It's my Gotcha Day!

Yup one year ago today I got to go and live with my new mama and daddy! I left behind the living in the garage thing, and got to go to a place where I got lots of lovins' right away. Daddy and I sat on the couch together and he petted me and told me how beautiful I was!

Yes I know, but go ahead and keep telling me

My new hound brother and sister were not very friendly at first and to be honest I was kind of mean to them as well - but it was a very stressful time and I didn't know what to do! Besides Rosco can be a real jealous baby sometimes.

If he sniffs my butt one more time I swear I'll...

But now I get to live in a place where there are lots of belly rubs, treats, Chicken McNuggets, and couches to lay on.

Unfortunately daddy has to lay on the floor.

I also get to dig in the blankets and hide from everyone!

I am invisible in my top-secret basset fortress

So it has been a great year! Plus I got a special nacho chip for my Happy Gotcha Day treat! So as long as the Christmas Pig Monster stays dead for the rest of all time it is smooth sailing for this basset hound girl!

Stupid TV Commercial Sunday # 35

Hot on the heels of the last stupid TV commercial, the fast food chain giant McDonald's ups the ante in stupidity with their latest stab at selling more processed fried chicken parts.  The dogs think that chicken nuggets are great, but us cats know that the best chicken gets pureed and put into a can, then served to us on a dish.  Preferably at grandma's.

I hate you all

I know that these people are probably just actors, but if I were them I would have to get plastic surgery, move out of the country, and change my name, following the shame of being in such a stupid commercial.  'Slam to the dunk'?  Ugh!  Just kill me and get it over with!

A pretty awesome day

We decided to cancel stupid TV commercial Sunday this week, since the cats took over our blog last week. As it turns out we have much more important news to share anyway.

Today was a pretty awesome day. It started out with the usual barkfest at 5:30 to let mama and daddy know that we were awake. Then we went upstairs and had our breakfast, and mama woke up and watched TV with us. It was something about a transporter and cars and explosions - I don't remember, and there were no hounds or anything in it - and we spent lots of time napping. Dad went down to where he works while we all slept, and then when he came back -

WE WENT FOR A CAR RIDE!!!

Awesome I know!

Well this was a better car ride than any other, because we went to the pet store. I've never been to a pet store before, and it is pretty cool. There were lots of toys and treats everywhere, and there were other dogs around. Everyone said how pretty we were and we got lots of attention. Then we went to ANOTHER pet store and everyone did the same thing there too.

Then, on the way home, we stopped at the Chicken McNugget place. We didn't get any Chicken McNuggets there, but then we went to an ice cream place. At the ice cream place there were lots more people who thought we were pretty, and there were dogs that we barked and howled at. While we were waiting for mama's ice cream the ice cream lady asked if we wanted puppy cones.

Do we? Of course we do! And let me tell you they were delicious!

A pretty awesome day indeed!

Cry havoc and let loose the Jowls of Fury!

I have written about how much I love car rides before. I would have to say the best part about car rides is that you can put your head out the window and watch the world fly by you. The smells are the best, and you get to see jealous dogs and people watching you as you pass them by and leave them in the dust. Your ears and jowls flap in the breeze, and the best part is when you get to go to the fast food drive-in and get chicken Mcnuggets (they are the tasty!).

Below are some photos of us going on a car ride!

That mirror should say 'objects in mirror are sexier then they appear'.

Here's Breezy earning her name!

I look pretty awesome here.

Famous Basset Hound Friday - cancelled

Hello faithful readers! We have decided to cancel our weekly Famous Basset Hound Friday session this week due to breaking news!

It's my birthday!

Well, it WAS my birthday yesterday, and I am still too excited to do our famous hounds any justice! I just had to share the news and pictures of the day! Mom and Dad threw me a party, and Layla and Breezy were there, and some of the cats were nearby, I think... I was hoping Max and Maggie and Griff and Remy and maybe Slade would be there, but Mom and Dad said they live very far away and couldn't have made the trip. It was OK though, because we still had a great time!

We got lots of good stuff! We got to wear some cool birthday hats, and we even got to go for a car ride to go pick up my birthday cake. But I think the best part was that we got my favorite meal, Chicken McNuggets!

Here I am enjoying my birthday treat!

Dad even got into the party spirit and wore a hat himself as he got my birthday cake ready for us.

The cakes were delicious!

When my birthday party was over we snoozed on the couch. It was a pretty awesome birthday, I am looking forward to turning 3 next year!

Famous Basset Hound Friday #12

Continuing on our tradition of old-tymie famous hounds, we are reaching way back in the pre-history of hound comfort. To the days before air conditioning, Beggin' Strips, and Chicken McNuggets. Back to the days before there was a GABR basset waddle. If you can believe it, back to the days when basset hounds were not given the proper credit as the best dogs on earth.

Shocking!

This bleak world existed until February 27, 1928, when Time Magazine ran their cover with a baby basset hound. We don't know this hound's name, or even if it was a boy or a girl, but they finally delivered the light of jowls, droopy ears, and slinging saliva to a dark world that was desperate for a good hound.

We don't know how you people survived this long without us

This magazine cover was viewed as the event that started the basset hound's meteoric rise to popularity in American culture. The English and the French had already discovered us nearly a century before and were obviously better off for it, while Americans lived in misery and squalor.  Agony ruled the day until we finally came along and gave them the opportunity to feel better by taking care of us (belly rubs are a win-win situation as far as I'm concerned).

If you would like to read the article that accompanied it you can click here. It is supposedly told from the perspective of the basset hound puppy on the cover; I read it and didn't quite get that from the story but it is good nonetheless. The article is about the Westminster Kennel Dog Club Show that was going on at the time. Of course it was written in 1928 and the standards have changed a little bit, but the author got a few things right about basset hounds at least.

So there's your famous hound for the week. I think I'm going to take a nap; there is more snow on the ground today. Also my belly needs to be rubbed and Dad looks like he is feeling lonely so...

Famous Basset Hound Friday #10

This week we have a famous basset hound who was owned by a (slightly less) famous actor. His name was Sidney, and his owner (some guy named Clint Eastwood) was lucky enough to own him.

As you can read from above, Sidney was sure to make his owner get him the right kind of food. I think he did pretty well in training Mr. Eastwood, as he obviously understood hound dietary needs (read the part about Piggy Bags). We need to work on our dad's training because he didn't share any of his chicken McNuggets with us tonight. Anyway, I just got done Googling this guy Eastwood and it sounds like he owes Sidney an awful lot! Successful people with basset hounds are really no surprise, given our expertise in most worldly subjects.

So that's our famous hound of the week!