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[jazzies mom]

I have just signed up after reading the forum for over an hour. Excellent information.
I am Jazzminn's mommy. She is a 7 month old beautiful (I should say so myself) small basset. She is the first one I have owned myself. I can remember as a little girl, parents ALWAYS had basset hounds. I will post pictures later tonight. So when my one of my daughters and my husband got her for my birthday I could not have been more thrilled.

I do have a question though that I could not find in the forums. Can Bassets be depressed over someone having to go back out over the road? My husband is a truck driver and is not home very much (approximately 34 hours every 1-2 weeks). This week he was home for 4 days and left to go back over the road on Wednesday. All of the sudden yesterday, she stopped eating, won't bark, and is moping around the house. She perks up slightly when my cell phone goes off to his ring tone. She is drinking and urinating as normal. She seems to have an upset tummy (vomiting) so I am going to go to the store and get some of the items I found in this forum to get her to eat. That is the only change in her routine. Sorry if that seems silly to have her on a routine. With my work schedule and job for that matter she seems happier with a routine.

She has such a happy personality and disposition that I am getting depressed for her.

Thank you for any assistance and a great website full of information.

[henry'smum]

Hello!!!!!!!!!

No its not silly to think they get depressed. My old Basset hound Humphrey used to get terribly mopey and 'teenage' if one of us went away. When we got back he would ignore us for a day then go back to normal. Henry fortunately doesnt mope but its been part of his daily life to be missing either mummy or daddy and nothing would upset his apetite nowadays!
Im pleased you are trying out some of the remedys for her tummy, let us know how it works out.
V

[Barney'spal]

I'm a newbie myself and am learning about bassets myself but got to wondering if your husband was home all day alone with her while you worked and she got used to the attention. Now he is gone and when you have to work she is adjusting to being alone again. Just a thought....everything I have read says that they really are very sensitive.

[bubbad]

If she is vomiting that is not part of being depressed.Keep a sharp eye on her bassets are known rock eaters,well,anything eaters for that matter. If the vomiting has not stopped in 24 hours get her to a vet,or if diarrhea starts got to the Vet better safe than sorry.

[Annie714]

Welcome to the forum! Looking forward to seeing pictures of little Jazzminn!

[Mikey T]

I agree with bubbad in first ruling out a medical issue. There are many stories her and else where of basset being dpressed on the death of another dog, people leaving etc. Personnally i have never seen that ion one of my dogs but i work hard to have the dog be more bonded to me so that might explain it or it could be each dog is individual and ackt differently or a thirds option is the other are projectiong thier own feeling onto the dog and seeing berhaviors that reaaly are not there. Probably it is a lot of each.

[houndmomma]

Hi and welcome to the group!!!!

Like everyone else has already said – absolutely they can be depressed – majorly depressed. I’ll give you two stories of our Lucy.

We got Lucy as a rescue – she was crated 23 ½ hours a day, every day for her first two years of life – because the woman said she was too much work. My husband would take her for two long walks ever day in the wood and let her chase all kinds of animals – and take her to our other house where we have a lot of land and let her run free. Needless to say she to her he was her savior. Fast forward a couple months and he had to go out of town for a week. She was fine the first day he was gone – I assumed it was because it was like he was at work or something – but then by the fist night she stopped eating – long story short she scared me to death. She literally couldn’t even walk by the end of the week – I had to carry her 85lbs outside to go to the bathroom. I had her to our vet EVERYDAY – they were running every test under the sun – along with X-rays and scans – and a big fat NOTHING!!! They were at a complete loss. The day he got back home – she ran up to him crying like nothing ever happened. We could only assume it was depression. Funny, ten years later – she’s my Velcro pup.

Ten weeks ago yesterday I lost our Flash – Lucy didn’t know life in our house without her. For the first two weeks after losing Flash we couldn’t get Lucy to go for a walk, she’s not eating much of anything anymore and not very excited at dinner time – which for her is something as she LIVES to eat. She sleeps a lot more and just hasn’t been herself. She’s starting to get a little better – but she is far from the girl we’ve grown to love. Again, it’s depression. It’s funny, Lucy sits on my lap and I rub her down and talk about Flash with her still – and sometimes when I say Flash’s name Lucy will let out a loud moan – I wonder does she really understand?

All this said – I would also first check with the vet to rule out a possible medical condition.

Again, welcome to the group and good luck…

Jen~