Howllo Fellow Hound and snow lovers: I made this video last year. It seems perfect for today! The message at the end, “We love Basset Moms” was sent from a friend. We here in basset hound town love basset hound Moms and Dads! LOL
More snow later……Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and sugar plums dancing lovers:
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Hounds dreaming of Christmas Treats and thanking Santa for saving Homer!
More loving hounds later…….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Homer, (Home)r Boy, looks like he has a new forever home! It’s a Christmas Eve Miracle! I am still going to need help and I will be e-mailing everyone about that, but Homer is going to be heading to a nice lady in Western New York State. A lot is still up in the air about pulling, fees, boarding, transport etc. All I have to do is get him to New York. The details are just coming across the wire and the help everyone has offered is most likely still going to be needed, but now I bet it will not be near as much since I have a place to send him. It’s not a foster home, it’s a real home! A forever home!
I still have to make contact first thing Friday morning at the shelter, but I have left messages and sent e-mails.
I am looking forward to Christmas, but Friday cannot get here quick enough.
end of pupdate – I am so excited.
Howllo Fellow Hound and Christmas miracle lovers: This just came across the bassethoundtown wires and it is news that is never welcome. A 12 year old basset hound boy was dumped by his family at the Boone County, KY Animal Shelter. Here is his pet finder link:
http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=12671024
MEET HOMER!
Is he not as cute as piece of warm pumpkin pie?
Is that a heart on his head? I think it is!
Can you imagine dumping the family’s 12 year old dog at the pound. Talk about your Scrooge family. I don’t care if you don’t have a dime. In KY most shelters can put an owner relinquished dog down that same day.
I CANNOT FOSTER, however I can pick him up and have him boarded if anyone can help with his costs. He needs a home fast, we cannot board him forever! Anyone looking for the love of your life? Let me know!
More later……..I have just lost a bit of my Christmas Eve spark. Sigh………
This old guy needs a miracle for the hoidays.
Howllo Fellow Hound and Santa Lovers: Chaps has just e-mailed me from the North Pole and we have lift off. He also has my video camera and is linking to YouTube via my lap top. He has on his warm coat and he said that Santa is 3 seconds ahead of schedule.
Keep checking back for more updates from your Mayor. Love, Cat, Santa’s big helper, and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and Looking back lovers! Well, I am certainly one of those. Since I have been going down memory lane with my holiday cards I had to show you this one! Me as a 4 year old kid! hehehehe
I remember this shoot. My Dad was an avid photographer and my Mom was the producer. I love our outfits. I remember insisting that Pierre mon frere sit next to me. Pierre was his name and mon frere means my brother in french.
Ah……….Those where the days.
Thanks for endulging me!
More moments later…….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and freezing your butts off haters! It is just bitter, biting, bone chilling cold. We are freezing our butts of in Kentucky! Just look at Emmers!
Even though this picture was taken years ago, it really tells the story!
Keep your butts warm and make sure hounds are not left out side for very long. My vet told me that she sets 8 minutes on her kitchen timer to remind her to get the dogs in.
Mine have a dog door, but sometimes smells and sounds keep them busy even in the coldest of times. I really like that timer idea.
More cute coats shots later……Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and telepathic dog lovers: This is going to be kind of a long post with some scientific data included. It is very interesting. If you do read the entire post you might be very intrigued.
I use the word intrigued because that is exactly what I was when I went to a yearly conference with my sister in 1997 called the Psychology of Health, Immunity and Disease. My sister is a Doctor in Atlanta and is very much into education. I was not signed up for the conference which was very pricey. I was going to find plenty to do while she was educating herself all day.
However, when she was signing up she asked me. Hey, if you want to attend I will pay for it. You can pick your own lectures/workshops to go to. I was pretty excited about it because like I said, it was very expensive at about 1,000 dollars and I love lectures. Even if I have never heard of a topic I like to try and figure it out. I won’t go into all of the details of this conference, just one that has stuck with me to this day.
OMG, we had so much fun. Later that evening over dinner we picked our lectures and workshops. The keynote speaker was Christiane Northrup, M.D., and the entire group was invited to that. Her lecture was life changing for me. OK, let me try to move on. As I was perusing the speakers Rupert Sheldrake jumped off the page. The lecture was titled:
MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS –
DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME
Check! I was first in line for this lecture and sat on the front row. My sister went with me. The talk was fascinating and Rupert was captivating. I loved every second of it. I bought his book: DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME
I also had him sign it. I followed him to the elevator and had kind of a groupie moment. I though he was fascinating, smart and he had a british accent. He was such a nice and kind man and just brilliant.
This is the summary on his website of Morphic fields. It does not really get into the details of the book but you will enjoy reading I think! It is kind of dry, but the book is much better. This just kind of gives you some background on the subject.
MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS
An Introduction
by Rupert Sheldrake
In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE and THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST, I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was engaged in research in developmental biology, and was reinforced by reading Charles Darwin, for whom the habits of organisms were of central importance. As Francis Huxley has pointed out, Darwin’s most famous book could more appropriately have been entitled The Origin of Habits.
Morphic fields in biology
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields. The same arguments apply to the development of animals. Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields.
All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not?
Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us.
Many organisms live as free cells, including many yeasts, bacteria and amoebas. Some form complex mineral skeletons, as in diatoms and radiolarians, spectacularly pictured in the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel. Just making the right proteins at the right times cannot explain the complex skeletons of such structures without many other forces coming into play, including the organizing activity of cell membranes and microtubules.
Most developmental biologists accept the need for a holistic or integrative conception of living organization. Otherwise biology will go on floundering, even drowning, in oceans of data, as yet more genomes are sequenced, genes are cloned and proteins are characterized.
