Key facts
- Origin
- France
- Height
- Males
- Weight
- Males
- Coat
- Smooth, short and close
- Colour
- Generally black, white and tan (tri-color) or tan/lemon and white (bi-color); but any recognized hound color acceptable.
- Litter size
- 6–8 puppies
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dog breed
- Subclass of
- hunting dog
- Country of origin
- France
- Mass
- 32
- Image
- Basset Hound 600.jpg
- Height
- 38
- Life expectancy
- 11.5
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- Commons category
- Basset Hound
- Commons gallery
- Basset Hound
- catalog code
- 163
- litter size
- 6.7
- native label
- Basset Hound
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Encyclopedic overview
Dog (domestic dog)
The Basset Hound is a short-legged breed of scent hound. The Basset Hound was developed in Great Britain from several now-extinct strains of French basset breeds. It was bred primarily for hunting rabbit and hare on foot, moving slowly enough that horses were not required. Their sense of smell and ability to ground-scent is second only to the Bloodhound.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “basset hound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.