Ka-nai's mommy

Hello everyone! I am so excited to have found this forum! We picked up our new addition two weeks ago and have absolutely fallen in love with him! My husband and I were looking for a companion for our 19 month old son, and decided on a basset hound after considering all of our options! When we went to look at the puppies Ka-Nai was the first one to run up to my little man and it was love at first sight! After we got home with him though i began looking up blue bassets since i had never actually seen or heard of one! All of the information online actually states that blue is a bad color and can have many health problems! My Breeder assured me that blue is a recognized color of the breed and has never heard of any of these problems! So far so good! Does anyone on this site have any experience with a blue basset being any different from any other basset, or are these all myths? Anyways we love him more than anything and im so excited that he joined our growing family!

Esther

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Hiya and WELCOME! I don't claim to know a lot, but I seem to remember someone saying that the standard doesn't specify a color.

Mikey T

First up until 1964 blue was not an aceptacle color. That is when AKC eliminated reference to other breeds in the standard. Up until that time the standard ready any aceptacle fox hound color of which blue was not. Rather than name aceptable color the BHCA went with all colors being aceptable the wisdom of that decession is still being debated but changes in breed stands don't come easilu, so it has stay that way.

Many of the so called health risks of the blue color in basset are over blown or simply not true ie blindness etc which is a result of an entirely different gene than the dilution gene that casue the blue color. There are some well know and document problems however and they mostly relate to coat. The most common being Alopecia that is losd of hair. Most noteabley the ears and top of the muzzle can have abnormal lack of hair or hair loss but it can occur any where on the body. While not a basset I had a rescue beagle that had that problem virtual no hair on the ears or muzzle near the nose.

blue dilution
for an genetic of dilution and some of the problems associated with it.

Ka-nai's mommy

Ok not quite sure of how to add pictures into my post so i put a few of him in an album! Thanks a lot Mikey T its nice to finally know something! I could not find much information on my own. I am not going to breed him he is just going to be a family pet, and i forgot to mention that i did not pick him because of his color I picked him because he was the first to run up to us while all of his brothers were eating.

Wworm

Welcome and what cute pics!

what does Ka-Nai mean?
also, is she blue because of her eye color or coat color or...?

curious dog,
Worm

Ka-nai's mommy

Well i'm from south louisiana so we use the word Ka-Nai all the time, it means mischievous, actually spelt canaille. He is blue because of his coat color! Do you see how it is not black it is actually like a muted gray, that is considered blue.

Boomer's Mom

What a beautiful puppy! Welcome to the forums, you'll find a wealth of information and make lots of new friends here.

Mikey T

coat color, it is the result of a dilution gene, the color varries some whate between breeds my beagle for instance was a slate grey if stand by herself as the vet said "has a bit of mouse in her" it really is not that noticable until next to a tri and the dilution becomes very obvious. of corse there are individual differences in the amount of dilution that occurs as well some moch more than others.

the Blue eye color is the result of a vary different gene and is a serious fault in the breed.

Cassidy

Welcome! Ka-Nai is such a pretty boy. I can't wait to see what he'll look like when he gets bigger.

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Esther

ka-nai's momma,

i was born in louisiana... west monroe to be exact.
I'm in the land of Elvis now. I still like gumbo. but this pulled pork stuff is pretty cool too! btw, you gots purdy eyes