[Dailydrool] Boys v. girls

[Pamela McQuade via Dailydrool]

I evidently missed the first post on this subject, which is one I have 
strong feelings about.

We have had seven bassets over the year and have fostered more (I have 
not counted how many). Almost universally, the girl dogs are the pack 
leaders. Only Alexis, who had been a lone hound in her previous home, 
did not want to rule the pack. Jane and Holly were firmly in the 
driver's seat from the time they entered the house (or in Jane's case, 
as soon as Bel entered the house, making us a two-dog pack). Basset 
girls are generally pretty sweet.

But the boys, who have grown up under a mama basset's paw, do not 
attempt to do anything but love up the humans. They are the lovebugs of 
bassetdom. Sweet, sweet, sweet. Adorable. Once they fall in love with 
you, you are done for--you have to adopt them. That's how we got Horton, 
whom I had determined would go elsewhere. I think he made Drew forget to 
get me a Valentine's Day gift--the only time in more than twenty years 
of marriage my husband forgot. Hort ended up being my gift.

Really, you cannot go wrong, no matter which gender you adopt. But the 
girls are bossier.

Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets