I want to update the residents on our Emma:(

May 14th, 2012 - 8:08 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Emma Lovers…Well, we are all one of those!

Sigh…our Emma….sigh….

Herz is not doing too well. I wanted to wait a bit before I did this update.  Everyday you hope that things will turn around.  Believe us, we are still hopeful!

Her liver is in decline and her vet said that her liver disease is “progressing” after doing another blood test.

Grandma and I knew she was not doing well when she started to refuse food.  Not entirely, but she is entirely off of dog food.  She just won’t eat it so, she is getting whatever she will eat which surprising is basically Doritos.

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She turns her nose up at most everything else. She will take a few bites of turkey, pea soup, and tonight she had some chicken.  Not much of anything.

Her patty is now distended and has some fluid in it.

She really enjoys sitting in the sun.

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She is passing a bit of blood in her urine.

Her gums are slightly jaundice.

She now likes 3 blankets instead of one but is sleeping good.

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She is obsessed with her grandma and can’t get enough of her.

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Interestingly, she loves taking short walks and lays by the front door until I take her out.

She has never done that before.  It seems as if someone is calling her….

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Tomorrow and everyday we are walking as much as she wants and as many times as she wants.

Everything is off of our calendars.  Nothing but Emma, which is not very different than any other time but for example we cancelled all appointments this week.

She is not in pain at all.  We won’t let that happen.

More updates later…Love Cat, Chaps and Emma

PS – I still have not turned over April on the Sr. Hounds Abound Calendar yet.

Probably never will.

PPS – Chaps is confused but loving the change in diet.

PPPS – We are crushed.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all residents of bassethoundtown! YES!

May 13th, 2012 - 10:10 am KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Mother’s Day Lovers….

Wow what would we do without Moms?

They carry us when we can’t make it….

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They keep us warm and safe….

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Moms even dream our dreams with us.

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Ever present with arms open wide.

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Have a wonderful Mother’s Day.

More Loving Moms Later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Wow, where have I been?

May 10th, 2012 - 8:08 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and where have I been lovers?….

Gosh, I have not been around in our town for a few days.  I have kind of been down in the dumps because Emma is not feeling well.  She is not eating that good and eating is what she lives for.  I will keep everyone posted. I know howl much everyone loves her.

Our girl was up and ready to deliver the fliers for the next Basset Hound Town Walking Club event!  She had a great time getting out.

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We dropped a batch of fliers off at Judy’s home!  She is the co-hostess for the 4th walking event!  Here is the flier…

Click the flier so you can read it.

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If you want, you can print it off and post anywhere you want.  We would love to have all of the hounds in the Northern KY, Cincinnati area join us.

After we got home our BFF Janie came over with Pizza!  That will make anyone feel better.  Look at our Emma wagging her tail!  She loves her Aunt Janie!

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More walks and pizza later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Devoted a life to art – Red Bank’s Evelyn Leavens, 87, is still a work in progress

May 7th, 2012 - 5:05 am KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Evelyn Leavens Lovers.  Well, we here in Bassethoundtown have been fans of Evelyn’s for over a decade.  I first learned of Evelyn, and her work as a children’s book author back in 1995 or 1996ish.  I read an article in the BUGLER MAGAZINE.  I contacted her via a written letter.  I purchased a few pieces of her art.  We have been friends ever since. I was fascinated that she had written and illustrated a children’s book in the year I was born.  I had to know more.  Now, we e-mail almost every day.

A few days ago she had an art show.  Here is an article about it….enjoy…..Evelyn Leavens’ “Self Portrait.’’Evelyn Leavens’ “Self Portrait.’’ / Courtesy of the artist

Written by
Marie Maber

LINEAR CONFIGURATIONS: NEW AND UNKNOWN WORKS BY EVELYN LEAVENS

When: 1 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and by appointment through May 17
Where: McKay Imaging Studio and Gallery, 12 Monmouth St., No. 202, Red Bank, New Jersey.

Info: 732-842-2272At 87 years old, Red Bank artist Evelyn Leavens revels in knowing that her entire life has been devoted to art. Proud of her age and her accomplishments, she encourages all to view what might be her final solo show.Leavens’ exhibition at Red Bank’s McKay Imaging is on view through May 17. Celebrated for her large, representational, realist and abstract works, her paintings are now exclusively nonobjective and small scale. Subject matter of figures, portraits and landscapes has been set aside. Leavens’ paintings now convey her spirit without illustrating her world — they command attention with paint strokes that burst with energy. “I have been doing nonobjective because abstract means it comes from something. It’s just coming from my brushes and my tools now. There aren’t any preconceived ideas — nothing. I use odd things to make the paintings. I use a broken spoon, for instance — my fingers, riggers — very fine brushes to make fine marks — anything broken or different to try to make an original mark,” she says.

