Why?

My Basset Hound loves our apartment. He sleeps on the couch all day...

Once we trained him to stop chewing things, he has his run of the apartment. Plenty of room to roam for him, and a sizeable running room in the center.

Doesn't eat much.

Maroon92 wrote: My Basset Hound loves our apartment. He sleeps on the couch all day... Once we trained him to stop chewing things, he has his run of the apartment. Plenty of room to roam for him, and a sizeable running room in the center. Doesn't eat much.

Aren't bassets kinda loud?

Nah. He only barks when someone knocks on the door. At that point he is VERY loud, but 98% of the time he sleeps and 100% of the time he is adorable.

93EXCivic wrote: Aren't bassets kinda loud?

They can be. They are large dogs and have a deep bellowing "woof" of a bark. Small yappy type dogs create much more noise with their constant barrage.

I have two bassets. My yard is the most popular place in the neighborhood for pedestrians to stop. It seems no one can resist petting a basset hound.

"WHY?"

Yes WHY cant you put a proper title on your thread? one that has some relevance to the subject being discussed.

Dr. Hess wrote: In my experience, a pit bull can be a wonderful pet, the best. BUT you better establish exactly who the boss is when they turn 2 or you have a hand grenade with the pin pulled just sitting there. Other breeds don't have this problem as much. Of course, the pit bulls I have experience with are kinda from the fringes of the outlaw biker community and are not the cute, cuddly ones, but the bat-E36 M3-zu crazy ones like you see on the news shows during sweeps week. Just get a Rhodesian Ridgeback. They LOVE apartments. For lunch, actually, with a couch or two for desert.

My neighboor has a young rhodesian/pit mix. Super dog. But incredible jaws. I play tug a rope with him, and he about pulls me over. I weigh 200, he cant be over 50, but he is incredibly strong. I really like this dog, but if he had a mind to hurt me, Im berkeleyed.

Joey

Rocco R16V wrote: "WHY?" Yes WHY cant you put a proper title on your thread? one that has some relevance to the subject being discussed.

I cant resist not knowing. Im more likely to open a thread like that then one that sounds uninteresting.

Joey

RossD wrote: We had a german shepard/black lab mix growing up. That dog was like another adult that kept us in line. It listen very well to my parents, but when they were away, he protect our house in the woods with german efficiency. There were multiple times when you'd hear someone honking out in the drive way from their back seat of their car becaus the dog pushed them back into it. On the flip side, if my dad was outside and some one brought over some new kids, they could climb all over the dog and he would happily take it. Roll over and loved. At the end of his day, he bit the neighbor kid in the face when there was nobody home and we had to put him down. In the dog's defense, we rarely had visitor walk up to the house and the kid did try to hug the dog. I don't know of another way my dad could have trained him, it was just the perfect setting for the dog to feel like it was protecting our house in the wood... too much guard dog in him and not enough retriever I suppose... The dog learned to open the slidding glass door and to turn on the water faucet outside, but never learned to close the door or turn the water off.

Unfortunately that sounds like an argument FOR breed banning. Basically you just never know, good dog its whole life, then bites a childs face...

Joey

ANY dog will bite, under the right (wrong) Circumstances. I had a Siberian, very sweet dog, she got loose one night and got herself cornered at the airport. The man who cornered her got bit on the arm and need 15 stitches. The only good news.. he was a family friend and knew our dogs... just didn't know how to approach them.

We did put her down after that.. just can't trust a dog that bites