Ah, THAT’s the Beckham we know and fear! Nice glower, dude.

As for Fenway, how many times can one say “ZOMG!!!! He’s teh cute!”? Probably one fewer than that, but it’s too late now.

And he IS friggin’ adorable. Get that dog to a talent agent, pronto.

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So, the remains of the late Mr. Baseball are still lying around the living room? I feel your pain, TBogg family, but you need to get closure and move on. Mr. Soccer Ball and Mr. Chewed-up Sofa Cushion need your attention.

Jeeze. VonZeppelin is some kinda neat-freak.

Letting the late Mr. Baseball hang around is good for the boys. If they liked him stuffed they’d have left him that way.

Here’s a theory about that chewed cushion: Terrorists, probably of the illegal alien variety, came in and chewed the couch cushion while you were at work. Fenway is now behaving in the most responsible way by guarding against a repeat offense.

And now we know why Beckham gets the evil looks — he’s pissed because you call me a pinhead. You better watch your back, Tbogg.

I see what’s happened. Beckham has become Satchmo and Fenway has become Beckham. (That said, Beckham retains the grumpitude we’ve all come to know and adore. He will never have the Saint like visage of Satch, but we know he’s a big marshmallow on the inside. Right? )

Btw, thank Christ the bassets are on display because it was a little unsettling clicking in and seeing that dipshit’s face from Stupid Ohio on the Youtube.

When I first saw the main picture I thought Fenway had gotten a bone tattoo on his chest. I thought, ruh-roh! the family TBogg is gonna have trouble with THAT ONE.

Has Fenway been introduced to teh toenail sling yet?

And yes, the problem of huge neck and tiny head makes a harness a good thing. Arthur hates his. He gets a choke chain instead when we go out. He can slip out of that too, but not so easily.

I want to lie in toenail sling. Give me one of those stupid hardhats with the beer can feeders, point me at video feed of Rocktober baseball, and I just might become lovable.

OR at least I’d be happy.

As I stand here, boiling my last leather shoe to make soup, the sight of those zen-like bassets make it all OK.

Fenway: “Defender of Kushions”. Beckham: “Precious Pinhead & Sage of SD”.
Me: Happy Basset Fan. {{TBogg Bassdom}} Friday is now an officially good day.

Ooo, TBogg dad. Not pin head, just pointy to house that mighty bwain. The attitude hemisphere appears to be particularly weighty.

Are bassets prone to the same disc problems that dachshunds are (as a result of the whole short leg/long back thing). I think they might be, in which case you might want to talk to the vet about whether a harness would be a good idea for Fenway too. Regular collars put stress on their spines when they pull and lunge while on leashes.

It’s not that Beckham is a pinhead… Gracious! Casting such aspersions… I’m shocked. Some dogs go in for quantity of cranium, other wiser dogs go in for quality of cranium. (Also, it’s easier to slip a collar with a really quality cranium.) Glad the young dog child is back to his chewed-cushion-guarding self. How is the poor bone-bruised human child doing?

Fenway is almost too much of teh cute! Love the glare of Beckham…he’s adorable, too…in his own snarky way.

Speaking of Fenway & chewing… Some years ago, a friend spent an inordinate amount of money saving her sighthound’s teeth from a mysterious root-deadening infection. After several months of weekly four-hour round trips to the certified canine endodontist, she discovered that the dog was squeezing behind some heavy furniture (through a space not apparently large enough to admit a well-grown hamster) and chewing on an electrical wire. This seemed such a classic “how dumb doggies can be” anecdote that I mentioned it at a dog-training class meeting. One of my fellow trainers turned out to be a pediatric oral surgeon, who said that the tendency of human toddlers to chew through lamp cords had put his kids through college!

Apparently certain household members with insufficient experience of the whole ‘actions have consequences’ theory will chew on a live electrical wire, get a shock just strong enough to be *interesting*, and keep going back for further experiments. (Rather like 10-year-olds trying cigarettes, or freshmen playing beer pong.) Repeated shocks to the mouth tissues eventually damage cells enough that opportunistic infections set in, or tooth roots die & decay. But of course nothing shows up on x-rays, and it can be nearly impossible to spot the entry-exit burn marks, especially since mouth tissues heal really quickly.

So… just in case, you may want to check all the household wires (don’t forget the kitchen appliances & the hairdryers) for chew marks. Especially since Fenway seems to be more interested in climbing than your previous dogs, and may have been able to reach wires you’d come to consider ‘dog proof’.

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