In this Tuesday Nov.3, 2009 photo showing volunteer Denise Kiss, offering some affection to some of the dogs at Daphneyland, a basset hound rescue in Acton, Calif. Donations at Daphneyland, the nation's largest basset rescue, are down 40 percent, the rescue is full, volunteers have had to quit to take a second or third job or move out of the area to find work and bills keep going up.
(AP Photo/Richard Vogel)