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#4 Norbert going up the stairs reminded me of our dad's "Go to bed" song: It's hippity-hop to bed I'd rather stay up instead But daddy says must So there's nothing but just Hippity-hop to bed And my dad's name was Norbert!

My dad used humor with just a little bite to it as a childrearing method. I recall that often his answer to "Can I...?" was "You can do anything you want — once." Somehow more unanswerable than an outright, "No, you can't."

Basset hounds are the best (I may be biased), but they are so easily distracted. Unless they're forbidden something & then they turn into short criminal masterminds focused on nothing other than achieving their goal.