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As you may or may not recall, last year we had a little incident where Fenway managed to make his way up onto the roof. Today mrs tbogg was preparing to go up on the deck for a little sunbathing, left the door open, and… yeah. He did it again. It took the two of us going out to get him (keeping in mind that mrs tbogg is so afraid of heights that she walks down the middle of piers), a few tiles were broken, but we reeled him in again.
We’re like the worst pet owners ever.
On the plus side he seemed suitably chastened and spent the rest of the afternoon up there with her (on the deck, not the roof) baking in the sun.
Unfortunately, no pictures taken again ("Just wait there while I go grab my camera honey! I’m sorry? — Do what to myself?") which is probably just as well for when one of the neighbors calls the authorities. So instead here’s a picture I recently received from Gene Lyons of basset Fred hanging out with four month-old Buster the cow. Or bull. Or whatever.
So that’s what a working basset looks like. At least he’s suitably on the ground. Or hay. Or whatever.
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I’m having a little trouble picturing the architecture that would allow Fenway to get from a deck suitable for sunbathing to an inaccessible roof. Does this involve some kind of stealthy climbing that a short-legged dog can manage? Or does he have powers of levitation? Do you have to make a dangerous ascent to retrieve him, or can he be lured back with suitably delicious doggy snacks? We need pictures, TBogg! Preferably video, and a CADCAM three-dimensional blueprint of your house to show us how he does it.
is he climbing a ladder ?? i had a dog who would climb ladders once .. he could go “up” but not down …
he;d get into the hay loft .. and we’d lower him down with the rope and pully at the loft door in the front of the barn ..
on our third “lowering of the hound” .. the makeshift rope harness we’d fashioned came loose .. and the dog dropped “freefall” for the last eight feet .. he landed with a big “oomph” ..and never climbed that loft ladder again …
Shew! I’m so glad to hear he was up on the roof this afternoon.
I’d been watching A&E’s playing of “Jesus Camp” and been convinced the family in it had kidnapped Fenway! You can see him skulking around their feet, just after they “Pledge alligence to the Christian Flag…”
Fred Basset? No points for originality, but he’s a very handsome boy.
As for no shots of Fenway on the roof, perhaps a roof-cam is in order. You never know what excitement it may catch.
So which one is the Bassett?
I see a basset has joined the neighborhood critters in the local park. While all the other dogs were chasing each other and the knee-biter humans in the play area, the basset headed for the shade and plopped down. Do they have a dog-narcolepsy gene or something?
This looks like one of those “mother cat adopts baby squirrel” pics.