An only child who never married, Leavens says her focus always has been on art.“I just recently stopped teaching, a year ago. hat was a big part of my life, my entire income. I was a teacher. I taught young people — teenagers — in my home,” she says. “For 45 years, six days a week, I taught figure modeling, figure painting, figure drawing, oil painting.”Gone are the days when Leavens’ energy could easily conquer a wall-size canvas. Today, her watercolors are easily carried under her arm. With these works, Leavens challenges her audience to come to terms with complete nonobjectivity.

“I feel that people will look at it with great reticence,’’ she says. “They may look at it a long time to try to figure it out. It may grow on them.’’

Her favorite painting on view is a watercolor, “Black Convergence.’’

“It’s the most exciting one. It’s the wildest one I’ve ever done. I love that one,” she said. She is curious as to how this new work will be received and wants to talk with her public and encourages people to sign the guest registry. For information about her life, awards, and exhibition history:
evelynleavens.com.
Here is my favorite section of her website…
BOSWELL
End of article….
More loving Evelyn later….Cat, Chaps and Emma
For NJ Press Media
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Welcome To My Orange Sunday….

May 6th, 2012 - 9:09 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Orange Sunday Lovers….

This morning I was looking in my inventory closet.  I have so much basset stuff I want to put in my boutique, most of it I have had since 2006.

This little orange item made me smile.  Why in the world has this been hidden away for about 6 years?  I love it.

I actually recall buying it and the person calling it a cubist orange basset.

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I just fell in love with it but I always wondered, why the tears?

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This little darling is about the size of a cherry tomato.

Here is the classic basset butt…

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I brought orangeeeeee up to my kitchen while I squeezed some OJ for my Mom and I.

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Then I noticed the T-shirt I bought a few days ago laying on the dining room table. Orangeeeeeeee is there too.

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What is up with all of the orange?  For lunch I had an orange carbonated water and some cheese crackers.

More loving orange later…Cat, Chaps and Emma

PS – no way I am selling little orangeeeeeee.  Love that cutie!  I still wonder why orangeeeeeee is crying???

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Howlin’ at the Super Moon – Tonight!

May 5th, 2012 - 9:09 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Super Moon Lovers…

Tonight is some great moon viewing and don’t mean these kinds!

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OK, I just came in from taking a few picture of the super moon rising over the sky across the street.

I first saw it at about 9:00pm.

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Of course the Mayor was watching me watch the super moon!  He was in his super worry bed!

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One more shot of the whole super moon.  It was much better in person but I thought I would super share!

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More loving our super moon later….Cat, and the super kids, Chaps and Emma

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You get the popcorn and I will pick the movie!

May 5th, 2012 - 7:07 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Movie Night Lovers.

Back in the day the Mayor used to jump up on the couch and we would watch a movie. Now, he is laying at my feet and we are still going to watch a movie.

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We are watching Earthquake on AMC.  Remember that one from the 1970s with Charleston Heston?

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I remember seeing it in the theater and they had the shaking seats.  It was a hoot!

I made sure to tuck Emma into her pillow nest!

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Then I popped the corn.

Lots of extra butter…

Time to shake, rattle and roll with my dates….

More good movie picks later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howl dare you get me off the couch – YouTube!

May 3rd, 2012 - 1:01 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Fancy Couch Lovers…

The kids and I made this video back in 2007 and to date it has received 40,420 hits on YouTube.  I think it might be my most viewed tube, or at least one of them.

I thought I would share it again on the blog!

I still have the couch and there is still no hounds allowed on it.  It is now for the best now because I don’t like them jumping up on furniture anymore due to their aging backs.  I try to protect them at all cost.

I hope you enjoy!

More loving long backs later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Finally, Justice Has Been Served in the Murder Hollow Basset Hound Cruelty Case!

May 1st, 2012 - 6:06 pm KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and patience is a virtue lovers.

Wow!  I am so pleased to report the following breaking news….

As far as I can tell, I was one of 2 bloggers that was investigating the Wendy Willard Murder Hollow Basset Hound Cruelty Case. (See Case synopsis below)

My position was to defend the bassets and tell the truth as my investigating unfolded.

