Arthur LIKES teh Shar-pei mix!

The St. Bernard mix seems, well, uh…difficult and/or an accomplishment. If not done that way then…for the love of Zeus why?

i actually kinda liked the husky variation… probably a completely useless creature (me? pull a sled? you are joking, of course!) but good looks.

Why are you moving Fenway when he is so clearly so very comfortable? Heartless.

You can make up for it, tbogg, with an extra big biscuit to Fenway, and a basset hound and schnauzer mix dog pic for me (the lack of which on the mix page was entirely confusing, why on earth would the best dog in the world be overlooked).

We are expanding our pack with a freshly rescued schnauzer soon, and our excitement is not even a tiny bit contained. A blog may be necessary, so that I might slather the interwebs with cute pooch pics.

If it was a male basset hound, obviously he climbed the ladder of opportunity.

Love. Love conquers all.

So many versions of wrong. The dalmation’s speckled ears are purty, though.

War. Bitches.

Ooops, carryover from last thread….

Very, very softy too, I bet. Nice earz.

Some of those mixes I find rather worrying. And the second Dalmations made me suspect Sharpie … though the first pup is adorable

Is that an official Breitbart Drool Blanket Fenway’s resting on?

Great pic for the boneless.

I love the way TBogg says Fenway won’t get down “when asked.” I always thought one was supposed to order the doggies to do stuff. Ask? Heavens. What a softy.
Bet the objects of TBogg’s snark would never believe he was such a mooshy guy with his dogs.

Those mixes…some adorable, some…wrong-ish. Such short legs on bodies that need longer ones…but some are..adorable. The very first one…cute, but the ears just seem too short!

Just goes to show, you can’t let a randy basset roam on his own. The beagle is cute, but then beagles and bassets have loads in common, especially in the attitude department.

Love the Fenster on the Chairster. And I have experienced this bonelessness. It’s double fun when they’re on your lap and you need to get up.

I saw what I think was a basset-German Shepherd mix once. Shepherd head and coloring, the rest of it was … kind of close to the ground, for a German Shepherd.

Cats do it, but they don’t usually go boneless, they just turn up the gravity so they weigh a lot more.

With Fenway’s ineffable, unluggable beauty burning in mind’s eye, I was looking forward to the link (despite your warning): yeah, a disappointment. Usually it’s fun to explore the fine points of dog distinctions that “mixes” expose – distinctions equally available if you look closely at the different “established breeds.” All of them: They run, they point, they sniff the air, they sniff the ground, they dig into the ground, they run ahead, they stay behind, they do they do they do, long legs, shorts legs, touch necks, long sleek necks, drooping ears, pointy ears, short coats, long coats, so on so on, in infinitely subtle variations (on the basis of so few, such small genetic differences).
I’m off to lure English springer from the couch — no, without my noticing, she’s taken herself near me here in the kitchen in that LLBean bed she loves. To the mudroom for the night, dog! A good run in the morning. (And wow — it’s like late April here — running so easy over damp grass rather than the ice-ridden snow we should have.)

Love that look in Fenway’s eye: the “I bet he’s gonna want this chair” look.

Whereas Wembley would have an “I bet he’s gonna want MY chair” look.

I will take issue with those who find the strange basset hybrids unappealing. I love mutts! Our dachsobeagle Sam is now in Dog Heaven, but his brother Max the semi-greyhound still shares our house. I rejoice in the progeny that these moments of abandoned doggy passion have produced.

We finally bought a new car(always used ones before) but never had and likely never will have a purebred. Some of those dogs just look wrong though. Then again Bassets are beautiful but hardly built for anything but Awwwws and laughs. Other than the Bloom County Basset first strike system(or missile defense system. A quick googling didn’t turn t up…)that is.

I think you must be speaking of the X-15 Cruise Basselope (overall cost $6.95)!

http://www.caerleon.us/hb/pics.php3?file_id=4

I also remember an interesting cross breed on the strip, Rosebud the basselope and HodgePodge the jackrabbit had an affair and she gave birth to 64 Jackabasselopes…..

I loved Bloom County especially Binkley’s anxiety closet.

That’s it! I love the all terrain drive and exhaust systems.