Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and kids around the nation lovers.  Well…..ya gotta love this kid.

Collin Allen rides his basset hound “Charlie” using his tractor and wagon that Santa brought him for Christmas. Collin is the son of Jared and Emily Allen of Cheneyville. COURTESY PHOTO

Man, this kid would come in handy when I visit schools with the Mayor.  Could you imagine us coming into an auditorium with this get up?  Love it!

More loving kids and their hounds later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and wall of honor lovers….Today Grandma and I went to the copy center at Staples to pick up the poster art I had designed for our beloved Mayor.  This guy was working on it!

He placed it on foam core and then laminated it.

I waited too long to showcase his hard work.

I love it!

When we got home we started arranging all of his ribbons!

Grandpa (Wayne Rudert) would be proud!

Wow there were so many we ran out of room.

I know I showed you guys all of the ribbons but this is howl they will fit on the poster.

I will hang it in my office tomorrow.  On the wall where Grandpa and Chaps are pictured!

I work hard in my office and Chaps worked hard for his ribbons.  It will be a great inspiration for me.  I admire Chaps for being such a good boy.  Bless his heart. The show circuit is a hard one.

More giving credit where credit is due later…..Love, Cat, Champion Chaps and Emma….

PS, notice howl the word Champion also has the word Chap(s) in it?  No surprise there!  hehehe

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Mystery Lovers…..Well I have been very puzzled for the past several night as to what is going on???  During the middle of the night into the early morning the Mayor has been jolted out of bed over and over again.  He jumps up and leaps out of bed and then he puts on a brave face and crawls back in.  After about the 3rd or 4th time he sometimes vomits due to his fear.  Oh I feel so bad for himz.  I have racked my brains and checked every inch of his body and the bed.

I want himz to rest comfortably!

So, then it hit me….Jolted out of bed?????

See that blankee wrapped around Emma?

See this other blankee?  This is the large one we sleep with as well.

They turn into static electricity factories over night.  Not only does Emma throw off tons of heat but she scratches during the night generating static electricity.  The Mayor is really being jolted out of bed!  We all know howl delicate he is.

So, I am going to do an experiment tonight.  I am going to cover emma with a thick quilt and see if that can cut down on the shock factor.

We need to get back to this!

And no vomit!

More loving figuring it out later.  I will let the dear residents know.

Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Facebook find of the day lovers…..

I was sniffing around over at facebook and saw this!

Just a lazy day, hangin’ with the feline.  Again, I have no idea who this “friend” is, I could not read the language but we really don’t need words, do we?

More loving lazy friends later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and making your home fit for hounds lovers……

I ran across this article on the interweb today and thought I would share:)

Designer Dog Houses, Humans Allowed

In a remodeled Kobe, Japan, apartment, the firm installed a special ventilation system to facilitate hair removal and odor-absorbing materials in a cabinet-turned-kennel for a basset hound.

Another Japanese designer, FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, drafted a dog-centered design that features an under-house dog space, accessed from the backyard by a sliding glass door, with windows that peek into the interior of the home.

There’s no doubt that dogs are on Americans’ minds — just under half of American households have a dog, according to the American Pet Products Association (APPA) — however, home designers in America are behind the dog-friendly design curve.

Low entryways or windows for dogs let everyone enjoy the view.

Photo Credit: FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Michael Kimsal, a North Carolina-based Web developer, has been searching for pet-friendly house plans since 2006, but has yet to find any, which he said was shocking. “A big issue for my wife and I,” said Kimsal, “is that we want to have a private area for our dogs to be in the house, and we haven’t found any plans that specifically address this.”

Regardless of an apparent high demand, dog-friendly home designs that go beyond post-design add-ons like doggy doors, resilient flooring and fabrics remain a fringe idea in the U.S. for architects and builders, if not homeowners.

It’s not that Americans are afraid to blow the lid of the dog accessory bin: The APPA estimates that Americans spent more than $50 billion on their pets in 2011. “In my 30 years in the architectural business, I’ve never heard of a pet-friendly home design,” said Joel Davis, owner of Architectural Designs, an American company that offers a reference of more than 21,000 home plans to prospective homebuilders.

An elegant alternative to a dog sleeping on the couch. Photo Credit: Fauna + Design.

Real estate agents in the U.S. cater to the pet-loving crowd through the Pet Realty Network. Jane Miller, a Realtor in Charleston, SC, who is a member of the network, recalls a multilevel home she sold that had an unused elevator shaft, which the new owners spent a lot of money to restore to allow their old basset hound, past stair-climbing age, to move easily upstairs and down.

Other Realtors who belong to the Pet Realty Network, like Valerie Crowell, in Walnut Creek, CA, mentioned homes with modified entryways to accommodate dirty dogs. “One house had a mudroom off the kitchen with a drain in the middle and a tiled-in dog wash,” she said. “It was very cool.”

Though these are exceptions.

