money to non profit organizations for searching through there site. go to www.goodsearch.com/ And put(Basset Rescue Network - BARNI) into the verify box.
 

Volunteer

We are always looking for volunteers to help our organization. There are a number of opportunities available. If you have time to help us out please send us a note at barniatdaphneyland@yahoo.com or come on up to the ranch on weekends, call for weekday volunteer opportunities - the hounds would LOVE to see you and drool on you! 

Parvo Pups

 Since intake, Lance and Amy have undergone a complete makeover. Both hounds went through our affiliate rescue organization Life 4 Paws, and had extensive vet care at their vets office - Lance was released earlier than Amy, although both became ill with kennel cough almost immediately due to their suppressed immune systems and young age at impound thru the shelter system.
Isolation began for the kids at intake, and parvo treatment requires a post treatment 30 day isolation period, during which time they had to be kept separated.  For those of us here working on them hands on, we of course lost our hearts to the sickly pups.  Isolation ended June 10, 2008 - and they were released into socialization like a herd of buffalo.  Amy has vim and vigor typical of a 6 month old pup - and will be going for a spay and her vaccines this week - Lance, well Lance still needs a few pounds on him before we will be comfortable sending him under anesthesia, so although available for adoption, Lance cannot go home right away.
The total vet bill before medications, food, supplements and spay/neuter etc has tallied $1800.00 (We were given a huge discount over the original estimated cost!), and is expected to run another $800.00 before these two can cuddle up to an adoptive family.  They love each other certainly, but are not bonded so they can be separated for adoption.  Please help us cover the medical bills on these two pups!  They will have a happy ever after story - the promise WILL be kept. Http://www.firstgiving.com/parvopups



 

Parvo Pups Update!!! - Both have been Adopted!!!

The call came in from Baldwin Park Animal Shelter on Thursday May 8, 2008: An owner just walked in two 5 month old puppies whom he requested euthanasia for -however our shelter vet has assessed them and think they are treatable, only rescue can bail them or we have to euthanize.  The clock was ticking for these little souls.
Several problems arose in this situation, the first being that parvo although treatable is very costly and requires extensive vet care as well as the ability to isolate these puppies from all other bassets as parvo is airborne.  Our wonderful vet was on vacation and was not available.  Our HoeDown was scheduled for 2 days away, and there was no way we could bring these puppies to the ranch and put visiting hounds, rescue hounds and personal hounds at risk.  BaRNI's board of directors voted to save these lives and work on fundraising after getting them to safety - and thats what we are doing!

Our volunteer Cherise ran over and got the "slinkies" and headed for the hand off to Carol who drive them on into the vet.  The time clock was ticking and ticking fast.

By networking with our wonderful partner Life 4 Paws, we were able to secure vet care and isolation during the intitial treatment.  The little boy Lance has tested negative now twice, and is currently in isolation but quickly recovering - he is one lucky little boy.  Amy - is much sicker than Lance and is still in the hospital. She will require 30 days of isolation and many vet checkups after her hospital release.Http://www.firstgiving.com/parvopups