My Favorite bed, too
This is Romeo, our almost 2 year old. He is a dwarf sized basset and has crippled front legs but is just a dynamite personality.
He also loves this bed - luckily we have 2 of these rainbow beanbag beds.
Have a great weekend,
Kim

My Favorite Bed
Hello my name is Speedy. I came to the ranch in February of 2006 from Oklahoma. My owner had gone to jail and the attorney involved in the case did not want me to end up in a high kill shelter so he searched until he found this wonderful place for me to live. You see not every one wants to give a home to a blind basset, but I got really lucky and came to this basset retirement ranch.
I got a ride from a volunteer who flew me to Kansas in a small passenger plane. I was totally blind when I arrived here but I still had to have surgery to remove my painful, diseased eye. It hurt me so badly that I rubbed my head to make the pain to go away.
Now I am fit as a fiddle. I have learned my way around the house and yard. I know that when I go out the dog door that I turn left to use the ramp.
For the first few months here I did not venture around too much in the house - I stayed in the dining room and slept under the piano. My dad, Bruce, plays the piano and my mom is learning.
Now I wander around the whole house searching out the most comfy of beds. This is one of my favorites.
Have a great day,
Speedy

Meet our new boy Watson. Watson was relinquished by his owner because they have a new baby coming. He is almost 7 years old and just the nicest boy. He is getting along famously with the house hounds and has adjusted to the dog door.
He is very adoptable but is welcome to spend the rest of his life with us on the ranch if a suitable home cannot be found.
Have a great day,
Kim

NOT A BASSET but....
we wanted you all to meet one of our other residents. His name is Otoe and he is the 2-leggers retired quarter horse. He thinks he is a basset but he has a terrible time with those ears.
We have tried to tell him that biscuits are better than grass but he insists on mowing the lawn.
He really likes it when Mom gives him apples from the apple trees. He is 23 years old.
signed,
the hounds

What a way to spend a rainy fall evening. Snoozing on the sofa. This is Willie and Philbert catching some zzzzzzzzzz's while they wait for monday nite football to start.

Welcome to BassetsRus blog. We hope to post from day to day about life here at the ranch with nearly 20 bassets hounds. We are a retirement /sanctuary community and share our house and lives with numerous bassets.

We focus primarily on senior citizens but just recently had the pleasure of fostering an 8 week old bouncing basset boy for nearly a month. We named him Woody and he went to his forever home this past weekend.

He managed to keep all the senior houndies very busy and they spent a lot of time informing him of the proper ways of "bassetude". Since his leaving they are resting uninterupted.

Have a great day,
Kim and the hounds