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Here's the Best of Breed Basset from Thursday's Crufts...Ch Switherland Touch N The Dark with Sasilasy. And, below, is the 2012 Crufts BOB that failed the vet check, Buzz Lightyear at Dereheath.
It's quite an improvement, isn't it?
Now as this picture from a different angle shows, the Bassets are not yet home and dry. The 2013 winner's eyes do not look sore or inflamed, but he has clear and evident ectropion which will always put his eyes at risk.
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It's perfectly possible to breed for a tighter eye in Bassets - as this hunting Basset from the Albany pack illustrates:
For fairness, here's Ch Switherland Touch N The Dark with Sasilasy, from a similar angle - pretty clean, too.
So well done the Bassets. It made my day to see this.
And I'm not just saying that because co-owner Calum Twaddle was fined recently for threatening to beat the crap out of one particularly obnoxious small-time poodle breeder who had insulted him on line. Now of course I am not one to condone violence but in this particular instance a medal would have been more appropriate.
