"The Basset Hound is a long, low, scenting hound of French ancestry. His many admirers consider him to be among the most beautiful and unusual of all hounds, his dignified look owing in great part to a large, majestic head adorned with long, velvety ears, a wrinkled brow and dark, soulful eyes."
" We're signing up for heartbreak,
we know one day we'll rue it.
But oh the way our life lights up
The years a dog runs through it."
-Linda Pastan