Had. A basset for many years. Was greAt dog.
My father retired in 1995, he found a Basset on the golf course in 1996, he for some reason jumped into the golf cart and would follow him when he played his 18 holes so he took him in, tried to fined the owner of the dog... (needless to say, no one claimed him) so we ended up w/ a Basset hound. Long story short... He ended up being our dog... Fast forward to 1997... My father Died of a heart attack on the same golf course in 1997...On the 4 of July weekend in 1997. My mother moved back in town. ( Marietta, Ga.) and we still had the basset hound... I had wanted a Rottweiler for a few years, and my mother was a little relunctant to get a dog like a Rottweiler...
As it turns out my first Rottweiler was one of the best dogs we had ever had, when she got sick from cancer, the only dog ( and not her stupid cat) who came to her was my Rottweiler, and sat by her side... before she was sent to the hospice, where she died....(on mothers day in 2002 BTW.)
I have never seen a breed so loyal in my life, and the last 3 dogs I have had have been Rottweilers... Amon, Gunther, and Eva, are gone now, but I have Sniper and Boris, at the moment... And until I die, I'll have Rottweilers... They are big, goofy, 120+ pound lap dogs... That will protect your life and never leave your side...