BASSET HOUND
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FCI-Standard N° 163 / 05. 03. 1998 / GB
ORIGIN : Great Britain.
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 27.04.1989.
UTILIZATION : Scent Hound.
CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. :Group 6 Scent hounds and related breeds.
Section 1.3 Small-sized hounds.
With working trial.
GENERAL APPEARANCE : Short-legged hound of considerable substance, well balanced, full of quality. A certain amount of loose skin desirable.
BEHAVIOUR / TEMPERAMENT : Tenacious hound of ancient lineage which hunts by scent, possesses a pack instinct and a deep melodious voice, and is capable of great endurance in the field. Placid, never aggressive or timid. Affectionate.
HEAD : Top of muzzle nearly parallel with line from stop to occiput and not much longer than head from stop to occiput. There may be a moderate amount of wrinkle at brow and beside eyes. In any event skin of head loose enough to wrinkle noticeably when drawn forward or when head is lowered.
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Domed, with prominent occipital bone, of medium width at brow and tapering slightly to muzzle.
Stop : Moderate.
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FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Entirely black except in light-coloured hounds, when it may be brown or liver. Large and well-opened nostrils which may protrude a little beyond lips.
Muzzle : General appearance of foreface lean, not snipy.
Lips : Flews of upper lip overlap lower substantially.
Jaws/Teeth : Jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. the upper teeth closely overlapping the lower teeth and set square to the jaws.
Eyes : Lozenge-shaped, neither prominent nor too deep-set, dark but may shade to mid-brown in light-coloured hounds. Expression calm and serious. Red of lower lid appears, though not excessively. Light or yellow eye highly undesirable.
Leathers : Set-on low, just below line of eye. Long; reaching well beyond end of muzzle of correct length, but not excessively so. Narrow throughout their length and curling well inwards; very supple, fine and velvety in texture.
NECK : Muscular, well arched and fairly long with pronounced but not exaggerated dewlap.
BODY : Long and deep throughout length; withers and quarters of approximately same height.
Back : Level and rather broad. From withers to inset of quarters not unduly long.
Loins : May arch slightly.
Chest : Forechest fitting neatly into crook when viewed from front. Breast bone prominent but chest neither narrow nor unduly deep. Ribs well-rounded and sprung, without flange, carried well back.
TAIL : Well set-on, rather long, strong at base, tapering, with moderate amount of coarse hair underneath. When moving, stern carried well up and curving gently, sabre-fashion, never curling or gay.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Forelegs short, powerful and with great bone. Wrinkles of skin on lower legs.
Shoulders : Shoulder-blades well laid back; shoulders not heavy.
Elbows : Turning neither in nor out but fitting neatly against side.
Forearm : Upper forearm inclined slightly inwards, but not to such an extent as to prevent free action or to result in legs touching each other when standing or in action.
Pastern : Knuckling over highly undesirable.
HINDQUARTERS : Full of muscle and standing out well, giving an almost spherical effect when viewed from rear. Wrinkles of skin may appear between hock and foot, and at rear of joint a slight pouch resulting from looseness of skin.
Stifles : Well bent.
Hocks : Well let down and slightly bent under but turn neither in nor out and just under body when standing naturally.
FEET : Massive, well knuckled up and padded. Forefeet may point straight ahead or be turned slightly outwards but in every case hound always stands perfectly true, weight being borne equally by toes with pads together so that feet would leave an imprint of a large hound and no unpadded areas in contact with ground.
GAIT/MOVEMENT : Most important. Smooth, free action with forelegs reaching well forward and hind legs showing powerful thrust, hound moving true both front and rear. Hocks and stifles never stiff in movement, nor must any toes be dragged.
COAT
HAIR : Smooth, short and close without being too fine. Whole outline clean and free from feathering. Long-haired, soft coat with feathering highly undesirable.
COLOUR : Generally black, white and tan (tri-colour); lemon and white (bi-colour); but any recognized hound colour acceptable.
SIZE :
Height : 33-38 cm (13-15 ins) at withers.
FAULTS : Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog..
Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.
