Best dog story ever!

[RB Will]

I know its from the Sun and probably a bunch of bs but this is pure comedy.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4222715/...

[Marf]

What a wuff old time, certainly gives one paws for thought.

[Robatr0n]

Funny story if even remotely true. (You'll have to excuse my cynism, afterall it was in The Sun!).

Slightly off topic, but when on earth did it become the norm for Bassets to look like that? I always remember them looking like this:

[itsnotarace]

Robatr0n said:

Slightly off topic, but when on earth did it become the norm for Bassets to look like that? I always remember them looking like this:

That looks more like a Basset/Beagle cross - a Bagel (ya, srsly)

[Marky Boy]

You get different types of Basset. The picture above looks like an artesien normand which is more common in the UK/France. The one in the article looks more like the American variant.

[bexVN]

He's a typically exaggerated version of the breed that you'll see for the show ring....unfortunately (and tends to be the norm)

As happens with many breeds.

Compare pretty much any breed for working to its show counter part and they look very different.

Like the story

[Who me ?]

bexVN said:

He's a typically exaggerated version of the breed that you'll see for the show ring....unfortunately (and tends to be the norm)

As happens with many breeds.

Compare pretty much any breed for working to its show counter part and they look very different.

Like the story

Sadly ,that's the norm. Breed standard - to me a nasty phrase. There's no such thing. Mine is to heavy to meet "breed standard" and too big. I know from my last one( he was a big dog, from champion stock),and that this one has the right lines. But , for my breed, the weight is about 6-8 kg. That's great, except that for Cairns bred for heavy duty ,they can be a lot heavier. Perhaps we need another standard, as in the poodle class. Mine meets all the health checks for his size- perhaps a tad overweight, but then he's almost an OAP AT 11. But show him a rabbit/squirrel/rat, and he's off like a two year old .