I fully intended to celebrate Big Bassets homecoming from his day trip to the vets with some portraits at home. The weather has conspired against me and it’s howling a southerly and raining so I’m cheating and using some photographs taken by my father in... 
He looked at me with indignation – what, I’m not coming too? Little Basset was puzzled, he was left sitting in the car and his pesky big brother was strutting off with the pack leader. I’m sure he must have been thinking what have I done to... Bassets are pack animals and their life revolves around the dynamics within the pack. Who is top dog, where the other pack members are and what it takes to get the attention of the pack leader.  There is one thing a basset like less than a bath is when there are... A panting hot basset requires immediate remedial action to avoid an all out walking strike. For once a basset has decided it’s too hot to go further they will simply lie down in flat basset mode and refuse to move. A diversion to the river is a perfect... For a long time our bassets used to be hounds that were seen and not heard. That all changed the day that MT turned into Dolittle Esq and made them believe that he could talk their language. They will now regularly howl in unison and would rather shout out for us... 