How do you handle a Bassett Hound?

[Paddy]

Solution No 1
Tabasco and water pistol. Squirt at the dog’s balls.

Solution No 2
Feed the dog chocolate laxative, after a few days he won’t be welcome on the bed.

[Lockhouse]

You have a missus ??!!!!??

[gricerboy]

You have a missus ??!!!!??

Mother Palm and her 5 daughters

[SizeZero]

Wilmslow will live for ever until I forget the password

[MaryPoppins]

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Her other dog with stomach problems decides to wretch and let one off just as things settled down with the hound, which was a rather damp squid to the night.

QUOTE]

Damp Squib !! squids are always damp until you fry them.

I have never known anyone construct sentences like Wilmslow, it's almost genius.

[Pondlife]

This is a real test of your "Manhood"......

1) Make sure the Totty is somewhere else.... you need to assert yourself without her "interfering"
2) Stand 3ft in front of the dog and face it....
3) Get down on your hands and knees....
4) Make eye contact.....
5) Growl (and I mean growl as if you mean it!!)

Assuming you have any Bollix the dog will back down....
Once he has backed down you have been accepted as leader.... Now when it attempts to jump on your bed etc just move in front of it, make eye contact and gently growl.... He should pish off and leave you alone....

Another method is to Mount the dog to prove you are Boss..... I don't favour this method..... I have humped enough "real dogs" in my youth without humping "real dogs"......

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[Drewster]

<< Placeholder for "I backed down first and became the bassett's bitch, now it won't let me on the bed and I have to sleep in a basket in the kitchen" >>

Booom-Tish!!
I'll keep lobbing them for you!

[doodab]

[QUOTE=MaryPoppins;1154265]

I have never known anyone construct sentences like Wilmslow, it's almost genius.

Reminiscent of rain man.

[OwlHoot]

Wilmslow, you shouldn't let a dog sit/lie with its head higher than you. Otherwise, instinctively, it starts getting ideas above its station.

It would help if you persuaded the g/f to try and make the dog at least sleep on the bedroom floor. But the chances of training it to do that now are very slim, because she'll probably let it back on the bed when you're not around, and also Basset hounds are notoriously thick and difficult to train at the best of times.

[shaunbhoy]

and also Basset hounds are notoriously thick and difficult to train at the best of times.

You can see what drew her towards Wilmslow then.