[Dailydrool] Thanks, Justin

[saba2r at aol.com]

Thank you, Justin, for your informative explanation of the gate system 
at your house.
I wanted to have the full effect of the stunning tableau which played 
out there.
All bassets should live in such a set-up, although we see that none is 
fool-proof!
It makes me think of the back doors on my house.  There are old, 
two-story city houses that we like to call "immigrant" houses because 
vast numbers of people coming to America lived in them, particularly 
early in the last century.  Many of them housed two separate familes, 
one up and one down.  Therefore, each floor has an inside door at the 
kitchen which opens onto either the landing for the first floor, or 
steps going down for the second floor.  There is then a door leading to 
the outside.  To the amusement of all, we refer to this as the "air 
lock".  It helps tremendously with preventing the escape of children, 
both human and animal.  All comers to the house are quickly instructed 
that only one door may be open at a time.  A few years ago, a handyman 
putting in new windows decided it would be easier to leave both doors 
open with his van parked at the outer door.  After recovering from our 
mutual faints, hubby and I informed him he would be spending however it 
long it took to chase down a hound dog, probably with his mutt sister 
in tow.  He never made that mistake again.  (In similar situations my 
nephew is fond of solemnly intoning, "People have died for less", to 
the uninitiated).

Becca
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