Park Slope Basset Hound Flashmob!

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If me talking about Oliver-n-dogs and Basset Hounds makes you wanna barf, now would be a good time to clickity clack on over to another post. Cause this Sunday was the first official meetup of the North Slope Basset Hound Association (NBA), and it was AMAZEBALLS x ten billion.

Organized by fellow Park Sloper and NYT City Room Bureau Chief Andy Newman (and his world famous Basset Hound Barnaby, who almost completed a 26.2 mile marathon around his own block in Park Slope; video here), six Bassets and their people met up in Prospect Park for some major howling, barking, drooling and general mayhem: Meet Iggy, Jett, Oliver, Barnaby, Higgins and Baxter! (Baxter had to leave a little early...and yep: he was just as cute as the others! See below foreground).

Needless to say, our motley crew attracted quite a bit of attention in the Park. Which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that all the dogs took turns barking their big fat heads off. All sorts of people stopped us to take photos, ask what the hell we were doing, and to just say hi.

Thankfully I brought a bag of dog treats, which, as you can imagine, were quite helpful when we were trying to stage the top photo. If you thought all the hounds were just sititng and happily looking up at the camera based on a command uttered, think the fuck again: these are Basset Hounds, ppl. It was alllllll about the turkey jerky.

Anyway.

An amazing, jowl-y, drool-y, Basset-y time was had by all! (and if you have a Basset Hound and want to join us the next time, send an email with your info to nbahounds@gmail.com). 

And now, some Basset porn:

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P.S. If you love Bassets as much as I do, you should adopt one from Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue. That's where we got Ollie 8 years ago, and it's an amazing organization with tons of adorable hounds who need good homes. DO NOT BUY DOGS, PPL! Cause that srsly pisses me off. ADOPT! ADOPT! ADOPT!

Video via 30 Second Life