Miss Molly when we first got her, fluffy cotton ball!
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Lilly Jane
This is a little history about how Miss Lilly Jane came to be with our family. I have always loved Basset Hounds and apparently I hinted enough to my husband that he finally decided to get one! We got her right after Christmas about a year after we got Molly Sue. Miss Molly rode with us to pick her up and was not convinced we should keep her. Lilly cried until we stopped to pick up puppy food and my husband held her and then she went right to sleep! She has been a daddy’s girl ever since.
Lilly was much harder to train than Molly was, she has quite the stubborn streak mixed with just the right amount of attitude. After a few carpet chewing and potty breaking incidents she began to come around with the use of her crate. Molly hated being crated and still does but Lilly was ok with it. She doesn’t use it much anymore mostly because she has her “own room” (our guest room). Lilly is quite the proficient snuggler and can put almost anyone to sleep once she settles in for a good snug. She has no problem jumping in with whoever is staying with us either! (Yes you must love dogs to stay with us!!)
For some reason Lilly is completely unaware that she is not as big as her sister. She seems almost like a ferocious guard dog if you didn’t know any better, however if she feels scared she immediately looks for big sis and runs underneath her! Molly humors her and for the most part is pretty patient with her but we sometimes still get the ” I told you not to keep her look”.
Lilly is for the most part a typical, comical ,sweet Basset with a little extra energy! She enjoys destroying anything that squeaks, squirrel chasing, following her big sister around and being the center of attention at all times. She also enjoys being called a princess!
Molly Sue
I thought I would write a post about how each of our girls came to be a part of our family. Miss Molly was the first puppy my husband and I have raised together. I previously had two beagles that I raised, Mickey who passed due to cancer and Minnie who had extreme kidney issues. My husband did get to spend time with Minnie before she passed and we both agreed we would get another dog afterwards we just weren’t sure how soon after.
As it turned out it was alsmost a year later, around our wedding date, that we came upon the cutest sort of little fluffball we had ever seen. We had both decided we wanted a larger dog and had looked at Newfoundlands, Berneese Mountain Dogs, even Saint Bernards but alas we fell in love with a Great Pyrenees! She was the last girl left from her litter and just happened to be all white. My husbands brother actually picked her up for us on his way to our wedding!
She came from a small farm in central Pennsylvania and was the size of a small bowling ball (covered in fluff) when we first met her. She was very independent from the start and was not into snuggling much to my dismay, I mean all that fluff and hardly any cuddles! We started basic training with her right away by hand feeding her occasionally, different games to teach commands and of course potty training. She was a very quick learner although she prefers being persuaded into doing things as opposed to just being told to do them. She also does not like being scolded and will sulk until you apologize to her. She enjoys barking at everything and nothing, keeping a close eye on the neighborhood,drooling,shedding and her pool.
She has recently developed a health issue ( I will give more details in a future post) that caused almost all of her beautiful white fluffy coat to fall out, but we now know what caused it and are working on different methods of getting her back to her healthy, fluffy self!
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