Mapple

Description

Mapple is a feeling more than a puppy.

That is the only honest way to describe what happens when you meet this extraordinary 12-week-old female Basset Hound for the first time. Something in you slows. Something settles. The particular quality of her presence — those long, impossibly soft ears, that sweet and solemn face, the low and gentle way she moves through the world as though she has always understood that the best things in life are never rushed — reaches something in you that most things in your day never get close to.

She is gentle in a way that feels considered rather than passive. Mapple does not bump into the world — she eases into it, carefully and warmly, with a natural grace that sits beautifully inside all that magnificent Basset Hound physicality. She notices things. She notices people. She has a way of looking at you with those deep, warm, slightly drooping eyes that makes you feel both thoroughly seen and completely accepted — and the combination of those two things, delivered without agenda or condition, is quietly one of the most disarming experiences you will have with a dog.

She is loyal with the deep, settled permanence that this breed does better than almost any other. Mapple’s affection is not rationed or performed or strategically deployed. It is simply there — constant, warm and entirely genuine — offered freely to the people she has decided are hers and maintained without wavering through every ordinary day of her life. She is a leaner and a settler and a finder-of-the-exact-right-spot-next-to-you that tells you without any words at all that she has chosen you and she is not reconsidering.

She is also, in the great tradition of her breed, wonderfully funny. The ears that get there before the rest of her. The expression of dignified inconvenience she produces when asked to move from a spot she has assessed as optimal. The way she follows a scent trail with the intense, unblinking focus of a professional and then looks up at you at the end of it with an expression that suggests the findings were significant and will be documented accordingly. Mapple does not know she is funny. That is entirely the point. That is entirely why it works so completely every single time.

She will ask very little of you in the practical sense. Good walks — unhurried, nose-led, conducted at a pace that allows proper investigation of everything worth investigating, which is everything. Warmth and closeness and the kind of calm, loving household that allows a dog of her temperament to settle fully and deeply into the life she deserves. Patience for the pace. Appreciation for the stillness. An understanding that a dog who is in absolutely no hurry to be anywhere other than exactly here, exactly with you, is not a dog who is missing something.

She is a dog who has already arrived.

Mapple has been raised at Australia Paw Heaven with the gentleness, expertise and genuine love that a female Basset Hound of her quality deserves from her very first breath. She is fully vet health-checked, up to date on all vaccinations and in beautiful health — soft, warm and absolutely radiating the quiet, certain contentment of a puppy who has been loved well from the beginning and is ready now to take that love somewhere permanent.

Breed: Basset Hound (Purebred) | Gender: Female | Age: 12 Weeks | Adult Size: 45–65 lbs (20–30 kg) | Ideal for: Relaxed households, families, couples, singles and seniors seeking a calm, deeply loving and endlessly characterful companion | Available: Australia-wide through Australia Paw Heaven

Contact Australia Paw Heaven today. Mapple is ready — soft and steady and completely, quietly certain that her person is out there.

She has a feeling it might be you.