Here’s Chip & Quincy ready for football season!
Blizzard Day!
February 2, 2011 By
Chip & Quincy running in the big snow!
We were snowed in today, no way to get dug out in time for work. Both of our jobs called off work. Steve and I stayed home and watched GroundHog Day after trying to dig out for a couple hours.
Later in the day, Steve cut some dog trails for Chip & Quincy
Merry Christmas from Chip & Quincy
December 25, 2010 By
I have been really behind in my blogging, I’m going to work on catching up, but here is a too cute picture of my best buds!
Chip & Quincy get a “Nephew”
August 10, 2010 By
My nephew desperately wanted a dog for his 5th birthday. My parents agreed to get him one and when asked about what kind of dog, he would just say he wanted a dog like Quincy. 
So, here is Quincy with the newest member of the family, Trucker.
Chip has a seizure
July 24, 2010 By
So, on Wednesday, I took Chip & Quincy to Keylore Kennels for dog day care like we do most weeks. I dropped them off at about 8:45am. At 9:45 am I got a call from Lisa in the office telling me that Chip was having a seizure and that he needed to see a vet. I freaked out. Luckily for me and for Chip, they remained calm. Everyone there is trained about what to do in the case of a seizure and I’m really grateful for that.
Chip was outside for about 15 minutes when Ranae noticed him sitting next to the gate and his head was tittering. Then, he ended up in a full grand mal seizure, legs paddling, he was disoriented, he had a panic stricken look on his face and he was convulsing. He became really hot after the seizure (the vet says because of all of the energy his body was exerting and the adrenaline). Sharon cooled him down with cold wet towels.
I made it to day care and Sharon rode with Chip & I to the vet and gave them all the details. I’m very grateful for that. I wasn’t there and it would be just too hard to relay the information telephone game style.
So, the vet said that sometimes a dog just has one seizure and never another one. He is quite young for epilepsy. He is only 7 months old. The vet also indicated that he was pretty young for some of the other problems that can cause seizures. He did a full blood panel and that looked normal. He does have a yeast infection in his right ear, but that is unrelated, his tympanum looks good.
So, the vet wants him watched for a few weeks in case he has another seizure. We’re going to take him to Keylore Kennels for the next couple weeks just so that he will be always supervised. I feel nervous about leaving him in his outdoor kennel for fear that he has another seizure and then his body is too hot and he can’t get his core temperature down on his own.
He is acting normally now. He was acting strangely that morning and from reading the Canine Epilepsy website, that is typical. Now that I know what the odd behavior is, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for it. He didn’t drink any water with his breakfast (was not dehydrated though when he had the blood panel) and he was whining in the car really bad all the way to daycare.
I also called the breeder to see if other dogs in the line had ever experienced seizures and she indicated that they have not. I’ll keep her up to date on what happens with Chip. I read a lot of information on Thursday online about seizure disorders. It was making me very nervous. I also read some threads at Basset.Net from other folks with Basset Hounds that had seizures. I decided not to read anymore about it unless something else happens, but I am thinking about going to a pet first aid class now.
I’m very hopeful that this is just a fluke. I was just so devastated when they called me and worried, but he seems to be back to his normal self now.
Chip & Quincy hanging out in the yard
Quincy
June 15, 2010 By
I’ve been photographing Chip so much lately that I thought Quincy needed a couple pictures. 
She has been doing really great. She is a wonderful big sister to Chip. She feels sad when she isn’t with him and vice versa. She has been doing well in the house and has even been getting a bit more confident around strangers. I took them both to the Sniffer Dog Demo at Key-Lore Kennels and am excited about starting to do some scent work with her. More on Sniffer Dog soon! I’m excited to give these hounds a job! Basically we learned some initial activities to do to teach your dog to track some scents. It is kind of like Geo-Cacheing with your dog. I plan to start doing some exercises with the dogs and more posts are sure to come!
Frankenmuth Dog Bowl 2010
May 30, 2010 By
Steve, Quincy, Chip and I ventured out on Sunday to the Frankenmuth Dog Bowl at Riverplace in Frankenmuth, Michigan. 
It was an incredibly hot day. I think temperatures were over 90 degrees. The dogs were hot. Steve and I were hot. So, we didn’t do as many activities as we would have liked and we didn’t get as many pictures as I wanted to. However, we did have fun. There were a lot of good vendors there. Doodle Dog Bakery had a booth and there was a booth selling elk antlers and the like (we buy these from Dotty’s Pet Center in Clio and love them). They had a lot of activities happening including: Dock Dogs, Disc Dogs, Sheep Herding, an Off Leash Dog area, a Doggie Dash for all dogs to participate in, Wiener Dog races, Dogs of the World Parade and probably a lot more that we didn’t get to see.
Chip was so incredibly hot that he couldn’t keep his tongue in his mouth. Both dogs were very good because they just wanted to lay in the shade. Our friends met us there with their dyed pink dogs. That was pretty neat. We did take Chip and Quincy to the off leash area for some fun. 
Chip was playing a lot more than Quincy. He wouldn’t go in the water though.
It was a fun, but hot day. I wish that we could have stayed longer and enjoyed more of the activities, but here is what Chip & Quincy looked like when we got home after only a couple of hours:
It was fun for Memorial Day weekend to go and check out the activities. We also got to see a few of the balloons that were there for the Great Lakes Ballooning Championships.
Here is our whole photo album from the Dog Bowl.
A couple sleepy hound dogs
May 22, 2010 By
My basset hounds, sleeping on the couch. Chip loves being so close to Quincy.
