![chumley 6mo & sam 6week.jpg (49145 bytes)](images/scans/chumley_7mo_sam_6week_small.jpg) |
"What's this?!? A new puppy? Why wasn't
I consulted?" Samantha, at 6 weeks. |
![chum 7mo, sam 3mo.jpg (40686 bytes)](images/scans/chum_9mo_sam_3mo_small.jpg) |
At 2.5 months, she's taken a notice to the
photographer. |
![chum 7mo, sam 3mo 2.jpg (40466 bytes)](images/scans/chum_9mo_sam_3mo_2_small.jpg) |
And decided she doesn't like him! |
![sam 6week.jpg (66608 bytes)](images/scans/sam_10week_small.jpg) |
Important to hold the ears down - you never
know when there'll be a sudden gust of wind. |
![sam 3mo.jpg (65334 bytes)](images/scans/sam_3mo_small.jpg) |
Three months. |
![sam 3mo 2.jpg (60575 bytes)](images/scans/sam_3mo_2_small.jpg) |
"I'm in no mood!" |
![sam 4mo.jpg (77772 bytes)](images/scans/sam_4mo_small.jpg) |
Four months. |
![sam 1yr.jpg (59062 bytes)](images/scans/sam_1yr_small.jpg) |
One year, and doing her killer
bunny-rabbit impersonation. |
![sam, chum - 8-96.jpg (80801 bytes)](images/scans/sam_chum_-_8-96_small.jpg) |
As I said elsewhere, she makes a fine pillow. And yes,
I keep a floor jack on my bed. Don't you? |
![sam 1-5 yrs.jpg (61801 bytes)](images/scans/sam_1-5_yrs_small.jpg) |
One and a half years old. |
![04.jpg (124209 bytes)](images/dogs-97-06/04_small.jpg) |
Sammy, 2 years old. |
![12.jpg (124697 bytes)](images/dogs-97-06/12_small.jpg) |
"Aww man! Who farted?" |
![23.jpg (126373 bytes)](images/dogs-97-06/23_small.jpg) |
"Listen bub, y'ever hear that old line about
'letting sleeping dogs lie?!?'" |
![0017.jpg (49670 bytes)](images/dogs-98-05/0017_small.jpg) |
It's not that I set out to wake the dogs up
so I can take these pictures. It's just that they're invariably asleep! |
![R1-15.jpg (126658 bytes)](images/litter2/R1-15_small.jpg) |
Art Shot: "Basset by
Candlelight" |
![R2-24.jpg (127258 bytes)](images/litter2/R2-24_small.jpg) |
"Yo Ace, do you think it'd be asking
too much for you to run the frickin' vacuum cleaner now and then? Some of us gotta
sleep down here, y'know!" |
![R3-09.jpg (124888 bytes)](images/litter2/R3-09_small.jpg) |
Part of the fun of bassets is their general
willingness to be put into stupid poses. |
![R01-03a.jpg (41213 bytes)](images/litter3/R01-03a_small.jpg) |
"Yeah, I know, 'big as a house'..."
A very pregnant Sammy, right before her third litter. |
![sam_xmas99.jpg (68380 bytes)](images/scans/sam_xmas99_small.jpg) |
Christmas 1999: "Great... antlers.
What's next - a glowing red nose?" |
![Sam portrait.jpg (82153 bytes)](images/dogs-00-01/Sam_portrait_small.jpg) |
Tasteful semi-pro portrait. |
![Sam portrait2.jpg (63410 bytes)](images/dogs-00-01/Sam_portrait2_small.jpg) |
And another. |
![Sam singing.jpg (54108 bytes)](images/dogs-00-01/Sam_singing_small.jpg) |
And she has such a lovely singing voice! |
![Sam in snow.jpg (70376 bytes)](images/dogs-00-01/Sam_in_snow_small.jpg) |
Silently, the great white huntress stalks her prey... |