[Dailydrool] Basset Cross

[Jennifer Martin]

I sometimes find it amazing what shelters consider to be crosses and not.
Our Elwood ATB was our very first rescue basset. He was 7 when we got him.
I know they usually don't do this, but we were given a folder his previous
owners had turned in with him. It had his official papers with him as well
as all his medical receipts for his whole life. I guess his foster mom
wasn't worried since he was neutered. Anyway, I have papers showing he was
100% basset. Size wise he was a very big basset. Very short legs, HUGE
chest. But, his ears barely made it to his nose. They sure weren't long
enough to wrap around his nose. I have seen rescues turn down dogs like
these because they must be bagels. Really? Elwood was 75 lbs at his proper
weight, so I guess there was no question he was not crossed with a beagle.
Meanwhile I have seen some really strange looking dogs that someone said
were basset crosses. I sure couldn't see the basset in them. It is so hard
to know sometimes. Other times it is obvious. I know some people have asked
me if Browyn the Fairy Princess is all basset. I asked myself when talking
to her foster mom the first time. No, she is 100% basset, just very small.
She definitely looks like something out of a puppy mill as opposed to show
lines, but that doesn't make her any less cute or less of a basset.

Jennifer with Beauford, Bugsey and Browyn the Fairy Princess
timandjenmartin at gmail.com
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