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UKC Scenthound · FCI standard 35
Basset Bleu de Gascogne.
FCI 35: hound used to hunt with the gun, sometimes for coursing, as much on his own as in a pack (Group 6 Scenthounds, Section 1.3 small-sized scenthounds, with working trial). UKC: a basset (low-slung) hound of superior type, excellent in a pack or on his own, evolved directly from the Grand Bleu. RKC: short-legged hound from South West France. Wikipedia (fr): originally a hunting dog, now more often kept as a companion; a gun-hunting breed..
Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.
The body
What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.
Height at the shoulder
Low and high span FCI and UKC; one band for both sexes in both standards. No center.
Coat
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense = 4). No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Exercise need
RKC band 'more than 2 hours' mapped to 150 min by the library rule. Not measured.
Exercise need
Energy
Kept as text only; no Dogs Trust or Teng row exists for this breed.
Grooming load
RKC band 'once a week' = 2 (weekly brush).
Grooming
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
Registry sources only: no non-registry source (breed club, hunting press, Wikipedia) could be read from this environment.
Primary game
Only FCI states quarry; UKC and RKC do not.
Search pattern
Pack and single work are both stated.
Field trial standard
Working-trial rules not read.
How to read this page
Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.
Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 2 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.
- Also called
- Blue Gascony Basset, Basset Bleu
Every breed, read the same way.
The breed index grows as entries clear the standard. Gun dogs first.
All published breedsYour basset bleu de gascogne, on the record.
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