My Grand-dogs

[1955vintage]

Bassets are great with kids, watch this one let the little girl clean her ears!

[Michael Rolls]

oh, how lovely - and how tolerant a doggie!

[Cassandra]

They really are superb dogs, incredibly 'phleg'- matic!

[dextrous63]

Ah that scene!!

She says something like "you're a very kind man"

Columbo replies "don't count on it"

[muddy]

Only bassets are worse than beagles for ignoring owners.

Beagles are cute but they are hounds and hounds are notoriously one minded .
They want to hunt something .
They are not into obedience .
Beagles will cheerily ignore their owners and go off after a rabbit returning 8 or so hours later .
All the Beagle owners I have known suffer stress and worry over their beagles and eventually end up never letting them off the lead when out .

[Alex]

Ours are only let off the lead at ' doggie play school' where the field in enclosed.  On walks they've never been off the lead, they wouldn't come back.