[Dailydrool] How big is a basset?

[Dale Rutz]

I'm confused.  When we brought Snoopy home he was skin and bones with the ribs 
sticking out of him ... at 64 lbs.  This morning when I took him in about his 
itchy spot he weighed 73 and looks just right to me, and to the vet too.   I 
noticed at the Bonnets and Bunnies parade that most of the bassets were smaller, 
a lot smaller.  And built different too.  Snoopy has some real definition with 
broad shoulders, narrowing waist, gigantic feet and so on.  There was one other 
male basset that looked like Snoopy, at little bigger, around 82 lbs.  The rest 
were maybe half the size of these two ... or a little more than half, not 
much.   Some of them had ankles turned what looked like 90 degrees. I guess 
bassets come in all shapes and sizes and builds as well as colors.  Is that 
right?   


Does Snoopy have more size and definition because he was neutered late (at age 
5)?  I know that is the case with other breeds.

clueless momPerson with Snoopy (she's just hopeless) and Cyrus (she knows about 
Labs)
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