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<p class=MsoNormal>Our bassets are also very breed specific. We
especially see this at dog shows. While we are lounging around the “house
on wheels” and the dogs are lounging in their “portable yards”,
someone can walk by with bassets and they simply watch or occasionally bark a
friendly greeting. However, if a non-basset walks by, the barking is
clearly not a friendly greeting – more of an “intruder/non-basset
alert”. While dogs at dog shows mingle among each other ring side
with no signs of aggression or even acknowledgement (that cannot be tolerated),
while they are in their “own” area, they do show territorial
behaviors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My bassets love kids and certainly communicate with them.
They also use them to their advantage. I have 5 grandkids (3 of them are young
– 6,4,3) and the dogs certainly know they are easy marks for food. When
my grandson Caleb was about 3, he and Morey ATB would have frequent
conversations. This was especially “enlightening” because
Caleb has some speech and language delays due to early ear infections and Morey
was almost stone deaf in his later years. Caleb went to speech and
language pre-school to help with this problem, and many of the children in his
class had serious impairments, so sign language was used with those
children. So anyway, Caleb was visiting with us for the day and I ran to
the bathroom. When I came out of the bathroom, I could hear the dog
dishes rattling. I found Caleb climbing onto the grooming table and
putting food in Morey’s bowl. When I asked him what he was doing,
he said “I’m getting Morey a ‘nack (snack) coz he ‘aid
(said) he hungy (hungry).” I told him that Morey had just eaten his
breakfast, so he wasn’t hungry. Caleb persisted saying that Morey
told him he was hungry. To prove his point, he crawled into Morey’s
crate with him and asked Morey “Are you hungy?”. I told Caleb
that Morey couldn’t hear him because he was deaf. Caleb said “He
not dead – see he breevin’!” I explained to him that
Morey couldn’t hear – so Caleb lifted up Morey’s ear and
yelled into it “Morey, are you hungy?” I told Caleb that
Morey still couldn’t hear, at which point Caleb turned to me and asked, “Does
Morey sign?” Needless to say, Morey got a ‘nack!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sandi Wittenberg - Red Bay Bassets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>sandi@redbaybassets.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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