Blessed Bassets 

Splash day at Blessed Bassets actually happened way back toward  the end of May because here in Texas it gets HOT very early in the summer.  Our dog area has wonderful shade on one side in the morning and the other side in the afternoon and all of the pens have resurrected shadecloth (see the Snow blog for details on that) but it still is hot.  We spend our days in the summer filling pools and buckets with cool, clean water and moving the dogs around to the shadiest areas.   They love the early mornings and the late evenings to run and play when it is cooler and the sun goes down.  But the afternoons are the real "dawg days" of summer....and they all lay around looking like dead dogs !!    For the last two weeks, we have had 99-100 degree heat on most days.  That is extra hot early even for Texas.    

Angel is almost as big a "pool hog" as Zoee.  She has always been crazy about the water and sits up just like this with her eyes closed in contentment.  Angel's puppies all just went home to their families and she is enjoying her non mommy time in the pool !!!

Fred doesn't just sit in the water....He swims around with his head under the water.  He is the water dog supreme.  I tried to catch him in action but I need to take a video !!

Wally (left) with his grandma Zoee sharing a pool moment together.
(More on Zoee in her pool hog blog above.)   Wally loves the water so much that he MUST jump in and out of every pool in every pen.  He also puts his head under. Wally's dad, Gabriel and granddad, Hank both do not like the water at all....but his mama Tess and grandma Zoee love it.  I guess he got their genes for pool love !!