Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Chaps updates lovers.  We had another acupuncture treatment today.  I must say we are very pleased with the results that Chaps is achieving.  Of course, most of our readers know that Chaps has been diagnosed with hip dysplasia.

This is picture of himz on the bed when we visited Cumberland Falls, KY a year ago.

Also, getting on a bed is a thing way in the past.

But walks by the falls are definitely in order.

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One of my favorite pictures.  Perfect.

This is what you wake up to.  Kinda of PAWSOME!

(absolutely no photoshop used – taken with my Iphone4S.  PAWSOME)

Bring it on Fall, we are ready!

More getting those hips in order later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

PS – Dr. Leick said that he was very encouraged now that storm season is mostly over and getting Chaps pain and stress under control!  YES!

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Pot of Gold Lovers….

I was just sniffing the morning basset hound wires and ran across this delightful picture and story from Dallasnews.com!

Chester, a nine year-old basset hound, relaxes in his driveway as a double rainbow appears in the early evening sky in Arlington, Texas on Sunday, September 16, 2012. (David Woo/Staff Photographer)
“I walked outside of my home Sunday night to take my dog, Chester, for his nightly walk in our neighborhood. When I noticed a great rainbow, I told my wife to get her iPhone and take some photos. She realized the iPhone could not get the entire rainbow.

I decided it was time for a real camera with a very wide lens. I was taking photos with my 14mm lens and an airplane flew past the rainbow. The plane was so small you could barely see it. I switched to my 17-35mm lens and waited for another plane.

The rainbow was changing every minute. I knew I would need something in the foreground and then Chester walked by. After a few treats he decided to lie down with me, since he saw me lying in our driveway trying to get a better angle. Everything lined up as Chester appeared to be looking for the pot of gold.

I live in Arlington and I think the rainbow was over the Cowboys stadium. There was no gold for them today.”

End of Article

Nice…gotta love a Sunday night like that!

More loving the wires later….Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Lily Lovers – Well, this ought to start off your Monday morning in the right direction!

It’s Lily from 17 years ago!  Wow! We had so many nick names for her.  The Paddin’ was another way to say Lily Pad and The Child is just self explanatory.  I always referred to her as The Child.  She loved it!  hehehe

I bought some support dates for the Senior Hounds Abound Calendar and I was looking for a picture of Lily to send in.  It’s fun looking back at the loves of my life.

Have a great Monday everyone!

More loving looking back later….Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Fall in the Air Lovers…

I took this mini clip last year and never posted it.  I am looking forward to taking more clips.

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There is always magic in the fall air!

I love memories.

Unfortunately, I am over my limit on my Iphone.  I have taken so many pictures and videos that I have no more space.  I have been moving them all over to my laptop so I am not going to lose them but I hate deleting stuff like this from my phone.

Dang it!  I should have bought the Iphone with the bigger memory.  What was I thinking?

No biggie.  Live and learn.  I still have all of the pictures I just can’t carry them around with me.

On a side note…here is what happened today!

Grandma babysat the Mayor and fixed him dinner.

Hey we all sit down and enjoy our meals.  Now, let’s enjoy the fall!

More loving the future later….Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

PS – Please don’t forget to vote for Bassethoundtown resident Bumper in the Sr. Hounds Abound Calendar contest!

ENTER THE VOTING BOOTH NOW!

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Rescue Remedy Lovers.  I was just getting ready to read all about Rescue Remedy and take a picture of the bottle and whamooooo, I dropped it on the floor.

The entire thing was lost.  Of course it scared Chaps.  Heck, it scared me.

I was going to put a drop on that half of a cookie cracker and just monitor him.

Now, I will just monitor him without the drop!

Better get on the horn and buy some more….

More Rescue Remedy later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Stress Free Lovers!  You might remember that a few days ago I ordered some additional stress free items for our Mayor.

Well, they came today.

I cannot wait to try them.

1.)  Lavender oil
2.)  Rescue Remedy
3.)  Melatonin

Here is Grandma unpacking the box.

We have tried the Rescue Remedy before but it did not work.  What we did not try was a combination of things.

Right off the bat we rubbed a little lavender oil on his coat (one drop).  He loved it and you can just imagine we d0 as well!

Delightful!

More trying the rest of it later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and 5 years ago lovers.  I really miss posting pictures of our Emma and I looked back 5 years ago today.  Look what I found…

Makes me happy! Sweet breezes of fall coming in around bassethoundtown!

Just an update on our Chaps.  He misses her as much as we do but he gets confused when we say her name.  So we have taken to calling her Angel in conversations.

We still mention her to him but with the caveat, “Emma all gone”.  We don’t want to totally erase her from our conversations while in front of him.

We are so proud of Chaps.  He is doing great.  We are all doing great!

More loving old pictures later…Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Colby Chaps Lovers…

Where does the time go?  Our Colby Chaps is 10 years old today and he still is a young pup in my mind.

But…today he is 10!

