Whatcha call'n me?

I was walking today and a lady comes up and says "you have a very large Doxie...." If she wasn't so nice, Bleu would have peed on her leg. I guess its his good looks and charm which fool people all the time.

Today is just one of those perfect days. Its sunny and warm, but not too warm. The birds are singing some crazy song and I can hear the stupid ice cream truck driving up and down the streets waiting for some little kids to wave a fist full of money for an ice cream treat. Bleu is sleeping on his back outside in the sun. Do dogs ever get sun burnt?

Winter has finally come to southern california. For the last 2 weeks the weather has been cool with rain showers, sometimes heavy rain. Bleu is like a ground hog, except if he see's rain drops falling near his doggy door he won't go out side. I have to open the sliding glass door and walk outside to show him he won't melt. Although if we're on a walk and it starts to rain, he's usually happy to continue sniffing and walking in the mud. If it raining heavy, Bleu heads for the house or the car.


Question... why do hounds like to roll on dried worms after it rains?

Bleu is napping on the couch. Go figure...



Doesn't like to go out the doggy door when its raining.

Not afraid of pitbulls but terrified of a fly buzzing around the house...

Never refused a chicken treat

Doesn't like raw carrots.

Likes the cat next door.

Saturday mid-morning naps

Today is just a very good day just to relax and take a nap. Of course we don't sleep on the sofa, because we still have a very strict rule about hounds on sofas, we have to sleep on the carpet or sometimes outside in the sun.

Sometimes when I'm sleeping I'll dream about been at the dog park where I'm running and barking at all the other dogs. Its almost as fun as really been at the park! I also like to fart once in a while when I'm napping. Sorta tells everyone I'm still around ;)







Tiger the hound spent the night at the house and as you can see (tilt your head) he wanted to have a nap as well. Too bad he decided to nap right in the middle of our morning walk. It only took 10 mins before the big woofer decided he was rested enough to walk the rest of the way home.










Tiger is a good hound, but his breath smells like he just ate a frog! *Yuck*



I should get back to my busy napping schedule. I know its hard, but someone around here has to do it. Sigh!!

No hounds on the couch

Just like many homes, we have a very strick rule on who can sit on the sofa. Hair, dirt and other stuff get on the sofa which in turn gets everyone else dirty.

Its a good thing Bleu knows this rule and respects all the house rules. After all, Bleu is a good hound and would never break any house rules just for the heck of it.

I usually have a nice blanket laying on one of the couches which I use when the temperature gets a little cool in the fall and winter. It sure beats turning on the furnace and heating the entire house for a couple hours.

Its too bad everyone doesn't have a good hound like Bleu. I'm sure lucky that he's so smart.

September 11

My human will always remember where he was on Sept 11th. At LAX waiting for a flight to Europe via JFK. The flight was just about to start boarding when there was a strange announcement calling for all the gate attendants to gather for a meeting. This was unusual because this has never happened before and I think the gate attendants were a little confused as well. When they came back, there was another announcement telling everyone to leave the airport immediately and ALL flights were canceled for the day. I called the airline to reschedule my flight and they told me to watch the TV monitors in the airport. Since there weren't any TV's in around, I didn't know what was happening in NYC and DC. The lady finally told me they had lost 2 jets, one of them crashed into a world trade center. I hung up the cell phone and made my way for the terminal exit.

When I was waiting for the flight, I was talking to an older couple sitting next to me. They were in Los Angeles visiting family and were going back home to Europe. The wife spoke English well, but her husband had a little more difficulty. Afterwards when I was leaving the terminal area I noticed the older couple were very confused. I stopped to ask them if they needed any help. They asked what was going on and I told them that somone hijacked some jets and crashed them into the world trade center and the pentagon. They didn't know what to do, they wanted to talk to the gate attendant to see when the next flight was going to be. I explained that all flights were cancelled and probably wouldn't have scheduled flights for a while. I asked them if they could call someone to pick them back up at the airport or had some place to stay. If they didn't have anyone to pick them up or go to, I was going to bring them home with me until they could figure out what to do. They asked if they could borrow my cell phone to call the family there were visiting. Luckly, they were able to find someone to come back to the airport. I was glad to hear they were going to be safe and someone was there to look after them. I showed them where to wait outside the terminal to be picked up and I wished them the best of luck.

I'll always rememeber the look on their faces. A little confused, not sure what or where to go. Everyone was rushing around them. No one was exactly sure what to do because this has never ever happened before.

It took about 3 or 4 hours in a van pool to finally make it home. All I did the rest of the day was watch what was happening on TV.

Even to this day, I think about how lucky I was that day because I was less then 1/2 hour from boarding a plane headed towards NYC. If the jet had taken off, we would have been ordered to land at the first airport possible. I could have been stuck in some city with no way to get home. Other people were not as lucky...

That day will always be stuck in my memory for the rest of my life. Probably even a little longer than that!

What do you remember about Sept 11th?

Here comes fall

Labor day always seems to be the first weekend when I start to notice the days are getting shorter and trees are starting to loose leaves. I like fall because the temperature is cooler and I can run around more without sweating to death. The mornings just feel a little more crisp and my wonderful houndy voice seems to carry a lot further when its cool! When I bark and howl, even more people get to hear my wonderful singing.

As many of you already know, hounds have a lot of time to think about stuff. You know, I've been thinking about how happy I would be if Chicken Jerky treats just one day just rained out of the sky. I would be heaven! :) I just love chicken jerky treats! treats! treats! treats! I would run around gobbling up those delicious chicken jerky treats until I couldn't run no more. Them I would stuff some of the treats in my pocket so I had something to eat later that night. Oh boy, that sure would be a hound dogs dream. Chicken jerky treats from heaven...


Have you seen some of my friends? Last weekend I was at the BHRSC Breakfast with Bassets and I sniffed some butts, barked with my buddies yelled at some german shepards and ate some potatoes with cheese *yum*!

If any of you 2 leggers know of a good home for some of my buddies, I would be very grateful to the people who open their homes to some of my good houndy buddies.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. September 19th is Talk like a pirates day. So, make sure you practice your pirate talk and go out for some old fashion looting, drinking and chasing skirts!