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We are family of 3 living in Essex, we lost our beloved Douge de Bordeux in June 2014, which coincided with the birth of our daughter so we have waited 6 years for the time to be right. We are a dog lovers and now looking to add to our family
Whilst we adore DDBs they come with certain drawbacks ie 72kg of slobbering fur, and 4 sized 14 feet to clear up after
So we began our search for our new hound, we started with Bulldog (breathing to bad) then French Bull Dog (everyone's got them) Boston terrier (2 small and strange looking) then we looked closely at a Dachshund (but again too small) and then we decided on the Basset, since then we have watched hours of videos and read pages and pages of info, mostly telling us why we should not get one but everything about a Basset seems perfect for us and most of the bd traits can be found in a DDB so we are hoping we wont have to many surprises
My main 2 concerns are that we live in a town house and I have 3 garden rabbits that we adore, the rabbits are kept securely enclosed and my wife is very good with animals and will take charge of training from day one, i know this as i have been very well trained too......and the stairs will only be climbed at bedtime as we live on the ground floor 90% of the time
We are lucky that our front garden connects to the main park and nature reserve in our town so there is plenty of places to walk and my wife now works from home and we are pretty sure thus will become a permanent feature
So I will be lurking about here for the foreseeable future having a read to make sure we are doing the right thing and that we will be as best prepared as possible before we take the plunge
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Kindest regards
Stephen
We are family of 3 living in Essex, we lost our beloved Douge de Bordeux in June 2014, which coincided with the birth of our daughter so we have waited 6 years for the time to be right. We are a dog lovers and now looking to add to our family
Whilst we adore DDBs they come with certain drawbacks ie 72kg of slobbering fur, and 4 sized 14 feet to clear up after
So we began our search for our new hound, we started with Bulldog (breathing to bad) then French Bull Dog (everyone's got them) Boston terrier (2 small and strange looking) then we looked closely at a Dachshund (but again too small) and then we decided on the Basset, since then we have watched hours of videos and read pages and pages of info, mostly telling us why we should not get one but everything about a Basset seems perfect for us and most of the bd traits can be found in a DDB so we are hoping we wont have to many surprises
My main 2 concerns are that we live in a town house and I have 3 garden rabbits that we adore, the rabbits are kept securely enclosed and my wife is very good with animals and will take charge of training from day one, i know this as i have been very well trained too......and the stairs will only be climbed at bedtime as we live on the ground floor 90% of the time
We are lucky that our front garden connects to the main park and nature reserve in our town so there is plenty of places to walk and my wife now works from home and we are pretty sure thus will become a permanent feature
So I will be lurking about here for the foreseeable future having a read to make sure we are doing the right thing and that we will be as best prepared as possible before we take the plunge
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Kindest regards
Stephen