Much to the dismay of the bassets (and dachshunds) here, we have 2 storage bins for dog food that are from the pet department. Well, a sneaky basset here who shall remain nameless figured out how to open up the door of the bin with her nose and we caught her eating a kibble. It would close on her again and we kept hearing the door closing noise. So I went out and purchased carabineers<div>
(Sp?) and I hook one of them through each hole that is atop the door of the bins. This prevents all four hounds from getting into the dog food. Just a thought with the post of the basset girl eating the bin of food on the drool posting. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, as another poster said, I have doxies and bassets and I do not let my dachshunds to even attempt going down a flight of stairs (one can go up at bedtime; the other gets carried) and both of them are carried down in the morning. My bassets are allowed to go up and down slowly when they get their baths, otherwise the stairs are gated. The slowly down is the issue because wet basset somehow equals out to the hound 500 here. I had a dachshund as a child who got depressed after my father died and he ended up having disk issues from weight gain so I am just an over cautious. We do have two steps outside our door to the backyard that all do use to walk in and out to potty though. I wish I had a ranch style house so that the hounds could have free roam while we are home instead of not being able to follow us to our bedrooms and such. Maggie used to follow me around years ago when I would go into one of the kids' bedrooms to change them or put them down for a nap when they were babies. I wish she still had that freedom.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>DRool to all in need,<br>Dee, Maggie, Mazzie, Oliver & Cooper<br>
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