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A 13-year-old Basset Hound named Ginger has been reunited with her original owner after 10 years apart purely by coincidence, according to the Nashua (New Hampshire) Telegraph. When James Carpentier lost a dog to illness on Christmas Eve, he took the loss hard, swearing it was the last dog he'd ever own. "No more dogs," Carpentier said. "I'm done." But it's difficult for a dog lover to go without a dog for long, and Carpentier soon found himself browsing adoptable dogs on the Humane Society for Greater Nashua website. That's when he saw a familiar face. A Basset Hound on the website looked like the one Carpentier's ex-wife had won custody of in their divorce 10 years ago. The shelter dog ...

After three years and 1,000 miles away from Fort Hood, Texas, Molly the Basset Hound was finally reunited with her family in Prescott Valley, Ariz. thanks to her microchip. According to the Daily Courier, a Prescott Valley Police officer took Molly to the animal control facility after they had noticed she was running loose around the area. An animal-control officer scanned Molly and found a microchip identifying her and her owner, a member of the military serving in Fort Hood, Texas. RELATED: Play our Who's Cutest game. Officials contacted Molly's owner, who was thrilled and shocked to hear that Molly had been found. She told the officer that her dog disappeared in 2009 after she ...

Lisa Hillje regards her dog Lexie not only as a daughter, but as her hero too. According to The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Lexie detected her owner's tumor, allowing Hillje to treat her breast cancer before it spread. Hillje said Lexie, a Basset Hound mix, used her excellent sense of smell to sniff out the tumor. Once Lexie discovered the mass, she began jumping on Hillje's chest and barking at her. Startled by the dog's unusual behavior, the owner put her hand over the area where Lexie was jumping and found a lump. RELATED: Your Pet Could Save Your Life With a history of breast cancer in her family, the 39-year-old went for a mammogram. The procedure revealed that Hillje had cancer, even ...