Although
this hound has short legs, they are still heavy with strong bones and muscles.
Not exact matches
WASHINGTON — Heidi Parker chose her pet basset
hound «Stormy» because
short -
legged basset
hounds have a reputation for being comfortable, cuddly couch potatoes.
Some of our scent
hounds have traditionally been bred with very
short legs.
Whereas Bassett
Hounds, bred for foot following,
have shorter legs and proceed at a slower pace than their speedy foxhound relatives.
But PBGVs don't
have the extremely
short legs of Basset
Hounds - their
legs are long enough to let them nimbly scramble over rocks and run at a good speed.
Because many
short -
legged dogs from this time were called basset and record - keeping from this time was sparse, it is difficult to know which of these breeds
have bloodlines in common with today's Basset
Hounds.
These dogs
have short, stubby
legs and include the American Cocker Spaniel, Basset
hound, Beagle, Corgi, Dachshund, French and other bulldogs, Shih - tzu and the Pekingese.
The
short -
legged hounds had hunters following them on foot; whereas, the longer -
legged hounds had hunters following them on horses.
Basset
Hounds, French Bulldogs and English Bulldogs, for example,
have very
short legs that usually can't move quickly enough to keep their bodies afloat.