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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite dog breed and why? [View all]wnylib
(21,421 posts)a half beagle, half basset (bassle?) that we named Beau. He had the long basset ears and the quirky habit of swinging his ears to catch one in his mouth.
Beau was 2 years old when we got him from the Humane Society. They said he was a stray. I think he had never lived indoors bc he was not housebroken and rejected all rules of indoor dog behavior. Laddie took it upon himself to tattle on Beau whenever he broke a rule, like peeing on the kitchen floor or swiping food from the table behind my back.
Beau was also an escape artist. Always figured a way out of our fenced in yard and Laddie would follow him to round him up.
But Beau's funniest behavior was his reaction to snow. He was...um...well hung. Did not like squatting in the snow for bowel movements and freezing his well hungness. So he took a long time to trample down a wide circle before squatting. One time, when the snow was deep, he lifted a front paw and licked it, whimpering. I thought it was injured and carried him awkwardly back to the porch. Once I set him down to check his paw, he walked on it with no problem. He just didn't like stepping in the snow.