Six Week Evaluations: The Lady Drinks Litter(s): Daquiri

Grizelda Laffee Taffee and ClarkeBar Grizwold gave us seven very good pups in this litter and even in this litter of great pups Daquiri is a stand out great little Basset Hound. This is one happy and patient little all American boy. Taffee is an exceptionally pretty, small, European styled Basset. ClarkeBar is a very good example of the American styled Basset. Together they produce heavily boned, robust, babies in the American style. 

At six weeks Daquiri shows real promise. He has the highly domed head shape, great ear placment and size, and well formed facial fews, to develop into a potential show winner. His little frame is heavy of bone, his feet are quite large and his body tapers from front to back smoothly before coming to wasp waist and chunky backside. Daquiri has great stance, perhaps the best predictor of long termed hip health. His sire is now eight years old and has no bone health issues, but it is still too early to tell with the dame. Physically he is about as good as I have seen at six weeks. 

Aesthetically Daquiri is quite pleasing. He is a tri-colored Basset who seems mostly black and white today, but he will eventually show much more brown in the mix.   His coloring is mostly symmetrical, especially in the face, his white nose is distinctive and shows his inner beauty. 

Combining his good form with his pleasing appearance, and adding a patient demeanor to an generally happy and cuddly breed, makes for a real winner. (Perhaps a show winner if given the right training.) Daquiri recieves all five points for conforming to the AKC Standard, and the one point for Beauty. A six point evaluation is usually rare, but not in Taffee's litters.We think Daquiri might be bred with other good examples of the breed to improve the breed in general. He is a great example of the all American styled Basset Hound.