Sleeping Positions

D Vautier
11/2000


I sleep in three positions, usually on my right side, sometimes on my back, and on my left side when I’m really tired.  I also sleep on the right side of the bed.  When I sleep on the couch it’s just on my back.  That’s a grand total of four positions/places.

But Basset hounds can sleep in approximately four hundred sixty-two positions.  They can also sleep just about anywhere in the house, I mean anywhere; the stairs, the couch, pillows, grocery bags, sleeping bags, porches, corners, closets, but their favorite spot is right in front of the refrigerator.  When I go to load the dishes each morning, there’s always a basset underfoot sleeping right in front of the dishwasher door, because dishwasher-loading time means special feeding time.  Bassets are not so dumb after all.

So with 462 positions times maybe 821 locations throughout the house, a basset has at least 379,302 locations and positions to sleep.  What an exciting life!

Anyway here are just a few of the basset sleeping positions I have been able to observe so far.  There are many, many more believe me!