<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Elwood, this is LuLu,</DIV>
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<DIV>You are a very lucky hound. It is a good thing you don't live in California because I've a to konk you one. So you think it is unbasset like of me to like my toenails trimmed? Is that what you said? Really? I suppose we probably have different history. My toenails got so long that I couldn't walk and my feet looked deformed. I had to try to hobble on my heels and every step hurt. My clueless momPerson got them cut every single week for a couple of months to get them short enough that my feet could go back to normal. I still walk a bit tenderly but I can run now and nobody notices my feet. So, to me, toe nail clipping spells relief. For you, maybe it spells something else.</DIV>
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<DIV>My clueless momPerson won't do it herself because my nails are so big and so thick .... so she uses the special basset lady at Pet Smart. Been thrown out of there have you? Well, so has Snoopy. He has a nasty habit of ahrooooooooooo'ing at other dogs and sending them into a panic. So he has been asked to leave. More than once. More than twice. But momPerson is clueless and she keeps bringing him back. Now he has class there every Thursday. He says the trainer has a box. If you ahroooooo then a red light comes out of the box and then your ears hurt until you stop ahroooooooooing. The trainer told the clueless momPerson it was a new invention and she could buy one. She's not buying one. But Snoopy doesn't ahroooo in class.</DIV>
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<DIV>Right now it is sunny and 65 degrees in our backyard and we are 3 bumps on the rug soaking up sun in our backyard. </DIV>
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<DIV>Little Gracie is the dickens. She knows she is supposed to pee outside so she comes out the dog door and then she squats and pees on the patio. What? You see all that grass little girl? What the heck? The clueless momPerson says just leave her alone, as long as it is outside she can pee anywhere she wants. What? If you pee on the grass it doesn't smell but if you pee on the concrete it stinks until it rains or somebody hoses it off. I'd better go konk her.</DIV>
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<DIV>More later from LuLu who is in charge .... with Snoopy who is asleep and Gracie who pees in odd places (but at least it's outside)</DIV></div></body></html>