Fred Basset by Alex Graham for July 30, 2021

Fred is doing gymkana! You go Fred!

Great exercise for him.

Working off all those sausages….

What is Agility, if not a playground designed for dogs? Conan loved zooming through the tunnels once he figured out what we wanted him to do … he and his bestie (a lovely husky named Skye) played chase and used the tunnel as a short-cut.

Go Fred Go!

You’ll have a cameo in family circus soon Fred!

There’s a woman in the neighborhood who has an agility training setup in her backyard.

Sometimes Fred seems like the Tucker Triplet.

I’ve just seen that someone asked me on Monday who voiced Fred Basset in the TV series. The actor was Lionel Jeffries. Among Lionel’s best known roles are his support for Peter Sellers in the crime comedies “Two Way Stretch” and “The Wrong Arm of the Law” and his role as Dick Van Dyke’s father in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”.

Fred’s TV show was produced in 1976 and shown on UK TV in 1977 which was how I discovered Fred.

Everything nice and low to accommodate basset.

My favourite agility run is still that little Papillon Gabby from a few years ago. She’s on YouTube.

Love seeing Fred so happy!

I’d like to see him go through that tire!

That looks like what I made for my Boston Terriers while a youngster.