Basset Hound ya dace da iyalai masu karamin lambu. Yana da mahimmanci a gare shi ya motsa jiki a kusa (a wuraren shakatawa, dazuzzuka, ko filayen). Ya kamata masu karnuka sun riga sun sami gogewa kuma su kasance masu dagewa.
Daidai lokacin da aka fara haifar Basset Hound yana da cece-kuce - amma asalinsa babu shakka ya ta'allaka ne a cikin tsoffin nau'ikan karnukan farauta na Faransa.
A ƙarshen karni na 19, basset hound ya bayyana a Ingila kuma ya zama sanannen kare don farauta a cikin fakiti - misali don farautar kurege. Ainihin, Basset Hound ba hound mai sauri ba ne, amma saboda kyakkyawan yanayin kamshi da ƙarfin jikinsa, ya kasance ƙamshin ƙamshi mai ƙima don farautar fakiti shekaru da yawa.