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She has a new Burmese kitten, Dino, and a basset hound puppy, Poppy.

They got together at a cafe in Istanbul — a dog cafe, to be precise, where they were greeted at the door by a resident basset hound.

They are doppelgangers, dead ringers with basset hound eyes a signature feature.

"Then when Freda died my father himself bought another basset hound, the second Freda, and that was how it all started."

They’re wild, swimming rodents the size of basset hounds with an obsession for building dams.