The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

I just love her floppy ears. I bet they feel like velvet. We have a brother and sister pair that were dumped on us 4 years ago. Little brother Buck has some sort of hound in him. Maybe walker coon hound. He has floppy hound ears and when he gets ramped up can bay with the best of them. The neighbor a quarter mile aways say they can hear him when he starts baying.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I just love her floppy ears. I bet they feel like velvet. We have a brother and sister pair that were dumped on us 4 years ago. Little brother Buck has some sort of hound in him. Maybe walker coon hound. He has floppy hound ears and when he gets ramped up can bay with the best of them. The neighbor a quarter mile aways say they can hear him when he starts baying.

I am not so fond of hounds, we had a Bassett hound next door when i was growing up. The houses were close together and they used to chain him up between our house and theirs. And he would bark incessantly. They took him hunting like twice a year and the rest of the time he was chained up poor thing.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am not so fond of hounds, we had a Bassett hound next door when i was growing up. The houses were close together and they used to chain him up between our house and theirs. And he would bark incessantly. They took him hunting like twice a year and the rest of the time he was chained up poor thing.

do not blame the dog it was stupid owner

 

[CapricornFarm]

do not blame the dog it was stupid owner

Yeah, but if you listened to it bark for years you would dislike it too!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I owned half of the top winning basset in the breed history in obedience then took him best of breed 14 times before he retired to my kennel and a sofa

 

[microchick]

I am not so fond of hounds, we had a Bassett hound next door when i was growing up. The houses were close together and they used to chain him up between our house and theirs. And he would bark incessantly. They took him hunting like twice a year and the rest of the time he was chained up poor thing.

Oh that is just so sad on so many levels. Buck is a sweetheart. When they found us they were 7 weeks old and covered in cow flop. He was scared to death and hiding behind a tree. I carried his stinky little body home with his head on my shoulder. Somebody had tossed him out of the car at the bridge on the road at our east property line. It tore all the skin off the pads of his feet. His little puppy feet were swollen and sore. He wound up on antibiotics. They are 4 years old now and you would never know anything bad ever happened to him. Every morning he escorts me out to the chicken coops, stands guard while I tend the birds, escorts me to the water hydrant, waits till I fill the water jugs and then escorts me back to the coup. He gets an egg for pay.

His sis loves to dig up and kill voles. She is part Jack Russell Terrier. we think he is part Walker Coon Hound. What the other half is is kind of anybody's guess. Some say Springer Spaniel. Some say Border Collie. They do go into the Border Collie crouch and stare regularly so we lean towards BC.

This was taken during the drive to the vets for their first visit. Buck is the one leaning against his sister. His feet were so sore.

And here's our hound dog boy celebrating his first snowfall:

I agree. That poor neighbor dog was just begging for love and attention the only way he knew how. He was lonely. Our hound boy is a good watch dog, can bay with the best of them but he knows that when 'mommy' gives him the 'look' he'd better hush up because he is so sensitive natured that if you yell at him he pouts for hours.

 

[pennyJo1960]

border collie and hound both

 

[drumstick diva]

The one wearing the blue collar has a definite Springer spaniel head & coloring.

Speaking of baying though, the former neighbors on the corner had Puggles (Pug x Beagle) they looked mostly pug but they bayed like a hound and really kept it up. To me, it demeaned both fine breeds.

 

[Alaskan]

Yay! i caught the guineas except 2! Lured them into the hoop coop with ripped up bread and shut the door. Hoping to catch those 2 when they are roosting tonight. Maybe a couple more months will convince them that is where they need to be.

I am amazed that they wouldn't learn where home was after 2 months!

My Aunt had guineas, but I never did. Crazy beasts.

@microchick great dog story.

 

[Cynthia12]

It's about time they put these out! What were they waiting for?