Fred Basset by Alex Graham for August 01, 2023

you don’t want to be a trout Fred, they never get to leave school!

In this weather,esp.

You are the cutest basset in the world, Fred. But you would be an odd-looking trout. Stay with us.

No, Fred! Your place in the cosmos can be filled by no one else!

Don’t they die once they spawn upstream?

A fishy tale or even tail…..

“The grass is always greener on the other side”. Fred has green grass but is wishing he was a trout!

You don’t want to be a trout, Fred. Your safer having a place at the table than being on the menu.

There’s something a little fishy about that whole idea, Fred.

“When you enter the water, you enter the food chain; but not at the top.”

Oh, Fred, it’s too late—but people say it this way, I wish I were

No you don’t, you’d stand a good chance of being someone’s dinner

There are very few sausages in the water, Fred!

But sometimes, you’ll have to swim upstream, at least according to Gordon Lightfoot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11CrgGazPUU&pp=ygUeZ29yZG9uIGxpZ2h0Zm9vdCByYWluYm93IHRyb3V0

On the other hand, basset meuniere isn’t a thing.

So, you like being caught, rolled in flour and pan fried, Fred?

Fred likes the flick of the tail. HE could do that!

No, you don’t, Fred, you’d end up in somebody’s frying pan.

Well, if that sort of life is what you wish …

Don’t worry Fred; you’re quite graceful for a basset hound.

Hmmm… no Fred trout just doesn’t roll off the tongue. be pretty boring too

You are so wonderful just being yourself, think +…

You could just jump in Fred ……. be like a trout for awhile …….. then get out and be “YOU” again ……………. best of both worlds …….. :)

No Fred we love you as a doggie because if you were a trout you would not steal sausages from the Dears

With warmer water temperatures trout get pretty stressed these days.