N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
Automatic translate from inseparabile.comOrigin:
The Basset-Hound name derives from the French term bas that it means low. Some sources suggest that the basset hound pu to derive from some dogs genetically figliate present dwaries in of other types of French dogs from hunting, however we know that a rather old race that comes down directly from the Bloodhound. Shakespare has described the following Basset-hound with poetica image: "Ears which sweep away the morning two." According to of the searches the reputation of the Basset hound begun in the 1863 quand be introduced to the Extension of the Dog of Paris. The relative one popolarit scattered in England where there was a lively dispute between two various factions of breeders who wanted moon, to maintain the Basset hound like dog from hunting, laltra, to transform it in a dog from company. In means, wax that one of the original breeders Americans who will proceed to develop a dog from company without in order sacrificing its dowries and qualit of hunter. Its natural inclination for the hunting allaperto or of lair. And therefore used for the hunting the vixen, to the lepre, allopossum and to the pheasant. The Basset pu to hunt alone in group or. Ithas a fiuto excellent but its glares are po discs of a valve. The nose of the Basset Hound nearly comparable to that one of the Bloodhound.
Description :
the large head with a rounded off skull and pronounced occipite. The plan of the snout parallel to the advanced part of the skull. The skin lassa and falls forming of the folds on the head. The vellutate orecchie are much long and would have to be met GO BACK TO LIST the advanced part of the nose. They would have to be folded and not to seem flat. The teeth would have to close in the bite to scissor or fairly it aligns to you. The labbra they are falling. This race has the characteristic sad expression due to the conformation of its eyes browns that show in obvious way part of the inferior eyelid. They never do not have rigorous unespressione, but to the contrary, kind and mesta. The Basset has one giogaia much pronounced one. Its thorax much deep one and extends in the front part in correspondence of front legs. The legs are large and the posterior quarters are round. The spurs can be removed. Landamento of the dog would have intentional but not to be impacciato.
The Cape :
n practical all the colors of the segugi are are concurred and diffuse in the basset it is gone from the white man-orange, to tricolore(pi the diffused), to the mahogany, mahogany focato black mask, black classic and, tricolour disteso(with prevalence of black).
Temperament:
The sweet, kind Basset hound, devout person, Pacific and by nature educated. It lives well in family. Its friendly temperament and would not have to be never shown bad. And mansueto but not timid. Much becoming attached to the friendly master and with the children. And incapable to bite but pu to be a po cocciuto. It is amused to exhibit itself when for prize c of the food. It has I bark much deep one and greve. And difficult that it creates problems in house, however to train it well so as to to be able to leave alone it calmly in apartment also. With a good training an obedient dog but we do not forget its origins from hunter and in fact when it smell a odore that the pu to think interesting to times difficult to draw its attention.
height males: 30-38 cm; females 28 -36 cm;
This dog in how much does not have itself sovra to be fed an eventual overweight turns out to be a too much onerous cargo on the piedini and the dorsal thorn. A represented problematic field from one possible zoppia until to one final paralysis because of the piedini short and of a heavy and long body. Inasmuch as they are tilts "to swell" opportune to break their daily dose of food in two or three meal to the day anzich in an only meal. The dog would have to remain under control for some hours after the meal if given in ununica solution in order to take part if eventually problems are introduced.
Living conditions:
the basset hound star well in apartment. They are in fact of the dogs many inatti to you allinterno of the own room but outside if they will have the possibilit, they will play and run some for hours. They are well also without a garden, always for if from they the possibilit to play and to run much in parks or prati, in order to maintain itself in good shape and health.
Training:
In order to maintain in just basset-hound in good health, it must be trained constantly and much but discouraging it completing knows or movements to you that they speed up front legs too much. These dogs will run and play for hours, if from they the possibilit to make it. They have unelevata physical resistance.
Longevit:
approximately 10 12 years.
MAINTENANCE:
seen the cape smooth and short that they have, these dogs are easy to maintain. Beautiful brushed a constant one with an adequate brush and a shampoo every qualvolta is necessary, all what dovr to make itself in order to have a dog in order. And necessary moreover pulirgli under the orecchie once to the week and tenergli the nails regulated.
STANDARD
F.C.I. n. 256 of the 24/6/87
Country of origin: Great Britain
CLASSIFICATION F.C.I.: Group YOU - segugi and dogs for blood track - Section 1a (Segugi of small ransom) - n256. Subordinate to job tests (hunting) for the International Championship. Not subordinate to tests of job for the Italian Championship.
General aspect: segugio low on the limbs, of considerable substance, very proporzionato, distinguished. Desirable E' one sure quantit of skin lassa.
. Caratteristiche: tenacious dog, of great lineage, than hunting with the smelled one, possesses the instinct of the dumb one, deep and melodiosa voice, equipped of great resistance to the hunting.