Dog owners will ultimately decide if it’s finally time to move beyond diamond-encrusted collars and take their love for dogs to its full-blown conclusion: a home design that fully incorporates that furry, four-legged member of the family.

End of Article….

Hope you enjoyed it.  I liked the part about the elevator for the old basset hound!  Now those are my kind of folks!

When I bought our home it was totally renovated with hounds in mind.  All decisions were made with the advantage to the hound.  My Dad and Mom both agreed.  Life is so much more pleasant when routines run smoothly.  I also think that the hound gets a big satisfaction out of doing things for themselves.  On a side note, howl about that hound toilet?  That was crazy but I totally get it.  I think Marilyn at House Of Puddles needs a few of those!  LOL

More loving living with hounds later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hounds and Hounds in the News Lovers….Yesterday, I saw this story on a basset hound board I am on.  It is about a basset in a new movie.

This guy is named CH Wagtails Johnny Cash, CD. CDX, aka Cash, and he is in a movie called Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice.

Tickets to Cash’s movie to be shown Friday, Feb. 17 (8:00pm) at the Derby City Film Festival at the Clifton Center can be purchased for $7.00 on-line or beginning at 4:00PM on Fri., 2/17 at the box office at the Clifton Center in Louisville.

The movie looks really cute and here is the trailer for it.  I found it on YouTube.

Good work Cash.  You are looking good.  Himz a sitter upper to boot!

More loving star hounds later….Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Champions, especially Chaps Wayne Rudert, Lovers….

Not only is Chaps the Mayor of his own town but he is also a Champion amongst hounds.  Yes, Chaps won his AKC Champion show title back in 2001 when he was just a young pretty boy of only 2.

He must has spent most of life on the road to win this many ribbons.

I made sure when I adopted him I also got his ribbons which he worked very hard for.

The only thing he misses about that life is the roar of the crowd;)

I have this little frame on my mantle.

FRIEND FOREVER FAITHFUL….CHAMPION OF MY HEART

So….for years I have been thinking of a way to display his hard work and efforts.

I designed this art piece and I will have it made into a poster this week.

I am going to hang all of his ribbons around the edges.

I am going to hang it in my office on this wall…..

Perfect!

More looking forward to showing all the residents later…..Love, Cat, Champion Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Pink and Orange Sunday Lovers….

Wow, this morning was so pretty.  I woke up and the living room was bathed in pink.

Now for a closer look…..

Even the Mayor was bathed in Pink.  Just stunning…..

More hoping your morning was pink and orange later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and weekend lovers.  Even though this was a short week it some howl seemed long to me.  Maybe it was because there was no rushing to and fro for the holidays.  Ahhhhhhhhh…..time to rest and rest we will!

More loving the weekend and pink blankees later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and cute little story lovers…..I was sniffing around the internet this morning and ran across this one out of New Mexico.

Family dog becomes prime suspect in theft

Posted at: 01/04/2012 10:55 PM
By: Eddie Garcia, KOB Eyewitness News 4

Coraline

Dogs always get blamed for eating homework, but how about a $4,500 wedding ring?

It happened to an Albuquerque family and when nature would not pass the ring back, they had to find another way.

Rachelle Atkinson has a habit of leaving her wedding ring on her night stand and in the morning, she puts it back on – that was until a few weeks ago.

“I went to go put it on and it was nowhere to be found,” she said.

Rachelle and her husband Scott searched everywhere but eventually started to suspect a thief, their 10-month old basset hound, Coraline.

“She was the only one in our room so we immediately looked at her and she looked guilty,” Atkinson said.

For the next 10 days, Scott had to go through a lot of Coraline’s droppings searching for the treasure.

“I had to go through all the ‘poos’ everyday and squish them up and make sure there were no hard lumps in there so yeah, that wasn’t much fun,” said Scott Atkinson.

It turns out he did it all for nothing. X-rays showed the ring wasn’t coming out on its own.

“So we took her to the vet and there it was lying in the bottom of her stomach and it was just too heavy to pass so we had to take her in for surgery,” Atkinson said.

The vet had to go fishing.

She first had to knock Coraline out then feed an instrument down her throat into her stomach and after a few hours they got the ring back.

Now Coraline is back to her old self – of course getting into trouble once again.

Rachelle now hides her $4,500 ring out of sight while Coraline is off munching away at anything she can find.

“She’s a good dog and she’s just a wonderful addition to our family but we’ll never forget this – the ring and her have gotten more expensive,” Atkinson said.

The vet said Basset Hounds have tendency of eating rocks, which means Coraline has really expensive taste.

End of story

A few comments here – I am not sure where they got the idea that Basset Hounds have a tendency of eating rocks.  Not a big deal, but I guess it adds to the story.  I have never had a rock eater in over 20 years.  I did however see a hound at a waddle with a cloth muzzle wearing a t-shirt that said,
“I don’t bite, I eat rocks”.  So, what do I know…..

Make sure you watch the video.  It is really cute.  I was wondering if they named her Coraline after the cartoon character.  Betcha they did!

More news off the wires later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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