So far so good. And that handsome young man is still showing more intelligence then Republicans who think Trump is a reason to get excited – so yeah, normal.

Always love seeing your boys, and the update is much appreciated. Many thanks.

Our vet swears most bad things that happen inside dogs comes from gluten in some dog food. When we unknowingly started giving our shepherd treats that had wheat in them, all hell broke loose. Vet suggested that was the problem, and when we stopped – things got better. Hmmm.

Thanks for the update!

You mentioned that Wembley’s difficulties might mean he has to be neutered. Since the problem doesn’t seem to be neurological, or pathological at all (but might be a food allergy), can he keep his balls?

I hear $1500 ThingaMaMixers make The Best doggy food.

TBogg, when you buy one will you please write a post about it?

Hurrah! Normal dottiness + allergies are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than epilepsy!

If the food turns out to be the problem, there may well be an underlying issue like Chinese impurities problems…

Beautiful, beautiful boys.

Hope switching foods works for Wembley. I’m now a big believer in grain free dogfood. Ours used to eat an expensive mail order food (nearly $2/lb) but with 3 big dogs we were going thru 40 lbs in 3 weeks, so I started buying a cheaper brand. Within a month, 2 of the dogs had yeast infections in their ears, something they’d never had before. I changed to a high protein (34%), grain-free food (@ $1.67/lb, not too bad), and yeast infections are gone.

They are both really stunning dogs.

There are a few bassets in my neighborhood, but none have such expressive faces.

They appear to be built low to the ground.

In the first photo Wembley’s legs seem like you could put a jack in there and crank him up a six inches. Mebbe that is the problem, pinched nerves?

Bogg manor is known in the basset world as heaven.

Nice roll of neck-fat on Wembley.

Human legs in photo #1 have really long shorts on. Apparently El Rushbo is correct about that global warming hoax.

>> such as when he drags his bed around the room stopping every once in awhile to bark at it

This mental picture tickles me so much. Thanks once again, and all the best to the boys.

Thank you for this. After an evening of reading about rape statistics and dudes cutting off their wives fingers. It’s nice to sign of with pictures hounds. Good Luck with the food my coonhounds live on some pretty fancy vittles. They don’t seize but the cheap stuff doesn’t agree with them.

Oh, food allergy. That actually sounds like good news. Certainly compares favorably to other anticipated possibilities.
Thanks for letting us know.

We do worry, y’know.

Lovely pickchers, as usual.
Scritches for the boys.

TBogg, perhaps you need to get a $1500 Mixmaster to prepare Wembley’s meals. What would McArdle do?!

such as when he drags his bed around the room stopping every once in awhile to bark at it

I don’t suppose there’s any chance this could be videotaped. Because that sounds mighty entertaining.

Very glad to hear Wembley is “normal” and hope the change up to the Miss Mew-equivalent elitist dog food does the trick.

P.S. Wembley is BIG isn’t he. It may be a trick of the eye but he appears to be larger than Fenway. Love the crossed tails.

You need to add pink Himalayan salt to your Amazon wish list, so someone can buy you some to put on Wembley’s food.

…Man, I dig that dog’s glower power. Would that I could scowl so well.

And Fenway looks quite happy. Or concerned, I can’t quite tell.

Love your boys. I had a beautiful Golden Retriever with so many allergies it was like he had doggie lupus or something. I switched to feeding him raw because nothing else was working. It didn’t help. We ultimately lost him at age six. But heck, going raw was no more expensive than feeding him high-grade kibble and I was sort of taken by the idea of what would happen if you actually fed dogs what they were designed to eat, via evolution?

Anyhow, I now have a Bernese Mountain Dog and a Bassett. I buy ground hamburger, chicken backs and a few other things from a wholesale meat company, mix in a few supplments and that’s it. You can make anything into a fussy fetish, so avoid the people who do that with dog food. There’s a great book out on the subject by Lew Olson, Raw and Natural Nutrition for Dogs. Lew is a hilarious, no-nonsense Rottweiler breeder from Texas. She keeps it simple. My dogs are thriving.

On the other hand, if you don’t want to go this direction, buy whatever works and keep enjoying those gorgeous Bassets. Life is too short to worry about this stuff.

I do love Thursday night Basset Blogging

Fenway, dear boy, kindly take a few minutes to teach your kid brother to pull up his socks. Girls always appreciate it when a guy makes the extra effort to be dapper.

Atta boy!

I had exactly the same response to that line.

I have my 8 YO Golden trained to accept approximately 10% of whatever I happen to be having for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Saves energy on the pre-wash cycle, too. So far, so good. In between, he’ll eat dried dogfood….but we’ve learned to buy something different every time we refill. He seems to know every time we start another bag of the same food and immediately goes on strike. So he’s trained us to rotate through 3 or 4 brands.

Oh yeah, we’ve also trained him to expect a doggy peanut butter pop every time the grocery bags come in the house. It wasn’t really difficult.

Wembley’s legs are quite wrinkly—does that mean he’s got a height-spurt coming?

And about this bed he drags around…all your sleeping-dogs-lying photos have them on your bed. Is Wembley’s bed just a novelty he jumps into when he hears your key in the doorlock?

Me too. I keep seeing Fenway as the ‘little one’ and thinking he’s the youngster.

Wembley’s one of them XL model bassets. The Bogg family will be able to hitch him up to the sleigh by next Christmas.

I’m curious to know if you asked Taits if they’ve seen this before (i.e., the seizures; crazy-ass bed-dragging is not necessarily outside the norm for bassets).

Yo T!

Wonder how fuckin’ crazy things would get if a Thursday Night Basset Blogging was FDL front paged?

Sad puppy eyes? “O’s” fault.

Big feet? “O” sleeping with Wall Street fat cats.

See how “O” has chains restraining them? What’s next, pepper spray?

My dog eats only Beef, Chicken, or Pork, with milkbones and chewies thrown in. And cheese.
I’m talking beef skirt stake, whole roasted chickens, and pork chops….and she still gets a yeast infection.(Ear/Eye).
I don’t think its the food.

What beautiful pictures, and look at how big Wembley is now–he can’t fit underneath Fenway anymore. Thank you for sharing, and for giving us an update on Wembley–hope is is feeling better and all health mysteries become clear very soon.

Molokai likes to drag his bed around too, though I’ve never known him to bark at it. Must be a basset thing…they sure are weird.

Glad to hear about Wembley, hope they can figure out what he’s allergic to so he never gets it again.

Hey guys, Maggoo’s mom here….. What have you been feeding Wembley? After all of my research when Wilson was diagnosed with lymphoma, I had switched to the high protein diet of Taste of the Wild. Now we are giving the dogs Blue Buffalo, grain free. It seems that dogs just don’t have the enzymes to digest it. Corn is the worst ingredient, and found as the #1 ingredient in the cheaper brands of kibble. The Blue I feed does have brown rice, but lamb is the first ingredient listed. I hope Wembly’s diet is the solution for you! Love the pictures you take!