Temperament: placid, never aggressive or afraid, affectionate
Head and skull: convex skull; stop the moderately marked and very marked crest occipita them. Of medium width to the forehead, the head is lost weight leggermente towards the snout. The dry but not conical snout. The nasal cane pressoch parallel to devout the advanced line of the skull and not much long one of the skull from the stop to the occipite ones. They can it are to us folds, in quantit moderated, on the forehead and neighbor to the eyes. In any case, the skin the head must sufficiently be lassa in order to form clearly marked folds when it is pulled in ahead, or when the lowered same head. The labbra advanced they cover those inferiors wide. The tartufo completely black, but for the dogs to clear cape in which pu to be brown or color liver. The narici large and are very opened; the tartufo pu to have one light shelf in front of the labbra.
Eyes: to shape of losanga, n sporgenti n too much infossati in the orbits, of dark color, but they can go until the tawny mean in the dogs to clear cape. Calm and serious expression. The congiuntiva of the visible inferior eyelid but not excessive. The clear eye or the yellow eye a serious defect.
ORECCHIE: attacked low, just under the line of the eye. They are long and clearly exceed the estremit of a snout of corrected length, but without excess. They are tightened on all their length and very rolled up. Much flexible, of fine and vellutata webbing.
Teeth: strong, with one perfect scissor articulation, regular and complete: I recorded to you advanced they cover cio those inferiors to tightened contact and are implants to you to lead on the jaws.
NECK: muscoloso, very ricurvo and of good length, introduces one giogaia pronounced, but without esagerazione.
Front limbs: very slanted bachelor and not heavy shoulders. The front limbs are short, poderosi and with strong skeleton. The elbows are not revolts n towards the inside n towards the outside. They adapt themselves perfectly against the ribs of the chest. The forearm, in its advanced part, tilted leggermente towards the inside, but not to such point to disturb the libert of movement, n to have like result the fact that the limbs are touched in erected position or action. Approval of face, the chest adapted perfectly to the curving of the forearm. The arrembatura constitutes a serious defect. The skin forms of the folds on the forearm.
LOG: along and very come down on all the length. The sterno sporgente, the not tightened thorax n n excessive come down. The ribs very are rounded off without to form a shelf and they extend well towards the posterior part. The enough wide and levelled back. The garrese and the kidney are found approximately in the same height, bench the kidney can introduce one light curving. The back, from the garrese to the point of beginning of also, not of excessive length.
Posterior limbs: many muscolosi and very constructed, the posterior limbs give pressappoco to the impression of one sphere if seen from the posterior part. Very angled coxo-femoral articulation, the garretti is very reductions and leggermente capacities under the log; the garretti they are not revolts n towards the inside n towards the outside, but they are in perpendicularly regarding the log when the dog in erected position natural. The skin pu to form of the folds between garretto and the foot and, GO BACK TO LIST the articulation of the garretto, pu to appear one light ag because of the rilassatezza of the skin.
FEET: massive, supplies of good joints and good bearings. Front feet can be directed in ahead, or turn to you leggermente towards the outside but, in any case, the erected position must perfectly turn out to regulate, being the shared weight equally on the feet and the bearings, so that the same feet lascino the prints of a large dog, not being in contact with the ground some region not supply of bearings.
TAIL: very attacked, enough long, sturdy to the base. It is lost weight by hand by hand with moderated rough hair in quantit in its inferior part. In action the tail comes capacity towards the high forming one sweet curve, to sabre, without never n being rolled up n gaia.
Sailing point: characteristic a lot important. Melted and uniform sailing point, with the front limbs that extend well in ahead and those posterior ones that it gives one pushed powerful, in virt, exactly, of the melted sailing point is front is posteriorly. Never, during the action, whichever rigidit in the garretti and the grasselle must is to you one. No finger must never crawl on the land.
Hair: smooth, and short driven in without being too much fine. All the profile must clearly be in its lines and free from sfrangiature. The long hair, the soft hair with frange is serious defects.
Color: generally tricolour (black, fire and white man); bicolored (lemon and white man); for admitted whichever color of the dogs from continuation.
RANSOM: from 33 to 38 cm to the garrese.
Defects: whichever scostamento said how much previously must be considered like a defect, than sar penalized in function of its gravit.
Famous: the males must completely have two testicoli of normal aspect and reductions inthe scroto.