Meet the Basset Breeds

  1. Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen
    Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen
  2. Petit Basset Griffon Vemdéen
    Petit Basset Griffon Vemdéen
  3. Basset
    Basset
  4. Basset Fauve de Bretagne
    Basset Fauve de Bretagne
  5. Basset Bleu de Gascogne
    Basset Bleu de Gascogne
  6. Basset Artésien Normand
    Basset Artésien Normand
Welcome to Meet the Basset Breeds
This new Meet the Basset Breeds website now incorporates bgvcommunity, a popular website that was built in 2010 to give BGV owners more information about their favourite breed.   Here you can read about all the shorter-legged scenthounds, which originated in France.  You can see a little about the history of each,  the Breed Standards (the ideal of what the breed should look like) and some extended Breed Standards designed to help judges expand their knowledge.  There is also advice on health care, feeding, grooming and much more.  

Important Health Issues

Primary Glaucoma is an inherited canine condition. 
It is sub-divided into two types - Closed Angle Glaucoma (PCAG) and Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG).  In both forms the result is reduced drainage of fluid within the eye, causing a build-up of pressure, which in turn leads to pain and blindness.  Learn more on the Health page about the DNA testing now available to detect whether your Basset or PBGV carries the recessive gene responsible.   
Extended Breed Standards
Is it a Petit or a Grand? 
There are important features that differentiate the two breeds.  If you are a judge or just curious to learn more
about each breed, have a look at the Extended Breed Standards on this website.

Yesterday's BGV Winners


I​N 1988 the first club championship show for PBGVs was held in England. From 1992 the GBGVs joined them with their own “import register” classes. GBGV breed classes came in 1997, then their first Challenge Certificates in 2006. 2012 marked the 25th year of these shows.

T​HANKS TO photographic records from these events, we can look back at the winners over this milestone quarter century – many of whom, if not champions at the time, went on to attain this honour and are the forebears of UK and overseas BGVs of today.
BGVC winners 1988-2012