[Dailydrool] What I have learned from bassets

[Pamela McQuade via Dailydrool]

I'm rather late in chiming in on this, but here are the major life 
lessons I've learned from each of my hounds:

That puppies are way overrated, while seniors are the sweetest hounds in 
the world.

That no one will love you like a dog who has been passed around from 
home to home, when you say, "It stops here," and adopt him.

That some people take terrible care of their wonderful dogs. Such dogs 
are really fairyprincesses in disguise.

That sticking with a dog who is hurting brings the greatest joy.

That some people lie like rugs about the dogs they turn in. They never 
discover the joy of a dog who can't help having health issues. When they 
get old, those folks will deserve being deserted by the people who 
should care for them (though I find it in my heart not to wish that on 
them, as they did their dog).

That blind dogs will amaze you (many thanks for that truth from the 
Yahoo blinddogs group) and that the people who give up on blind dogs get 
the short end of the stick--and we got the very long end.

That fearful hounds have lots of love to give and need only patience to 
bring it out.

I also have learned that no one dies from cleaning up dog pee and that 
bassets are the best dogs in the world, even if they do rule your life.

Thanks for these truths go to Lady Jane, Belvedere, Thefairyprincess 
Alexis Grace, Abner Ahrooo, Holly da Dolly, C. K. Dexter Haven, and 
Horton Theveryfearful. Without you all, I would never have known any of 
it. My life is much richer for having learned this wisdom.

Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets