[Dailydrool] Honey and Hector

[Menzie Campbell]

re: barking.  Hector, of our 4 (now 3), has the loudest, shrillest,
most teeth-rattling bark I've ever heard, and I've fostered dozens of
bassets in my day, so feel I have some experience in this area.  If he
gets into a barking fit, the monitor on my computer will, literally
and actually, shimmy a little with each bark.  I guess it's jsut the
right pitch, or megahertz frequency, or something.  It completely
shatters your train of thought; all your thoughts run shrieling into
the far recesses of your brain, trying to hide from the racket!

THe other three,and most fosters' barks, don't bother me nearly as
much.  This is why we call him HEctor TVL.  Luckily for the neighbors,
he likes to do most of barking inside.  Luckily for us, the old squirt
bottle can usually get him to hush if he gets on a barking jag.  (Now
that he's 9, he does it *slightly* less often, thank dawg).

Honey was beautiful!  Gosh, she had some major-length ears, didn't she?
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From: Kathi Lockhart <slave2bassets at gmail.com>
To: dailydrool at dailydrool.org
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:07:52 -0400
Subject: [Dailydrool] Debarking
I haven't posted for quite a while but I had to chime in on this
thread. When I adopted Honey and Marla several years ago, they had
already been debarked. Like Momperson said, I don't think they really
know that they can't bark like all the other dogs. Miss Honey (ATB)
had the most beautiful ahroo and, to this day, I miss it so much. I
was actually lucky enough to have caught it on video before she went
to the Bridge. Here is a link if you would like to hear her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsrgUYxr3Y


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Menzie Campbell
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