Dogs At Work And Play

In this Tue. Nov.3,2009 photo showing volunteer Denise Kiss, ringing out Bodie's ears after a bath at Daphneyland, a basset hound rescue in Acton, Calif. The recession made no distinction and hit rescues and shelters in states like California, Texas, Florida, Nevada and Arizona hardest because those were the places where the real estate boom busted the loudest. 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.