Even the Basset Hound Club of America stood by the side of Willard, who has never even been a member of the club! The put out repeated requests for money to defend Willard in her trial, all in an effort to protect their interests.  Never did they stand up for the bassets who were rotting with mange, infested with ticks and standing in their own waste when the investigators showed up to save them.  I did.  I repeatedly advised my club against this pathetic decision but I was shut down at every turn.  I was IGNORED!

My investigation started in August of 2009 and I have stuck with it all this time.  Close to 44 thousand folks poured over my investigative reporting on my basset hound town forum regarding Murder Hollow.

I am proud and pleased to bring you the wrap up!

BREAKING NEWS….

Dog Breeder Loses Case Over 11 Seized Bassets
PHILADELPHIA (CN) – A dog breeder who says animal-welfare officers “decimated” her pack of 23 prized hunting basset hounds cannot sue, a federal judge ruled.
Wendy Willard claimed in July 2011 that the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and two of its officers trampled her civil rights by seizing 11 dogs from her pack, known as the Murder Hollow Bassets.
Willard accused officers of trespassing on her land to conduct surveillance, and said the search warrant did not rely on observance of any criminal activity.
During the July 2009 search, officers allegedly accused Willard of having more than 12 dogs in a home in violation of Philadelphia’s so-called limit law.
But Willard says that law pertains to residences, and that she kept 21 of her dogs in a heated barn.
Willard says she agreed to surrender 11 dogs because officers threatened to confiscate all 23 otherwise.
“As night fell, Miss Willard was forced to undertake the traumatic task of choosing which of her dogs – most of which had been whelped in her home and spent every day of their lives with her- to hand over to the PSPCA,” the suit states.
U.S. District Judge William Yohn Jr. dismissed the suit last week, finding that Willard failed to allege a plausible constitutional claim.
Even if the PSPCA’s warrant was unconstitutionally obtained through trespass, “it would not necessarily follow that the search of her property was unconstitutional,” Yohn found.
Officers were simultaneously executing two search warrants that summer day – one obtained by the PSPCA and one obtained by the Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement (BDLE), part of the state’s Department of Agriculture, the judge said.
Though Willard did not object to the bureau’s warrant, she argued that the PSPCA and BDLE “are two separate and distinct organizations whose actions are governed by separate and distinct standards,” according to the court’s summary.
“Defendant PSCPA cannot shirk its responsibility simply by accompanying BDLE” on a search, Willard’s opposition brief states, arguing for application of the “stalking horse” theory, which addresses collaborations between law-enforcement agencies subject to differing search-warrant standards.
Police are generally required to show probable cause for a search, but parole officers often face a less stringent standard when applying for a warrant, as they need only show that reasonable suspicion of a crime exists.
Under the “stalking horse” theory, a search by a parole officer can be invalidated if it is nothing more than a ruse for a police investigation. But the theory did not persuade Yohn.
“Willard’s analogy to the ‘stalking horse’ theory is appealing insofar as the PSPCA’s and the BDLE’s burdens for obtaining search warrants are different, not unlike the disparate standards governing police officers and parole officers,” the 13-page opinion states.
The 3rd Circuit has rejected the “stalking horse” theory and held that “the mere fact of collaboration” between parole and police officers is not sufficient to invalidate a search, according to the court.
Yohn said the search of Willard’s home in July 2009 should be analyzed under the ordinary Fourth Amendment “reasonableness” standard.
“According to Willard’s own allegations, the search of her property occurred pursuant to a warrant obtained by the BDLE,” he wrote. “Willard does not challenge the sufficiency, reasonableness, or constitutionality of this warrant.”
“Nothing in Willard’s complaint suggests that the mere fact of collaboration between the PSPCA and the BDLE … should invalidate a search of Willard’s property pursuant to a seemingly valid warrant issued to the BDLE,” the judge found, granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss. 
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COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Justice was served and I was a dog on a bone.  It feels good to know that these bassets finally had someone stick up for them!  The Judge!

More investigative reporting later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

PS – now on to my next case….

Watch Hound!

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Blast from the bassethoundtown past!

April 30th, 2012 - 8:08 am KY Time

Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and blast from the past lovers!  I was looking for an old picture which is always a chore.  I now have about 14 thousand in my IPhoto file.  Keep in mind, these 14K are only since I started bassethoundtown online back in 2004.  It is always fun to look through all the pics because you run across ones like this.

Look howl young our Mayor looks!  This was back on 2006.  These are his new toys.  He still has both of them.

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I think the Mayor has the prettiest paws in the world.

Well…I just thought that I would share memories of our town!

More memories later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

PS – I am still looking for that picture that started the whole thing.

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