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Basset Artesien Normand.

FCI 34: small game dog for hunting with the gun; hunts as well alone as in a pack, giving tongue; short legs let it penetrate dense vegetation where a big dog cannot and flush hidden game; Group 6, Section 1.3 small-sized hounds, with working trial. UKC: eager to please, intelligent and full of energy; history notes some feel streamlining cost stamina and hound voice. Wikipedia (fr): small-game hound and companion; created in the 19th century by Le Couteulx de Canteleu and Louis Lane from the Basset de Normandie and the Basset d'Artois; first standard 1898..

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0INHeightall null. An ideal from the standard, not a range.

33–44LBWeight, all linesbreed 33 to 44 lb.

The body

What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.

Height at the shoulder

11.8 to 14.2 in

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

FCI and UKC bands differ by about 0.2 in at each end; both stand.

Weight

33 to 44 lb

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

FCI only.

Coat

FCI: close, short and smooth without being too fine; skin supple and fine. Color: fawn with black blanket and white (tricolour) or fawn and white (bicolour); tricolour head largely tan with a circle of darker hairs at each temple. UKC: same colors; too much black mottling in the white (bluish tint) is a disqualification.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Heat tolerance

4 of 5 · FCI 34: coat close, short and smooth without being too fine. UKC: short, close and smooth. Skin supple and fine.

DerivedFCI-Standard N° 34

Derived from the standard's coat description; no measured data. Short smooth hound coat = 4; heavy ears and dewlap not weighed.

The work

What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.

Role

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Primary game

Rabbit first (FCI 34: 'his favourite is hunting the rabbit'), also hare and deer. Wikipedia (fr): rabbit and hare, also fox and larger game such as stag and boar.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Also used on

Hare and deer (FCI 34: 'he can just as well hunt the hare as the deer'). Wikipedia (fr): fox, stag and wild boar besides rabbit and hare.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Range

FCI 34: slow, persevering driver of game that lets the gun keep up; short legs for dense cover. No distance printed.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Descriptive only.

Search pattern

FCI 34: tracks and flushes with great determination, driving the game not fast but with perseverance and giving voice; excellent nose and melodious voice; persevering but not too fast on the line, so the hunter can enjoy the work; hunts alone or in a pack. UKC history (editorial remark on the breed): some feel the streamlined breed lacks the original stamina and hound voice. Wikipedia (fr): may hunt in pack; low, deep, fairly powerful voice that carries far; fine nose, not fast on short legs but tireless; too-rough ground is beyond him.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Field trial standard

FCI 34: classified 'with working trial'. The Societe de Venerie recorded the breed in the 1930 standards book (FCI history). No trial rule text was read.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 34

Classification line only.

Water work

Wikipedia (fr): generally do not like water.

EditorialWikipedia (French)

Editorial; one outside source.

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How to read this page

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Also called: Norman Artesien Basset, BAN

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