I'm going to strangle my dog and it's going to be justified

We've got snow and sleet coming down outside. Road's are horrible and everyone is stuck inside. I'm stuck inside with a pair of dogs. We've been inside for all of 3.5 hours and I'm going to strangle my basset hound. Normally in the evening we go for a walk and he spends his time outside chewing on a rawhide or some other time. Sometimes I'll lay around in the yard with him. Sometimes I won't. Either way he's usually fine. Today he's inside. I've got him and my spaniel confined to the kitchen. The spaniel is fine. He's laying around sleeping, chewing and doing what dogs normally do. The basset is the guy I'm going to string up come tomorrow afternoon.

When I'm in the kitchen he walks around howling his head off. He refuses to chew on either of his rawhides preferring to bark and howl. When I leave the kitchen he stops his barking and engages in every bad behavior he can think of from counter cruising to tipping over the trash can to digging in the dog food. When I'm in the kitchen he won't try any of these things. It's killing me. I can't spend my whole day in my kitchen listening to him bark his head off. I can't leave the kitchen and have him tear stuff up. I'm tempted to crate his hairy butt and listen to him howl. At least he won't be destructive then. Does anyone have any other ideas? It's almost like they're suffering from cabin fever.