Category: basset

My Ginny just turned 1 on 5/13. She’s my first basset but my second hound! ❤️❤️❤️ her brother Hank is a 10 year old coon hound

The other day I was in the bathroom using the toilet, and in walddles my 1 1/2 yr old female basset. She goes right past me, into the shower, and pees. She only missed the drain by a couple of inches. I’ve only had her a week today so we are still getting to know each other. After laughing my head off, and cleaning the shower I just got to wondering if anyone else has seen or heard of another animal doing this. Now each morning when I let her out in the yard for her to go potty, I check and sure enough, there is pee around the drain. I asked her previous owner if she had trained her to do this, and she laughed and said she hadn’t. Has anyone heard of this before?

I have an 8 year old basset. She has been so active all her life…from living on a farm from 2018-2021, to running/walking with me when she was 5 years old, to hiking 5 km no problem (just recently). But lately, I’ve noticed some changes. A few years back she started getting basset bumps…which have really increased in size lately (we’re getting them removed next week). The bumps are large but she doesn’t flinch when we touch them. The vet has observed them and said they don’t seem like they could be cancer…but she’s also not acting like her normal self. She seems sad, depressed, and mopey-er than usual. She lies at the back door but doesn’t want to go outside no matter how often I open the door for her. She’s still excited about her walks but isn’t moving as quickly or gingerly as she used to. Is this just regular aging stuff??? Or should I be concerned with her change in behaviour? When did your basset start getting “old”? And when did you decide it was time to let go? (I know she’s not there yet, but I’m just curious)