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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">Sleep? I have five or six
Bassets in the bedroom three usually on the bed with my husband and I and we are
not small people so I am hanging off my side of the bed in order to accomodate
dogs, just as well because Buster likes me to have one hand on him all night
long or he noses me until I put my hand on his side. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">Every ten minutes someone
wants either in or out then after about an hour they settle down and go to
sleep, this will be around eleven pm. Sleep a while then at 12:30 the few that
did not go out need to go out now, they straggle in one here one there about a
half hour later the last one decides to come in. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">At 2:30 or 3am the parade
starts again, in out in out stay out till I just dose off then want in. My
husband cannot hear he blames this on me but really it is because he put siding
on the first 20 years of our married life and ran a skill saw every day for all
of that time so he lost a lot of hearing. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Comic Sans MS">Anyway back to my story,
finally around four they all settle in again and then at 5:30 because for three
years we got up at that time and they think we still need to get up at that time
every single day of the world everyone starts howling for breakfast so I get up
and feed them, once I am up and dressed I cannot get back to sleep. I have dog
doors in the kitchen anfd living room and garage but none in my bedroom my
husband is afraid to put one in there because we may wake up with a rabbit in
our bed. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>