Reply #8: This is an actual story of a Basset Hound who drank a Heineken every day.

[peacebuzzard]

It was told to me by a very long term employee of a kennel in South Dade, Miami. I was boarding my own very large Basset Hound male, who weighed close to 90 lbs and she recalled to me that years earlier a yacht owner had long-term boarded an elderly Basset who was retired from his yacht. But, he wanted this Basset served a Heineken beer daily at cocktail hour. He prepaid for this dog's happy hour every month, and this was an actual routine that this Basset had expectations for. ( Anyone who has or had a Basset knows how stubborn they are and comfortable w/ their routines) One day, the nearby store where they bought the daily brew was out of Heineken, so a substitute was served. Do you know that the old dog knew the difference? He laid out the most woeful bays and howls for a long time that it made the workers there make arrangements to drive out to find his daily shot. An amazing story, but, if you ever have been "owned" by a Basset, you know how credible this can be.