I have a Bassett. I've never had one before, but I'd have one again in a heartbeat. They are hard to train, but mine has good recall and knows her commands- she obeys , slower than I'd like, but she obeys. She's house trained through the day, I am slowly accepting she will never be fully housetrained at night
not every night but sometimes she's done a wee in her room. She's never wee in the day though.
For temperament she's faultless. Plays when you want her too, sleeps the rest of the time, happy for the baby to play hide and seek with one of her ears, I'm not sure whether they can growl, but mine never has. With other dogs she's a delight and has been from day 1.
She's a walker- happy with anything between one and eight miles a day ( only after they're gone one though- before that short walks to prevent joint troubles later)
In the garden in the sun she doesn't appear to be move at all- she's asleep on the decking, but slowly, not seen by the naked eye, she slinks in a semi circle, ensuring she is never in the shade, it's adorable
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She cuddles like a baby and let's me smooth her ears
She smells. No getting around it, hound dogs smell. And roll in poo. But she's not adverse to a shower. I read that they can't swim and are therefore not recommended near the coast.
They bay they don't bark and when they howl it's LOUD. We had a short period where separation anxiety lead to her howling when alone- the work involved to sort it was long and tedious, but the neighbours were not happy and nor was the dog. When I read up on it I read that it's common.