Wanda ba kasafai yake jin tausayi ba yana duban karnukan Basset Hound. "Sausage mai gajeren zango tare da manyan kunnuwa" - da alama waɗannan an tsara waɗannan karnuka ne kawai don kwance a kan kujera kuma suna nishaɗantar da maƙeransu da dabaru masu ban dariya. Amma babu abin da yaudara kamar bayyanar basset hound.
A cikin dogon sutturar jikin mutum an rufe shi da gaske mahaukaci hound kare, wanda kyawawan halayen aiki suka nuna godiya da haɓaka wakilan ƙasashen biyu.
Hotunan farko na karnukan farauta tare da gajeren zango ya kasance tun a karni na 16 kuma ana samun su a Faransa, inda magabatan Basset Hound na zamani - artesian-Norman hound - suka nuna ikonsu na yin gajiyawa tare da ɓarna yayin da suke farauta burush. Powerfularancin iko mai ƙarfi, wanda, mai yiwuwa, ya tashi ne sakamakon maye gurbi kuma an daidaita shi yayin kiwo, ya zama ba matsala ga magabatan baass na zamani, amma tallafi ne a cikin dogon lokacin da ya ratsa cikin gandun daji, ya taimaka ya lalata ƙasa a ƙarƙashin rassan rassan, ya karya ramuka.
A hankali, amfani da waɗannan karnukan beagle sun faɗaɗa kuma daga mafarautan farauta sun zama beagles don ƙaramin wasa: zomaye, pheasants, raccoons. A dabi'ance, ana amfani da bassets ne kawai a kan farautar ƙafa, saboda sun kasa yin tsayayya da saurin dawakai. Za a iya kiran masu ba da fata mai sha biyu Faransawa - Count Lekure da Monsieur Lana, waɗanda da gangan suka shiga cikin zaɓar waɗannan karnukan beagle. Sakamakon haka, an sami kashi biyu na nau'in, wanda ake kira "basset Lekure" da "basset Lana."
A cikin 60s na karni na XIX, waɗannan katako na Faransa sun bayyana a Ingila. A nan, halayen aikin Faransanci sun yanke shawarar ƙarfafawa kuma sun fara ƙetare Basset tare da ƙananan jinin jini na gida. Don haka mai shayarwar ya karbi sunan zamani "Basset Hound", wanda ke nufin "low hound" da bayyanar al'ada a gare mu - jiki mai tsayi tare da gajerun kafafu da manyan kunnuwa. A cikin 1883, an kirkiro da "ƙungiyar Basset" a Ingila, wanda aka fara bayyana da kuma karɓar ƙa'idodin tsarin Basset Hound, kuma a farkon karni na 20, ƙungiyoyi masu binciken ilimin halittu na duniya sun amince da Basset.