{"id":8973,"date":"2009-06-24T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2009-06-24T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:47:06","slug":"a-little-crumbcake-for-desdemona-as-she-makes-her-last-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8973\/a-little-crumbcake-for-desdemona-as-she-makes-her-last-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of honey cake for Desdemona as she makes her last escape"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re going to lose Desdemona, our English Coon Hound, tonight. She’s been with us for more than ten years, and she was an adult when we adopted her. A long life for a big dog.<\/p>\n

Desi is by far the smartest dog we’ve ever known, the most willful, the cleverest escape artist, the most vociferous howler. She is maybe six brain cells short of writing angry poetry and howling on stage like the canine version of Tori Amos. There is nothing about this dog that is not astonishing.<\/p>\n

This is Desdemona with my son Cameron, a long time ago:<\/p>\n

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Here’s an encomium Cathleen wrote to Desdemona’s intelligence in September of 2001:<\/p>\n

Desdemona’s going to have a sweet year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because our coon hound, Desdemona, runs away so easily and so tenaciously, we let her stay in the house when we aren’t home. This acknowledges that Desdemona has won the war. Well, of course she has… she won every battle. You’ll recall, she escapes over our 6′ block fence, even after we added an electric wire to the top; even when we strapped her into a full body harness and tethered her; even when we tethered her at both her collar and her harness and attached the two together; even when we put her into a kennel and tethered her at both her harness and collar and ran the two cables out of separate sides of the kennel; even when we drugged her.<\/p>\n

The only thing she couldn’t escape from was a $200 solid plastic shell of a kennel, but after a few times in that box she learned how to splay herself so that anyone who tried to stuff her into the kennel came out of the box bloody and Desi, of course, never came close to going in. So, after spending about $600 on gadgets guaranteed to keep dogs where they’re supposed to be, Desdemona won the war and now gets to stay in the house when we’re not at home.<\/p>\n

The spoils of war include more than the simple luxury of staying indoors. They include staying indoors unsupervised! Which means we’ve had to make changes in how Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re going to lose Desdemona, our English Coon Hound, tonight. She’s been with us for more than ten years, and she was an adult when we adopted her. A long life for a big dog. 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