I suggest that morphogenetic fields work by imposing patterns on otherwise random or indeterminate patterns of activity. For example they cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.
Morphogenetic fields are not fixed forever, but evolve. The fields of Afghan hounds and poodles have become different from those of their common ancestors, wolves. How are these fields inherited? I propose that that they are transmitted from past members of the species through a kind of non-local resonance, called morphic resonance.
The fields organizing the activity of the nervous system are likewise inherited through morphic resonance, conveying a collective, instinctive memory. Each individual both draws upon and contributes to the collective memory of the species. This means that new patterns of behaviour can spread more rapidly than would otherwise be possible. For example, if rats of a particular breed learn a new trick in Harvard, then rats of that breed should be able to learn the same trick faster all over the world, say in Edinburgh and Melbourne. There is already evidence from laboratory experiments (discussed in A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE) that this actually happens.
The resonance of a brain with its own past states also helps to explain the memories of individual animals and humans. There is no need for all memories to be “stored” inside the brain.
Social groups are likewise organized by fields, as in schools of fish and flocks of birds. Human societies have memories that are transmitted through the culture of the group, and are most explicitly communicated through the ritual re-enactment of a founding story or myth, as in the Jewish Passover celebration, the Christian Holy Communion and the American thanksgiving dinner, through which the past become present through a kind of resonance with those who have performed the same rituals before.
The memory of nature
From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space.
Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe.
If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance, the patterns of activity in self-organizing systems are influenced by similar patterns in the past, giving each species and each kind of self-organizing system a collective memory.
I believe that the natural selection of habits will play an essential part in any integrated theory of evolution, including not just biological evolution, but also physical, chemical, cosmic, social, mental and cultural evolution (as discussed in THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST ).
Habits are subject to natural selection; and the more often they are repeated, the more probable they become, other things being equal. Animals inherit the successful habits of their species as instincts. We inherit bodily, emotional, mental and cultural habits, including the habits of our languages.
Fields of the mind
Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision, as discussed in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists Papers on Staring
You can take part in a staring experiment yourself through this web site. Staring Experiments
The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication, as discussed in my book DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well.
In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then called; or that they have known who was calling before picking up the phone in a way that seems telepathic. Controlled experiments on telephone telepathy have given repeatable positive results that are highly significant statistically, as summarized in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT and described in detailed technical papers which you can read on this web site. Papers on Telepathy Telepathy also occurs in connection with emails, and anyone who is interested can now test how telepathic they are in the online telepathy test. Experiments Online
The morphic fields of mental activity are not confined to the insides of our heads. They extend far beyond our brain though intention and attention. We are already familiar with the idea of fields extending beyond the material objects in which they are rooted: for example magnetic fields extend beyond the surfaces of magnets; the earth’s gravitational field extends far beyond the surface of the earth, keeping the moon in its orbit; and the fields of a cell phone stretch out far beyond the phone itself. Likewise the fields of our minds extend far beyond our brains.
February 2005
END OF ARTICLE
Now I want to relate this to Chaps and Emma. I have done my own scientific studies on this topic with the help of my Dad. Sheldrake’s theory holds up every time.
When I go out to run errands I have my Dad come down and sit with the kids. I never have a specific time or day of doing this. I might go weeks and not test the theory.
Every single time I go out Chaps or Emma or both of them together will get up about 5 minutes prior to me returning, again, at no specific time. They will wait by the window and cry. My Dad will know for a fact I am about to drive up. The test results are 100 percent.
My Dad cannot get over it. My Mom is usually with me. I love how Rupert wrote that,
“There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication.”
Wow – how about that? I had to share. I hope you enjoyed your lecture in this basset hound town master series!
My Mom always asks the kids, “What are you thinking”. I tell her that they know what you are thinking, so just think LOVE!
Life changing I tell you, life changing.
More telepathy later……Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and recognizing picture lovers!!! LOL
Well, when you capture magic you have to run with it. My friend and graphic designer captured this shot of her son, Brandon with my kids. Brandon was making a mini snow man on my back deck. You can see it sitting on the railing. The kids really want that carrot nose.
Remember our Holiday card?
Voila – a little creativity and a lot of photo shop and it’s magic I tell you, MAGIC!
More Magic Later……Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and wanting to see our 2004 Holiday Card! It is really an all time favorite! I sure hope you like it!
It was the first card that I did after I rescued Chaps and Emma. I refer to rescuing them because Chaps was living in a breeding, show dog kennel very lonely and Emma was the runt of her litter. Prior to picking up Chaps I asked the breeders what his favorite toy was, and they said that he had never had a toy.
Well, our Chaps loves toys now!!!!!!!
You have to click on this picture to get WOWED!
Chaps was so lonely, living a very sad life. He was in a small kennel with no toys and a small mat for a bed. The enclosure was a metal building that shook with the TX weather. Thank God I got him out of that environment.
When my Mom and I saw him our hearts sank. We could not gather him up quick enought and get him out. The kennel was clean but very sad. It looked liked a pound.
I had come to get Emma as well. Her breeder told me she had bad eyes, but it meant nothing. I wondered if she was full of it. I was not going to leave without Chaps or her. We made a bee line out the door with both of them.
Peace on Earth………Good will to hounds!
More later…….Cat, Chaps and Emma
Howllo Fellow Hound and girls having fun lovers!
OMG – I have never seen basset hound ears do what Scully’s did! It is enchanting, elegant, and superior! Scully brings a winter wonderland to everyone who loves her! I am thrilled to have her in my life!
Enjoy this video, pass it along and make everyone you know smile!
I was being a bit bah humbug today until I saw this and Scully made me all about the season!
Thank you Scully……
More girls having fun later……Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
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