Sometimes it's caused by an injury, sometimes diet, sometimes it seems to just happen. It is considered a serious fault. The Canadian standard states that any unsoundness of the legs or feet should absolutely disqualify a basset from taking a prize.
That said, I did once have a bitch with this fault, I finished and bred her. One of her pups and one of her grandpups had this problem as well, but both of them were raised on a food which I consider too "high test" for basset puppies, so I'm not 100% sure what caused it....
I guess for you it would depend just how far the turn out was, hers was minor enough to be able to stack her fairly straight in the ring. But good front are considered hard to breed, so if this is the foundation bitch for your breeding program you might want to consider whether you want to start out with this limitation and have to deal with it in the future.
[ August 29, 2004, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Soundtrack ]
That said, I did once have a bitch with this fault, I finished and bred her. One of her pups and one of her grandpups had this problem as well, but both of them were raised on a food which I consider too "high test" for basset puppies, so I'm not 100% sure what caused it....
I guess for you it would depend just how far the turn out was, hers was minor enough to be able to stack her fairly straight in the ring. But good front are considered hard to breed, so if this is the foundation bitch for your breeding program you might want to consider whether you want to start out with this limitation and have to deal with it in the future.
[ August 29, 2004, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Soundtrack ]
