camp

I needed to get away for a while, so I sent my human across the country for the week while I spent a couple days at a doggy daycare centre. I had a good time sniffing butts and talking with all the guys. I had my own huge hut to sleep in and I had my own personal human give me my food and water exactly when I wanted it.

You might be able to see me in the middle of of the picture. I'm the dude walking towards the blue bridge thing. The usually were about 4 times as many guys around as you see in this picture, but I guess everyone had to go pee when the picture was snapped.

I'm staying at another human's house for the rest of the week. I get lots of walks, belly rubs and bully sticks to chew on every night. As much as I enjoy staying at the daycare centre and this wonderful house its always good to go home and sleep in my own bed.

decisions... decisions

Today when I was at the park, I was trying to decide what to do. Go play with the goofy lab? Wrestle with some boxers? Play tag with the huskies... or maybe pee on someone's leg.

The huskies are really fun because they run in packs and when you tag one of them, the other ones sneak up behind you and ambushes ya. I have a couple favorite husky buddies at the park and we always have fun. I'm usually soaked with Husky slobber because they always grab me by my neck. But that's ok, I either get their legs or neck as well. When I finally get one of them to chase me, I run like a turbo charged hound jacked up on Mountain dew! People watch me run and they always yell "I didn't know a basset could run that fast". What a bunch of smucks! Of course hounds can run fast. We just choose not to most of the time.

About half the time I "choose" not to run around too fast. I prefer to sit beside my human and wait until a speeding dog runs beside me and then I'll leap out and surprise the crap out him to get him to slow down. This is a 15 mph zone ya know! Or if a big dog is playing too ruff with a little dog, then I'll go over and politely bark and tackle the bigger dog. Someone's gotta stick up for the little guy around here. I like been the dog park ref.

So you see, I have a difficult life. You humans don't know how easy you have it. So many decisions to make all the time. decisions... decisions....

Stink eye

When was the last time you woke up only to see the back end of your hound, right up close and personal to your head? Well, from a hound's prospective its a sign of affection. I'm just protecting you from anything that might jump out of the closet. If the boogey man does come out, he'll have to deal with me first before he gets you and the only way I can do this is if I'm pointing in the right direction. I have to line up my sexy butt directly with your head. Oh! and I forgot to mention, you always know its me because you'll always smell my wonderful sexy butt.

So there you go. Now you know why when you wake up to a smiling "stink eye" in the morning you should not be mad, but be glad I'm there to protect you!

I have to go now, I've been awake for almost 4 hours and I need some rest. Lately I've been dreaming about chasing bunnies and playing with my friends at the park. My human keeps telling me that I've been barking and running in my sleep and it wakes him up. Well, all I can say is get use to it!

I see things....

I was going to the dog park tonight to hang out with all the big dogs, and traffic was backed up over a mile . (1.62 km for all the Canucks out there) I was riding shotgun just like I always do, but today was a little different. The car stopped because of traffic and I was looking out the window and I thought I saw something that made me a little cautious. Of course I started to growl at whatever was out there and made sure my driver looked at whatever I was pointing at. The freeky thing is a number of years ago there was a car accident around where the car stopped and a human past away. It just sorta made the fur on my back stand up a little. I was glad the car started to move again. But then again, it could have been a bunny....

Have you ever wondered why male humans always stare at female humans boobies? And whats up with those females only having 2 boobies? Why don't they have lots like we do? I over heard a couple female humans talking to each other and they were pointing at another female human and said "those aren't real". Not sure what they were talking about, but they were sure laughing and pointing a lot. Oh yeah, back to the male humans. They stare at those boobies a lot and when the female sees the male staring at her boobies she gets mad. So.... why is that? those boobies are sticking out and sometimes squished upwards with a touture device. I thought thats what she wanted everyone to see? Female humans.... very strange animals indeed.

I came home from the dog park and had to actually beg! I'm telling ya B-E-G for my usual amount of chicken jerky treats. What the heck is going on around here? A hound could starve to death if I didn't work so hard for those treats. Sometimes those treats make my farts really ripe. Maybe tonight I'll let some silent but deadly ones sprew out all over the house to teach that big dummy of a human who's the boss around here. Humph! When I come home from the park I demand! DEMAND I say!!! for my chicken jerky treats to be ready!

Warning, guard dog on duty

Today started out pretty much the same as they have for a while. I wake up and start to whine to wake up the human for a 5 minute tummy rub, food and a good long pee (ahh!!!!!! nothing like the first pee of the day!) out in the back yard. I usually like to take a 15 minute break (I sleep in my doggy bed) before I have to bug the human to take me out for a morning walk. There were tons of dogs barking this morning. I just ignored the fools since I'm the one who's walking around the neighborhood peeing on every mailbox post, bush and pretty much anything I think is worthy of a squirt!

After my afternoon nap, I took the human to the park to enjoy the sites and to see if there were any dogs there worthy of a game of tag. Unfortunately there were not very many dogs there but there were a bunch of humans running around and doing some strange stretching things. The alpha human was yelling something that I did not understand, but she had everyone in control because all the other females were doing everything she yelled at them to do.

My human has been fussing over some device he calls a f'n iPhone. He's constantly poking at it and paying way too much attention to the darn thing. He keeps saying that ATT sold him a piece of crap and he shouldn't have to pay for 3G data services that he he isn't receiving. Doesn't he know I'm the center the the universe and not that darn little box? I'll have to fix that darn box later on when he's not looking.

Anyways, this is what I think my human's iPhone and ATT's G3 service. Maybe if/when the G3 service improves, I'll change my mind. After all, I'm a french hound which entitles me to change my mind all the time!

I've been watching the Olympic games with my human. He says the games have been good this year. Actually I sleep while he watches the volleyball games. But that doesn't matter. I'm thinking about competing in the next games in London! Do you think they'll make "squat and poo" an official Olympic event? (look at the picture you big dummy...) I'm actually pretty good at it and I always make my human pick it up in little blue bags. Man.... he's such a wanker walking around the neighborhood carrying a blue bag filled with my crap!