Howllow Fellow Basset Hound and Toy Washing Day Haters……Chaps and Emma are sure one of those!

We wash all of the toys about once a month. It is always a bit touchy because the hounds hate not having their toys. Neither kid plays all that much with their toys but they love knowing the toys are laying in piles all over the house. They walk by and smell around them. Lay next to them. Chaps will occasionally nibble on his favorite.

Toy wash day is a cause for concern…Here is Chaps very concerned. The laundry shoot door is open and Grandma is waiting in the basement.

We never put them down the shoot unless they are going right into steaming water in the wash machine. We never use soap. I have a fear that all of the soap will not rinse out and then the kids will get sick.

Chaps is very worried! There goes the monkey toy!

As you can see in the background, Emma is guarding the living room toys.

All’s well that end’s well! All toys were washed, dried and back in piles within a few hours. The balance was restored to their world, (and the monkey smelled fresh)!

More keeping the balance later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Mid-Atlantic Basset Hound Rescue Lovers!
Good News Abounds for TJ the HOUND! All of the residents will be jumping for joy!

Suzanne Fitch of Mid-Atlantic has taken TJ into her rescue! We must find a way to get him up to her in NJ and we are working on the transport as I type. I have been working on TJ’s behalf most of the day off and on along with Kristie, the foster Mommy!

TJ had his neuter surgery and is doing great. He is even doing a little bit of singing for the staff! So here is the good news!

TJ is heart worm negative!

TJ is lyme disease negative!

TJ had a negative fecal test!

TJ get’s picked up by his Foster Mommy in the Morning!

TJ found a place at the top notch Mid-Atlantic Basset Hound Rescue!

TJ hopes to be on a transport this weekend!

TJ says, “Ahrooooooooooo and Thank You!”

Thank goodness he had all of the residents looking out for himz!

More jumping for joy for TJ (and that money we had) later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. I will have a full accounting of what we spent on TJ very soon!

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and PilotsNPaws Lovers! I just love this group and I love following them on all of the social networks. This morning I saw this YouTube video via Twitter and I had to share with my dear readers. It is about 8 minutes long so maybe you can watch it while you are having your lunch!

Maybe we can get TJ on a flight up North! I still have not heard anything about himz. I am going to call the vet shortly and check up on him. His neuter should be over by now!

More updates on TJ soon…..

Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Grind Stone Haters! And now for some useless knowledge about the grindstone!

Keep your nose to the grindstone

Meaning:

Apply yourself conscientiously to your work.

Origin:

There are two rival explanations as to the origin of this phrase. One is that it comes from the supposed habit of millers who checked that the stones used for grinding cereal weren’t overheating by putting their nose to the stone in order to smell any burning. The other is that it comes from the practice of knife grinders when sharpening blades to bend over the stone, or even to lie flat on their fronts, with their faces near the grindstone in order to hold the blades against the stone.

All the evidence is against the miller’s tale. Firstly, the stones used by millers were commonly called millstones, not grindstones. The two terms were sometimes interchanged but the distinction between the two was made at least as early as 1400, when this line was printed in Turnament Totenham: “Ther was gryndulstones in gravy, And mylstones in mawmany.”

Anyway, what ever that means, but I am sure we all get the gist!

Here is Emma keeping her nose to her grindstone!

More applying yourself conscientiously to your work later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Vintage Lily Picture! YES!

I love that I have this picture. Grandma took it in 1998!

Take pictures residents! Take a lot of pictures! You will be so glad!

More glad about pictures later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and TJ Lovers…..

Tomorrow himz is getting snip, sniped! I am having some control issues knowing that he is so far away. I normally have our homeless a lot closer. Normally, I am going back and forth non stop down to my vet. Butt….with TJ, I really don’t know anything.

I guess, I am a bit worried. I know he has good care about 3 hours due south of me. I just want more! I want more.

I guess it will come later…..

We need to start finding this guy a home! I wish I had my normal pictures. You know this is killing me! I know this is killing all of us. I know he is safe but I just am just worried. I normally get to touch and love on our homeless:(

More later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and keeping up with the Swedish Basset Hound Town lovers! Resident Jon Buscall sent me this sweet update!

Finn (SUCH NUCH Bassbarr Fingals Cave) was here this week to visit Tia. Hopefully we’ll have some puppies in end of August/early September.

Here’s Finn looking rather happy with the world!

Here is the proud Momma to be, TIA!

Finn just became the Swedish Champion this week! Good Boy, we can see why!

Here is a link to Jon’s blog! I love keeping up with him and the hounds!

KENNEL BJORKWOOD

More looking forward to pup pictures soon!

Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Beauty Parlor Lovers! Everyone needs a beauty operator, or two, from time to time!

Here is Chaps son with his little girl Jourdan on the left and her friend.

Sometimes a big guy needs to be pampered!

More loving our town later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Day Off Lovers! Yes, most everyone is off today kicking back and enjoying the day. I for one am not crazy about this holiday. I hate the never ending firework displays and noise of the 4th of July season. I call it a season because it seems to last as long as the summer. The only thing good about the bad economy is that there seems to be less fireworks this season but all and all it makes no difference to the Mayor. One crack and he is done for. So, I spent my day off cleaning! I thought I would de-hair the dog bed first! Butt, as you can see…..Our Emma was not giving up her comfort just yet!

So, I decided to vacuum first. This is very interesting. Chaps does not seem to be freaked out at all by the vacuum cleaner. He actually seems like he likes being scared. He stalks towards it, then he backs away. It is very strange.

So, back to the bed. Nope, still occupied…..

So, then I have to bring out the big guns! “TREAT, TREAT!” And we all rush to the kitchen.

I get the bed stripped and go shake the blankets…..I have them (I think tucked in the office) butt……I forgot to shut the gate.

The Mayor is holding his ground…..

So, I go out back and start to water the flowers. I know the Mayor will follow me. In my house cleaning is a very disjointed process. So, we are out side and GUESS WHAT? Joy of all Joys! Near sonic booms! F-16s are flying over.

I look down at Chaps for fear he will have a heart attack and he is just laying there licking his paw. F-16 don’t phase him???????

But this turns him into a psycho fear tinkler…..Notice the wet spot on the edge of my Turkish rug. That was from the fireworks the night before.

It left me pondering sound proof rooms. So, of course I googled it and found this! Build your own sound proof box!

I could turn my dining room into a sound proof box. You can see my dining room right behind Chaps in the vacuum picture!

It shouldn’t be to hard too do!

HOWL TO BUILD A SOUND PROOF BOX!

Makes sense to me! It looks like my dining room table would fit! LOL!

More grandiose schemes later! And for the love of Dog, no fireworks tonight!

Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma!

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and TJ Lovers! This just in from our homeless hound in the Hollers of KY!

Hang on TJ! BHT is here for you!

More Loving TJ later…….Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. The Mayor is freaking out over the fireworks!

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