Bassets have a reputation for being overweight and lazy dogs. This is one of those situations where there are too many heavy basset hounds which are couch potatoes, plod along at a snail’s pace...
People are often surprised to see how fast our basset hounds run when we’re out at the field, taking them for their walks. There is a fair assumption that bassets are slow and plodding,...
We have some very smart hounds – just sayin’.Samson and Delilah have grown up with Laura spending way too much time talking and singing to them. Whether as a direct result of this or...
Samson and Delilah are siblings from the same litter and love to hate each other. Given that we’ve had a lot of guest hounds in the house, it has been interesting to see how...
The best lie my wife ever told me was that bassets only cost £12 a month… This meant it wasn’t too big a financial decision when making the leap to get a pair of...
Over the past six years we have fostered five basset hounds – Sonny, Rufus, Jessie and a pair from South Africa, Pluto and Rascal. Each hound comes with its own history, some of which...
It’s almost 7 years since we picked up Samson & Delilah from their home in Wales. We found them after a long and winding drive that made us question the sanity and accuracy of...
