Three Little Indians Remain

 We have had three families making their important decision this past few days. One of the lucky decided on two boys, HoHo and Zinger. One family decided Cupcake was the winner. The third found Little Debbie irresistible.  This means there are only three little beauties remaining. 

She is progressing nicely and looking very good.
Pretty happy around people, she figured it out.

She is so darkly colored she can get lost in the pile in low light conditions.

This one loves her food. She is quite a bit larger than most.

This one does not like being taken away from her siblings.
She is quite infatic about being put back in the pile.

Nothing but love for this dog.

We often mistake her for HoHo.
But she is much larger.

The Snack Cakes Litter has Arrived!

 Friday Night was a long one, but Abba Zabba (Abagail Zabba AKC) made a quick and easy job of birthing seven wonderful Baby Bassets. There's a story that comes with this and I'll get it out of the way first.

We just had a litter a few months back with Lilly (Dulce DeLeche AKC) and the last of the pups left for her new home just a few weeks ago. Believe it or not, we really talk things over with our dogs. They are often like four year old children in the way they approach life's challenges and achievements so patience and persistence is what passes for training in a breed that refuses to comply with training. One thing we have learned is that Basset girls become much more clever when pregnant and it really shows once the time for whelping comes closer. In this case the lack of an available whelping space, had Abby worried. She expressed this every time she was in the house and looked at the place where we host our puppy's arrival. She was concerned that there were puppies in there for a time. Then she worried that the space hadn't been properly cleaned up as we dragged our feet for a while getting it ready. And then things really got concerning for her when we tore the old pen down entirely last Friday to prepare for the possibility of an accidental second litter from Lucy (who had begun expressing milk mysteriously on Wednesday last). Abby was talking all the time and getting louder every day. But we figured there was still time as we redesigned the whelping bed and got it built last Friday. At about six on Friday evening we brought everyone in for supper and showed Abby around the new whelping beds. She decided they were pretty good and walked into her choice of the two open spaces and birthed a puppy named HoHo right then and there.  (We were expecting the litter on the eighth so this was quite a surprize.) Six hours later we had seven pups sharing their first breakfast together.  For Abby this was all quite easy; no signs of labor, other than the usual extra demands for cuddle time, and the incessant worry that we would not have our act together before the babies came. She came into the whelping bed and went to work. Not a peep out of her.  She is a professional, after all is said and done. She had a job to do and she did it. So endeth the story. So back to business.

We always pick a theme for each litter. Something which helps people, especially us, keep track of each puppy as they grow and give them all a little help in developing their personalities. Each litter is named for some sweet treat, this is the central theming device for all of our pups. For this litter we decided to re-use a theme and named each puppy for a snack cake. The sort of treat that comes individually wrapped for lunch boxes and keeps you from wanting to eat the whole box in one sitting. 

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HoHo has been chosen.	HoHo will live with his brother Zinger.
HoHo came into the world as something of a surprize at exactly 6:00 P.M.and was quite small, weighing 9.5 ounces. He has since had a bit of trouble competing for food with his bigger siblings and we worried about his failure to thrive. So we have begun helping him get the food he needs to bulk up. HoHo is not afraid to tell us when he wants something and is the principle noise maker in the group. Certainly a tri-colored Basset, like his Sire, even if much of his fur is black and white.
Zinger will go to Canby	Zinger and HoHo will stay brothers for life.
Zinger arrived soon after his brother at 6:10 as we were trying to get the necessary stuff together to both assist Abby in birth and do the pictures, weights, and documentation we find useful in keeping everything straightened out and easy later on. He weighed in at a healthy 14.1 ounces.His black coloring already shows a bit of red throughout and so he is likely to be a black and red tri-color.
CupCake has been Chosen.	Cupcake is not available.
Cupcake is an inky black little girl who arrives at 8:40 P.M. She was very wriggly and awfully strong, at 11.4 ounces, when she came into the world. She was also quite hungry and ready to get going on the food. Cupcake seems destined to become a black and tan tri-color Basset, having a stripe of white between right down the center of her belly. The break between the second and third Snack Cake gave us time to get everything set up and working.
At exactly 9:00 P.M. a wonderfully pretty, 10.6 ounce female, named Ding Dong arrived and headed straight for the cafeteria. It became apparent that this was going to be a highly mobile litter of pups, since they all seems to have good noses and a strong desire to get moving right away.
Little Debbie will live in LaPine.	Little Debbie has a furever family.
Little Debbie arrived at 9:25 P.M.. hot on the heels of her prettier sister. Not to be outdone, Little Debbie came prepared in her very fashionable black coat, white elbow length gloves, white Beatle boots, and matching color and tail tip. Debbie is a fashion queen and will eventually be a true tri-colored Basset. As of this writing she is almost completely symmetrical in color. She is BEAUTIFUL!
Moon Pie is a chunk. She came at 10.50 and at a hearty 14.3 ounces of fast moving Basset Hound and was robustly pushing everyone out of the way on her way to breakfast. She is wonderfully colored and reminds us of so many of Rocky's offspring. Healthy, happy, and strong.
There is always one puppy in each litter who simply cannot wait to get going. Chocodile literally walked out at birth, ears all akimbo, and ran in for breakfast in her robe and slippers weighing a stout 14.6 ounces. She has little time for staying still or getting her pictures taken. Not a fashion Hound at all. She has very little white fur, but will definetly be one among seve tri-colored pups.  We're guessing there is the possibility of a good Field Hound in here, but time will tell.

AbbaZabba's babies arriving today.

 I haven't much time to put up a good post. Abby is whelping her litter today, which is just a few days earlier than we expected. So far five beautiful tri colored babies. Some much darker in color than others. We think maybe there will be eight this time, but one cannot count until they stop appearing.  Abby is doing very well. It is us that will be tired out for the next few weeks as we stand vigil over them until their eyes open. 

If you want to see pictures, go to our Facebook Group. If you want to know more about having one of these beautiful baby Bassets then click here.  We begin taking reservations once the last puppy has paws on the ground. But there really is no need to hurry. You might want to come visit and see our hounds for yourself, though we don't allow handling of puppies until four week vaccines are in.

Be careful of scammers. They seem to be everywhere.

More to come.