Haven't blogged much. Thinking a lot about friends who are having troubles, I guess. The dogs have been pretty quiet.
Doc has a new game. Called "Torture The Basset". When they all go out the door he leaps over the Bassets and starts biting Conley. I know how hard he is biting. Not hard enough to draw blood but it hurts. I know this for a fact. I have experience.
This enrages Conley, whose hackles go up and he charges, attacking Doc who dodges deftly out of the way, laughing. Over and over Conley goes for him but no matter what he does unless Doc feels like quitting, Conley cannot catch him. Now and then Doc ends up on the ground with Conley straddling him, chewing on his throat. Doc doesn't care. He just gets up. Once in a great while I see Doc get worried and then he just slinks off to a corner of the yard.
The boys are also sufficiently interested in the new fish pond that we have had to fence it off, at least until Nigel and Llewis learn to swim. Conley and Doc could get out easily, but neither of the other two could. They would drown.
The Basset Boys are ok, even with Nigel's UTI. I think this is something we are just going to be dealing with from time to time.
I have taken him off the SO dog food without permission and switched all of them to a dehydrated raw food that they love and it's going to require that I find a job if they are going to continue to eat it. Today I see the stuff I had been feeding before the switch has been recalled.
Nigel enjoying the yard, the sun and what is left of the "garden". Unfortunately we put a path through it and he is always getting lost in there...
LewisLewis, my mouth with feet. This boy just never shuts up. Walk out the door, turn around and walk back in and it is as if you have
been gone for months.
Conley, feeling very princely, of course.
Waiting for someone to move so he can chase them.
ah baby doc needs someone to kick his butt...so he can learn that being obnoxious has a price. conley needs to learn a new tactic of revenge...
ReplyDeletethe joyous awful teenage years. i wanted to kill buster when he was at that point. sally damn near made me crazy too...
love the pond..wish i could have one here...i have to check but i am pretty sure it's not allowed..but that would be pretty cool...
Enjoying the pictures of the boys!
ReplyDeleteWe have a fish pond. The dogs quickly realized that its a huge water bowl that never goes empty. In the winter we run a small heater so the water does not completely freeze over because without an escape for the gases, the fish will die. The dogs also realized if they push said heater aside, the water is nice and cold. What they didn't realize was that ice eventually thaws out. My lab fell in not once, but twice. Thankfully she was able to get out. The fish pond now has a fence around it.
ReplyDeleteTina and the crew in MA