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!

Passing gas...

A human peeve I have is when I'm blamed for the deadly cloud of death that sweeps the room and everyone blames me! I mean really! It's not always me, honestly!!!

I'm resting real peacefully in my bed and suddenly there's a huge racket going on, humans are waving their hands, shaking their heads pointing at each other and finally pointing at me. I mean, I didn't do it!

I personally think it stinks! Always blame the hound... Must have been the dog... What do you feed him anyways? I eat pretty much the same stuff everyday. Kibble, chicken, chicken jerky treats and whatever I can scam off my human. But have you ever seen what those humans eat? They eat everything... I'm positive the green cloud of gas is coming from those furless, 2 legged gas passing monsters called humans!

Just to prove my point, we dogs are always checking out each others butts just to make sure we know what each other smells like. Trust me, no dogs could EVER smell that rank! *good grief*

Thus, I must be correct. Hound butt smells like roses, human ass smells like smelly stuff that must have died and is finally leaking out.

I found some videos which prove my point.

Mythbusters: Do pretty girls fart?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcDP_Yew-g&feature=related


Women do fart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oAjBwteHo&feature=related

Labor Day

I came back from camp and now I need a vacation. Its stressful playing all day and not sleeping the usual 18 hours a day! Only experienced hounds should attempt this. Not for amateurs or rookies. Good thing is a long weekend because I needed the extra day to relax and make sure everything was back to normal at the good ol' home front. And the best part about coming home is been able to eat my own home cooking. Mind you, its pretty much the same kibble as I've been eating at camp. But I get to eat it in my home food dish and drink my water out of my water dish. Nothing like drinking from a water bowl with someone else slobber swimming around in it. *yuck*

I've been thinking... Why do they call it labor day when you're not suppose to do anything but lounge around, visit with family and friends? where's the labor in that? They should call it "lazy ass, be a bum" day. Thats what they should call it. Everyone would just sleep in (except for me, I always wakeup early) and do nothing except walk, poop, pee on trees and go home and sleep on the carpet. I wonder how we can get the big dog to pass a law which enforces this holiday? what do you think?

So, what did you do this labor day?