<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I was chatting with another drooler about the Bassets vocalizing. Llewis talks. We think it is because he cannot do some of the other things the dogs do because of his frozen leg and other strange afflictions.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So he talks. He doesn't just bark or bay: he mumbles, he hums, he wow-wows like a Malamute. He snarls and growls but he also gurgles and humphs, yells and whispers and when we walk in the door (even if we just took out the garbage) he hollers--and he keeps it up. He tells us about his day, their day, the other day, his complaints, his pleasures, who shut a car door a block away and when.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Just wondering if this is typically Basset-- none of my others have been so verbal-- or what.</div>
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"> </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">MomPerson to Llewis (who never really shuts up) Nigel, Conley and Doc (whose voice is changing.)</div>
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