I feel the need to brag a bit —
Sheldon is 4 — he was our pandemic puppy because I really (really!) needed something to take care of — but he has actually taken care of me. 🙂
The kids are older and they don’t need me as much.
No one in my real life understands bassets and their personalities…. so that is why today I feel like I need to gush over this guy.
He is a crate sleeping dog. I knew that he could be destructive and counter surf so we decided to crate train him as a puppy. I slept next to the crate for the first week or so then moved farther away, used a baby monitor, etc etc.
Now he LOVES his crate. He goes in at 9 or 10 and stays until woken up at 6:30 or 7 am.
Last night we forgot to put him in his crate. Completely forgot.
This morning, I get up at 5 like normal, make coffee, do some kitchen things and sit down at the computer to work.
I hear very very low basset hound whining.
So I figure he drank a lot of water yesterday (hottish day and I gave him ice cubes with parm cheese in them so he’d really have extra water 😉 ) so I un-do the house alarm and then go to let him out of his crate.
he is LOOSE on the playroom couch. He could have gotten up at ANY TIME but instead he just stayed there — like such a GOOD BOY until I told him it was time to get up.
I think this is just the most amazing and craziest wonderful thing and I’m just so proud of him!!!
lol. thank you for letting me get this off my chest and brain!!
edit: this is my own photo. 🙂
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