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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Baxter and Bunny are our two new Bassets, the bonded pair who came to us in early September. I’ve never had any Bassets who actually howled before, but these two do. We live within a mile or two of the huge spaghetti intersection of two Interstate Highways in Dallas, so we hear lots of sirens (not real loud but you definitely hear them). Plus we live a little less than three blocks away from a fire station. Lots of sirens there, too. Baxter howls at sirens, and Bunny (who is a bit hard of hearing) hears Baxter howling and chimes in. Mostly they howl in the daytime, at night when they’re asleep they don’t seem to register sirens (a good thing). I actually enjoy the howling, they don’t do it for too long and as long as it’s before 10:00 PM nobody cares. (Bax and Bunny go to bed early.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Holly and Bea are not howlers. Holly talks to me, especially if I’m not behaving up to her standards, but no howling ever. Bea is the silent one, she never barks or whines or anything, except when someone rings the doorbell, then she goes into Cujo mode. But otherwise, totally silent. Except this last week, when Bax and Bunny howled, Bea has been whimpering a tiny bit and staring at me. Well guess what – this evening when a siren went by after Trick or Treat time, Bax started howling, Bunny chimed in, and then I heard a new sound, looked over towards Holly and Bea, and it was Sister Bea howling, too. So funny. It appears Bax and Bunny have taught Bea to howl. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>