It was a big day for our basset boys – time for their snip. Given that they’ve been fighting a bit more than we’d like we decided to get them done sooner rather than later as it may help to calm them down. Also, Fortnum had a missing bit which needed to be [...]
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Snip snip
Posted in Basset blogging on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Basset breakout
Posted in Basset blogging on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The bassets have turned terrorist since they returned from their holiday. I’m trying hard to see this as a natural process of them growing up but am starting to feel victimised a little and increasingly convinced that these little ratbags are giving me the runaround after careful planning.
Yesterday I was taking five during the [...]
Our boys are back
Posted in Basset blogging on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst we headed off for our holiday to Golden Bay, our boys – Fortnum and Mason – were back home with their mother. Yes, their real one – she’s called Abbie.
By all accounts they’ve been very well behaved. They seem to have left this behaviour in Woodville and started a new terrorist style of [...]
Give and inch……
Posted in Basset blogging on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a busy couple of days with MT’s parents arriving and a few bits of work on the horizon this week that needed preparation for. What’s been most time consuming though is keeping track of our bassets who are getting more independent minded every day.
I think Fortnum and Mason are disgusted with my grass [...]
Rainbow, rainbow
Posted in Basset blogging, Country life, Kiw weather on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not been a basset friendly day. We woke up to drizzle and our evening constitutional to spy on Mike and Andrea’s house was in the wet too. But wow was it worth it to be able to see rainbow-rainbow. Yes a double rainbow.
Oh course this was just the time for the camera to tell [...]
Beach boys in training
Posted in Basset blogging on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a beautiful day and when my friend Anna suggested a dog party at the beach, I thought why not. Fortnum and Mason deserve a treat and I could do with some time away from domestic executive duties. So off we went.
We went to Island Bay which is on the south side of Wellington [...]
How high can bassets jump?
Posted in Basset blogging, Garden blogging, Houseblogging on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to protect your hard work, and your house and garden, much needs to be done to basset proof it. Of course it’s also important for their own health and safety.
After putting so much effort into planting the new flower beds around the house it was important to break the puppies habit [...]
Bassets, bassets everywhere!
Posted in Basset blogging on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The perfect antedote to post parents departure today was a trip to the Wellington Basset Hound show. We thought it would be fun to have a reunion with our bassets’ family and also so see what a baggle of bassets really looks like.
Much to our amazement Fortnum and Mason were the perfect hounds. [...]
Nosey neighbours
Posted in Basset blogging, Neighours Houseblogging on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t resist checking out what the views will be like from our neighbours house so went up to have a peak at the views. They have some awesome views of the valley and hills and a splendid view of a fantastic house built close by!
As part of the visit we decided to introduce [...]
Lessons in life
Posted in Basset blogging on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Mason learned a huge lesson in life. Don’t stick your snout where it’s going to get stung by a bee.
It was quite a traumatic morning all round, mostly for me.
I knew that something had got him when he keep pawing at his nose. Within a few minutes we were revisiting [...]
