Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and getting cute stuff lovers….Well, I must report I have not opened the House of Puddles cards yet.  I am going to do that Christmas Eve.  I will also blog about it that night.  Howl ever, I did open the Sr. Hounds Abound card and I was cracking up.  It was really tooooooo cute for words so here it is!

Make sure you click on it.  It looks really small here but you need to see it larger.

More loving every detail later (baby in the manger).  Cat, Chaps and Emma

I think I might put this in the holiday “keep” box.  hehehe

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Winter Solstice Lovers….Well, we here in bassethoundtown enjoy the shortest day of the year.  We say the winter solstice is the basset hound of days!

Here is my little winter hound dreaming of sugar plums…..

Ahhhhhhh to be an innocent child again, dreaming of Santa!

More basset hound days later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Sugar Plum

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Howllo fellow basset hound and Sunday Brunch Lovers…Grandma and I had so much fun today.  We went to brunch at our favorite and the most beautiful hotel in Cincinnati, (Hilton Netherland Plaza).  We have gone to brunches here before and I have blogged about it before but this was the Holiday Charles Dickens Brunch!  There was Yorkshire pudding, scotch eggs, figgy pudding, steak and onion pie, and of course much more!  It was soooooooooo good!

Here are the carolers……It was really very magical.

We had never been to the Dickens Brunch.  We will return next year!

Someone was mad as the Dickens at me when I got home!

Poor boy wanted some figgy pudding!

Well, himz and Shimlette got a nice British shortbread cookie I snuck out for them.

All was forgiven!

More Dickens Dreams later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and loving the beach lovers.  Well, this tube is just darlin’!

Basset Hound Hannah und Old English Bulldog Heini am Hundestrand

Oh the simple pleasures in life.  For these 2 is it 1 stick.  Hannah and Heini are wonderful together.

I am pretty sure Hundestrand is in Holland.

More loving Holland hounds later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and O Christmas Tree Lovers!

O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure thou can give me;
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure thou can give me;
How often has the Christmas tree
Afforded me the greatest glee!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Much pleasure thou can give me.

What a beautiful gift and joy to our family, Colby Chaps.

O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy candles shine so brightly!

More loving a good tune and a great hound later…..Cat, Chaps (big daddy) and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Snuggie Lovers…..This is so funny, yesterday I was looking at Emma building her nest and was wondering if they made sunggies for dogs.  It was just a fleeting thought and I forgot all about it.

After she got settled in I snapped this picture.  It was not going to be a part of any blog until her grandma slipped this under my door.

I guess great minds do think alike!  Is that not too funny?

OK, wait a  second, I am going to google Snuggie for dogs.

OMDawg there are snuggies for dogs.

I wonder if I should get her one?

More thinking I should later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Emma lovers….Well, last night our darling, beautiful, little girl gave Grandma and I a big scare.  First off, I will say she is just fine and back to her normal self.

It was so scary because I thought she was bloating which is also known as:
Gastric Torsion.

My Mom and I were in my living room and Emma wandered out from my bedroom.  It looked like she was walking funny but just a stumble.  Then she started retching and nothing was coming up.  Her abdomen was tight and she was swelling up like a basketball.  These are all the beginning signs of bloat.

I grabbed my:
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE FOR GDV [BLOAT]

This is a pdf but I will now add a jpeg….Click on it for the big image and then you can print it.  I keep my inside my kitchen cabinet.

I didn’t even make it the first line, I have read it many times and I told Grandma to grab the harnesses and leashes and I called her doctor.

We rushed her down the street.  Her doctor was concerned but was not as convinced as I was it was gastric torsion.  He was digging deeper into the signs and whisked her off for an x-ray.

Look howl concerned the Mayor is…..

Here we are waiting for the results…..

Her doctor said,

“The good news is, Emma does not have Gastric Torsion but she is bloating from too much food”.

I said, “I just fed her a cup of kibble about an hour ago”.  Well, the doctor explained that this was about 10 times more than a cup.  I was totally baffled and shocked.  I never keep the food at her level, NEVER….that is until I recalled I had stuck a 1/2 bag in my closet when my nephew came over last weekend.  OMDog!  This was all my fault.  For the first time in Emma’s life she was able to eat as much as she wanted.  She stopped when her body told her to vomit.

I cannot believe that I left this bag in a closet that I know Emma can open.  Her Mom Dawn could also open doors.

We could not get out of that doctor’s office fast enough.

When we got home I also snapped this shot.

It is of my chart, cream cheese and GasX.  I gave Emma GasX before we left for the vet.

Thank Dog all is well that ends well.  Our Emma is fine and my hair is only a bit more grey.

I think Chaps has a few more grey hairs in his ears as well.

Grandma was the pillar of strength.

More hoping our experience helps others later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Howlowday blues not lovers…We all know it happens this time of the year.  Some folks suffer from this real state of mind.  I am not sure howl scientific my findings are but there is nothing like a hound to turn the blues around.

Case in point….

Barney from facebook.

hehehe

Happy Howlowdays residents! Only 10 more shopping days left….

More loving hounds later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Howl-low-day cards for the elders at House of Puddles Lovers.  I have not opened any of them yet.  I am laying them under my little Christmas Tree like presents!

The Mayor and Emma will help me open them very soon.

We hope to keep opening them.  Please, if you can, send us a holiday card with one dollar enclosed.  We will match that dollar and send 100% to House of Puddles.

BASSETHOUNDTOWN
P.O. Box 347
Ft. Thomas, KY  41075

More loving the elders later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and searching for Santa Lovers….This morning I was sniffing around facebook and saw this story out of Alaska.  Please enjoy!

Some fishing stories are a little hard to believe, But this guy has pictures to prove his story… Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat. “Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed.

I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I’ve never seen anything quite like it! “Once on-board, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering.”

We headed for Taku Harbor. Once we reached the dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say ‘thank you’ and disappeared into the forest.” After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed but the smallest deer needed a little more help (that’s him in the wheelbarrow).

My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn’t know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. My daughter later told me that the experience was something that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!”

End of post….

Thank you Tom Satre – you are my hero!

More searching for Santa later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. to the person who ordered a Lily book yesterday, I tried to e-mail you but it did not go through.  I am putting the book in the mail today!  YES!

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