My friend Margaret sent us a small picture once declaring ” spoiled basset hounds on the premises”. How right she was about that. Our pampered pooches don’t quite rule the roost but they definitely play a central role in determining the running of the household.
Decompressing on the journey home today from a busy executive schedule I got to thinking whether their existence was rather too pampered and that we needed to give them a bit tougher existence?
By the time I’d arrived back at the gate, here’s the list of things I had decided to change.
- To stop their daily email subscription to Fred Basset – he is a bad role model giving them all sorts of ideas that they wouldn’t otherwise have. For example, not setting foot off the veranda if there is a speck of rain in the air.
- To migrate them off their gourmet doggie diet to dry biscuits and water.
- To insist no bones, sticks or other gross matter from outside in the house.
- To enrol them back in puppy middle school to sharpen up their obedience skills
- To restrict their snoozing on the Domestic Executive HQ sofa to once a week as a special treat if they have been very very well behaved.
Galvanised with this inspired thinking I felt very determined that no more spoiled bassets was the order of the day. Then something happened.
I opened the gate to drive in and two bassets looked out of Domestic Executive HQ and broke the high speed basset records to greet me. Tails were doing that helicopter movement reserved only for the most exciting things. Fortnum forced a massive basset smile whilst his jowls jumped up and down and made him look a little less than his handsome self. Mason got so excited he couldn’t stop barking and going around in circles. It’s the sort of welcome a girl needs after a tiring day at work.
It seems a bit unfair to change their regime too much and too quickly when they clearly are grateful for all that they get from me. Maybe next week eh!
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In the meantime, here’s some classic basset poses.
Irresistible eh?
Awwwww … what a couple of beautiful babies. 🙂
My hubby’s family used to raise Bassets. He still gets a little soppy when he sees one.
We do have two furry canine children, but they’re not Bassets…
Lol, they must have heard you thinking from far away. I swear they can do that, “quick, show love!”
You were obviously taking too long to dig that hole! x
LOL – quick, show love. That cracked me up. You have so sussed the mind of a basset Claudious!
Marrisa – I bet Denver brings this out in you sometimes eh!
Give my heart to the last pic