Try as I might I cannot connect Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller to a Basset Hound, but here is a picture of him with his bulldog, ‘Belulah’, a gift from his fans, taken in London in 1939.

So what is ‘Fats’ doing on a Basset Hound web site? Well firstly I think he's great and beside that, Roy Drew’s reference to big feet in his poem on ‘the arrival of a puppy called, Josie’, inevitably brought Fats’ song to into my head.

Unfortunately he doesn’t introduce enough feet for the song to be an ode to a basset and a rewrite to ‘Your feet’s too big, your so adorable, cos’ your feet's too big’ doesn’t really fit with the rest of the song.

For more information on ‘Fats’ Waller try fatswaller.org

Click on the image to start the video.

As Fats says,

‘Play that dog house music,
I love it;
that's it,
give me the growl’

Cocoa putting her best foot forward.