[Dailydrool] Lifting Bassets

[Barbara Sorensen]

DH Neal is always teasing me because I am always explaining things, at length, 
to the boys.  Remember the carton "Blah, Blah, Blah, Ginger, Blah Blah"?   When 
our first basset Max (of blessed memory) got older and couldn't get on our low 
platform bed, I carefully explained to him that if he could get his front paws 
on the bed, I would lift his back end.  Blah Blah Blah.  However, next I leaned 
over and put my hands on the bed and told him to 'Do Paws'.  He looked at me and 
then put his front paws on the bed!  I lifted his back end and we were both 
happy.  He was pretty good about repeating that, too.   But then, this was the 
basset that decided if we wanted him to stop barking, we should use the command 
'Tupperware!'.  But that's another story.

Barb, mom to Copper, Wilbur, Duncan, Buddy the not-a-basset and Max and Gretta 
(ATB)