Pet of the Week: Sherlock the Basset-Lab

Arthur Conan Doyle's detective hero Sherlock Holmes once said “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,”

I had to employ this rule when I met Sherlock, our pet of the week at the Napa County Animal Shelter.

Yellow, short hair, big head, with a long non-stop tail like a Labrador Retriever, but not a Lab. Stout, short legs and sniffing everything like a Basset Hound, but not a Basset.

Elementary! A Basset-Lab mix.

That's Sherlock – a two-year-old neutered male. Not the gigantic "Hound of the Baskervilles," but a playful and very friendly dog with a wagging tail that just won’t quit.

Sherlock is clean, calm, likes kids, dogs, rides in the car and is very playful. I noted that in spite of the nonstop barking from the other canine residents at the shelter, Sherlock did not make a sound.

“Yeah, he’s pretty quiet” said shelter staffer Tyler Smith. 

As with all animals available from the Shelter, Sherlock is up to date with all his vaccinations and has been micro-chipped so he can be reunited with his new owner should he decide to go bounding across the moors. 

The shelter has many other dogs, cats, rabbits, and this week a couple of goats available for adoption into good homes. Stop by the shelter at 942 Hartle Court six days a week, from noon till 4:45 p.m. For more information, call (707) 253-4381. 

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