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April 22, 2008

Waddling along the boardwalk

If you love Basset hounds -- and how could you not? -- you might want to head north to the other Ocean City (New Jersey) for the annual BoardWaddle this weekend.

Hundreds of Basset Hounds and their owners will be walking through Ocean City and along the boardwalk to raise money for homeless bassets in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

The BoardWaddle, modeled after a similar even in Michigan, was started by Tri State Basset Hound Rescue in 1999. Since then there have been eight successful BoardWaddles, and thousands of bassets from 35 states, Canada and Europe have taken part.

The weekend features Basset Hound olympics and an auction on Friday, and the "Doo Dah Pawrade" on Saturday. For more information, click here.

(AP Photo)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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