Basset hounds or just breeders playing God

The Basset hound and how the breeders have been playing at God. It also gives us all an idea of the suffering caused, and just how far some breeders will go to defend their lucrative incomes

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[showpup]

Let me guess... 'foundonly' is a PETA member? LOL All these 'hate the breeder' videos are outrageous. How about a little neutrality and allow the viewers to make up their own minds.

You think that's terrible that a judge didn't like that dog pictured from 60 yrs ago? So what!! Sure, you show some nice Crufts dogs as representatives of the breed today but who says that dog in the picture was anything even remotely close to a good representative of them 60 yrs ago.

It IS a load of rubbish!

[foundonly]

Guess you never saw a true working dog, you should get out of the show ring more.

[showpup]

LOL... I see them every day! I am a 3rd generation coonhound breeder. We train dogs to hunt and show. We have non-show dogs here but we do not have dogs who can't work. In the days of my raising/showing dairy goats, I had both working border collies as well as Great Pyrenees. Both my family and my husbands family are multi-generational in the dog world - both in showing and WORKING. Maybe you've 'seen' a working dog but do you UNDERSTAND what it takes to make a working dog???

[foundonly]

This seems to be the main problem, the idea that breeders like yourselves can make a dog fit their own needs and given market place, there is no issue here with breeding and using true working dogs, its the way the breeds are manipulated to suit the needs of the show ring, quite honestly you as breeders are knowingly breeding dog pinups that look the way youre told they should look without regard to their overall health and now the dogs themselves pay the terrible price.

[LionGoddess1]

hypocrits. they're trying to preserve a breed yet they're modifying them to what they see as fit.. which is very UNfit.. anyway..

[HyenaWolf123]

Just curious is this the english or american standard? Because the U.S. show bassets I've seen aren't as dramatized-some are even still used for hunting. I'm not sure if it's just the area I'm living in or the standard itself. thank you please reply.

[Jrhynie]

Some of these Bassets are carrying far to much weight. They should be fit to work even if they are house pets. All that excess fat, loose skin is a nonsense. At least our dog was fit for purpose and not a lard bucket.

I would be tempted to cross some of these dogs with another breed, better healthy than suffering with various ailments and early death.

[Miss65boo]

My Basset Hounds do not have that much excess skin, although their ears are delightfully long, they move well and quickly and are awesome trackers and hunters. Show Bassets have way too much skin and they are all overweight!

[ASIANBOYZPRODUCTION]

Charles Darwin said it's about natural selection not idiot selection!

[RockingAmigo]

@showpup

And why again would they take a picture of a dog in a stoic pose sixty years ago and keep it til this day?

[TheBermudaMan]

1:58 My immediate response would have been, "Isn't that what drops out of your womb every nine months, miss?"

[salvolondon]

My female bassethound is nearly 14 and she doesn't have any health problem..period.

[hig4s]

The poster of this may be exaggerating a bit, but is by no means wrong.. pure bred AKC bassets have two distinctly different lines, The conformation show line, and the field trial and hunting line.. The latter is much closer to the old basset style, about 20lb lighter, more athletic, and with less problems. I've had bassets 10 yrs and have 2 now, My bassets all have been pure breed from the field trial/hunting line. Still just as sweet and loving, and much more active.

[Mike11069]

@MeSaraberry read the desription: "gives an idea of the suffering". thats some BS. all this said was told me was that the commentator hates bassets and that they use misinformation to control ppl. im not a breeder but i own a basset hound and i know that they are heavily protected by their dense bones, thick skin and that their ears help them pick up scents. the scent part is extremly noticeable when ur an owner lol

[Mike11069]

got 10 bucks saying the commentator has never owned a basset hound. "Deformed dwarf"? u dont mess with basset hounds bitch, they are beautiful dogs. with that said, i used to have 2 bassets, one of them sadly died :( my point however is that one of them looked like the old ones and the other one looks like the new ones. interesting huh?