http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1063301876700
Dear Basset Hound Town residents: I joined this e-card site today. It has to be the best deal on the internet, (besides the Lily Book!) 🙂 for 8.00 a year. This artist is so talented and creative. I will be posting more soon. This card is from Cat, Chaps and Emma to our town members. More Later…Cat, Chaps and Emma
Good day fellow hound lovers. I hope all of your shopping and planning is going great. There is so much to be done that Chaps had to take a stress nap. Nothing stresses out Emma. Don’t forget! Jpegs and cookie suggestions are always welcome! Have a great Thursday. Lastly, you might want to sign up as a subscriber on the home page. Chaps is going send out a special holiday greeting soon. More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Hello fellow hound lovers: I am looking for the perfect cookie recipe. Something yummy. Chaps and Emma are also looking for a perfect hound cookie recipe. Can anyone out in cyber space help us? You can send your recipes via the contact page or leave them here. Please don’t dally. I have to know how much butter to get when I go shopping! LOL! More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Today Basset Hound Town in is morning. Our friend Rickey passed away this weekend and is now with loved ones at the rainbow bridge. His final days were a stylish celebration of love and livin’ large with his two Dads. Rickey visited such places as Palm Springs and Big Sur. He really crammed alot of livin’ into his short time with Bob and Dodson. Rickey passed from complications due to pancreatitis. He is survived by his two basset sisters, Sugar and Lana. God Speed Rickey. Your friends, Cat, Chaps and Emma
Please join me in welcoming our town’s new Deputy Sheriff! His name is Oakley and he lives in Canada. Oakely has been a faithful resident of bassethoundtown since day one. He will be on patrol starting today. Duke, our Sheriff will sleep in a bit longer. We love you Oakley. Thank you for being such a great friend. More Later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
How do dogs bark?
This is the question, Meagan, a fourth grade student asks bassethoundtown. I am stumped! I found the answer to why, but not how.
Anyone out there in cyber space want to help us? Thanks alot! Meagan, Cat, Chapas and Emma!
From the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Health Newsletter
There may be as many theories as to why dogs bark as there are barking dogs. Perhaps the latest entry is that dogs bark because, in evolutionary terms, there are stuck at an adolescent stage of development. Therefore, like other adolescents with whom you might be acquainted, they are loud, obstreperous, repetitious and a general noisy nuisance.
There can be no doubt about the noise. The theory’s authors, biologist Raymond Coppinger and linguist Mark Feinstein, both of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA cite a report that clocked a Cocker Spaniel’s 907 barks in a ten-minute period. Shades of heavy metal! The reasons dogs bark are to sound an alarm, to warn intruders off a marked territory, to express anxiety, to greet owners, and so on. Dogs also bark more than their evolutionary ancestor, the wolf, which seldom barks after it is no longer a pup.
So what’s wrong with the dog as we know and hear it? In their report, which appeared in Smithsonian magazine, these researchers say that the dog as we hear it today is the result of an evolutionary process that has gone somewhat awry. In more scientific terms, the dog’s heterochronic evolutionary mechanism has been slowed down. A heterochronic mechanism can either speed up or slow down the rate at which an animal grows from newborn to adult. If slowed down, the animal will not attain its normal adult form, leaving it, as it were, a perpetual adolescent. That means it will lack some of the full physical and psychologic maturity of a normal adult. The result can be behavior that appears non-functional — like 907 barks in 10 minutes.
According to Coppinger and Feinstein, dogs are heterochronically slowed down and frozen in adolescent life, perpetually mixing bits and pieces of infantile behavior with more mature behavior. So, to paraphrase this report, dogs bark so much because that is what juvenile canids normally do. There you are — they won’t clean up their room and they won’t turn down the noise. And now they have evolutionary theory on their side!
Bassethoundtown would love to thank Fuh and Yuh for donating 10.00 to Kentucky Basset Hound Rescue! The two generous hounds added the amount to a package of cards they bought for their Dad! Hounds, helping hounds. As Chaps would say, “That makes me so happy!” More Later…Cat, Chaps and Emma!
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~fuh-yuh/english.htm
Please welcome Fuh and Yuh to bassethoundtown.com. Fuh and Yuh live in Japan and have their own website. They even have an English version. Fuh and Yuh found bassethoundtown while they were sniffing around in a website in France! Imagine that!!! Hounds can really smell good! Wow, the planet is our backyard! More Later…Cat, Chaps and Emma
Dear fellow hound lovers! Good morning! It is our first snow of the season and it is quite fetching! I will add a picture later today, but I cannot get the kids to put their danty paws in the white stuff quite yet! Thank goodness I have a back porch for other “duties” ! More Later today….Cat, Chaps and Emma
This series of pictures took less than 30 seconds. Emma does not like SNOW! She is currently in her bed, tucked under the covers! More Later…Cat, Chaps and Emma
Dear fellow hound lovers! I am so proud of Chaps. He was the man of the day today. The children were over the moon and so cute. There were 120 kids all sitting on the floor as we entered the school room. This is one heck of a school! Lisa worked her laptop and had the Lily book projected on a huge screen and we talked about how the book was written and designed. I sent the school an e-mail of the talking Chaps discussing how he was looking forward to his visit. The crowd went wild! Lisa, Chaps and I were loudly applauded and a great time was had by all. I am kicking myself for not getting any video or pictures. My word, I need another four hands! Oh, by the way, Chaps slung a slobber that had the entire class bobbing and weaving. I was so proud of him! More Later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma. P.S. I am going to try and attach the e-mail that the class watched of the talking Chaps
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