Bassets Bleu de Gascogne - we have lots to learn!

[timster 4]

I came across this marvellous video of youtube that I wanted to share - as close as I've ever come to seeing this kind of hound in action. But what amazing hounds! (there are some more videos of them on there too).

 

What really impressed me was that on what is obviously a very patchy sent this little pack is totally hunting itself. In the whole ten minute video we don't hear voice or horn once. Sure, the checks are a bit raggedy, but they get themselves out of them without fail every time.

 

I reckon every single over-excited, shouting and horn-blowing person who hunts hounds on this side of the channel, including all the famous professionals, could learn a hell of a lot from this about what hounds should be able to do on their own if you leave them to it. Rare thing to acknowledge the French getting it right, but I reckon they do this time!

 

I love the way their heads go right down on the checks, and then right up on the line too, and they have a very fine voice.

I wouldn't mind having three or four couple of them myself. I wonder how they'd go on a fox?