Happy birthday sweet darling boy.  We love you in bassethoundtown.  Grandma, Greatgrandma and Big Daddy hope all of your wishes come true…

More loving this boy later….Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Senior Hounds Abound Calendar Contest Lovers….We all know that the residents of bassethoundtown enjoy this contest.  Remember last year?  Emma was a contestant and even came in second winning hundreds of votes.  We were all so proud of her.

Well this year, Bumper Alessandro (of Judy, Bumper and Abby) is running to support SHB and this wonderful fundraising effort. This calendar is the big fundraiser of the year for SHA, a retirement home in Florida for basset hounds.  I think it is so cool that our community has 2 dedicated homes for elder bassets that operate solely for their care.  Just wonderful.

Anyway…on with the show!

Bumpers Mommy wanted to share his story and a few pictures with the residents!

This is Bumpers entry photo…

Bumper was born on February 18, 2002 on a farm in Union, Ky.  We brought our baby home when he was 5 weeks old.  He met Brandy our 11 year old Olde English Sheepdog, who acted like a mother to him.  We decided to add Abby – his real cousin to our household 2 months later.

Bumper has had a fantastic life with us and has a great time playing with his best girl Abby and all the grand kids and grand dogs.

He loves laying in the sun, dinner time, frosty paw treats,

walks in the park, his bed and blanket and waiting for his daddy to come home from work.

He hates trips to the vet for piggy ( toenail clipping), baths, and water in general unless it is in his bowl.  Bumper is our watch dog – always keeping one eye open.

We had a real scare with him the week of his 10th birthday.  His right eye was closed and cloudy and he was rubbing it.  Our vet thinking the worst sent us to the animal eye specialist in Northern Ky who diagnosed him with having an ulcer on his eye – common in dogs with loose droopy skin.  He removed the ulcer and put in a permanent contact lens.   Bumper is bright eyed and bushy tailed again.  Thank dog!!

We have had a wonderful 10 years with our big beautiful – 74 pound boy.

We really hope that he gets a month in the senior calendar.  That would mean so much to all of us.  We love our dogs so much and would appreciate all the votes he can get.  February he will turn 11 an that would be a great month for him to be  featured if we should be so blessed to get a month.

Love, Judy, Mommy to Bumper!

ENTER THE VOTING BOOTH NOW!

Every vote you cast is 1.00.  100% of this money goes to the elders at Senior Hounds Abound.  Also, on this link you can purchase the actual calendars.  Wendie (house mother) will only print what we buy so there will be no extra at the end.  These are great Holiday gifts that will make you smile every day!  So, vote and order away!

GO BUMMPER!

More reminding you vote later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Really Pampered Lovers…Well, we all know who that is.

First off I thought I would update the residents on our fear phobia issues.  To recap, Chaps has had 1.5 acupuncture treatments.  As a previous blog stated he did better in a mild storm event but yesterday we had a big storm event and, well, not very good.  Maybe a 3.24578% improvement.  Not good.  We are looking forward to more acupuncture and have more appointments set up.

But in the mean time we are going to add the following to his phobia treatment.

1.)  Rescue Remedy – we have tried it in the past and it did not work but Dr. Leick said it may help more now as an added extra.

2.)  Lavender oil for a calming effect.  Dr. Leick said we could sprinkle it on him, his Thundershirt, and in his worry bed.

3.) Melatonin – another natural calming aide.  Dr. Leick said he was very OK with trying this on Chaps.

So, I jumped on Amazon and ordered it all today.  I am pretty excited.  I am not going to give up on Chaps and I will keep working until I find some relief for him.  There is no silver bullet.  We just need to keep trying.

BREAKING TWITTER NEWS JUST IN FROM GRANDMA – OH NO!

“Latest model projections show squall line of strong/severe storms approaching #Cincinnati between 11PM-12AM.”

OK, funny in a not so funny way that she would just e-mail this twitter update….

Anyway,

Here is the Mayor this morning as we were leaving for our walk.  I thought I would show you guys the lavender that Grandma and I planted next to his window next to his worry bed.  When we leave we can crack the window and crush a few buds nearest to the window.  As many of you know this is where he lays when we leave.  What a creative idea.

I now pull the Basset Hound Hauling Vehicle to the front so he only has 3 steps to go down.  He is pretty good going up steps, but not down.

I also wanted to capture a regal Chaps next to those beautiful lavender colored Hosta blooms.  They are so pretty.

But then get this…as we walked through the front yard….

Hip Dyspepsia?  What Hip Dyspepsia?

We made our way to another park in our town – Tower Park.

There are Chaps and I under the tree!

As we were helping Chaps up the ramp into the BHV I noticed a truck parked a space over.  No big deal.  I was getting Chaps water and cleaning his eyes with some drops to soothe away any grass particles.  Grandma was cleaning his face, neck and ears with a terry towel to wipe away any dirt.

As the truck was pulling out the man driving rolled down the window and said,

“Wow, he is really pampered, isn’t he?”

Ya think?  If he only knew!

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More loving observations later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma ATB

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