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

But a petit basset griffon Vendéen took best in show for the first time last year, as did a bloodhound in 2022.

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."