I-Basset Hound iyifanele kahle imindeni enengadi encane. Kubalulekile kuye ukuzivocavoca eduze (emapaki, emahlathini, noma emasimini). Abanikazi bezinja kufanele vele banesipiliyoni futhi bagomele.
Ukuthi i-Basset Hound yazalaniswa nini okokuqala kunempikiswano - kodwa umsuka wayo ngokungangabazeki ilele ezinhlotsheni zezinja zokuzingela ezindala zaseFrance.
Ekupheleni kwekhulu le-19, i-basset hound yavela eNgilandi futhi yaba inja ethandwayo yokuzingela emaphaketheni - isibonelo ukuzingela onogwaja. Ngokuyisisekelo, i-Basset Hound ayiyona i-hound esheshayo, kodwa ngenxa yenzwa yayo yokuhogela enhle kakhulu kanye nomzimba wayo oqinile, ibilokhu iyisilwane esinephunga elimnandi sokuzingela amaphakethe amashumi eminyaka.