Six Week Evaluations: The Snack Cakes Litter: SuzyQ

 Beatrix O'Honey (AKC) and Rocketdog Rockford Rhoades (AKC) gave us seven wonderful babies in this litter and we couldn't be happier with the results at six weeks. This is Beatrix (Bit) O'Honey's (AKC) second full litter and Rocky's first.  We evaluate all of our litters using a six point pseudo objective standard and it is a good idea to become familiar with it by clicking here.

Bit O'Honey, out of the Dog Hills Farm in Idaho, is a good -pet quality Basset Hound. Outside of a few minor structural issues Honey is correct to form in most respects when compared to the AKC Standard for the breed. This makes her puppies pet quality and we will not be offering breeding rights for any of this litter. Honey paired with our younger male Rocketdog Rockford (Rocky) Rhoads (AKC), from our own Rocketdog stock. Rocky is a very good quality Basset when compared to the AKC Standard. His sire ClarkeBar Grizwold (AKC) is a very good quality, smaller form, male whose characteristics are all true to form; ClarkeBar is a very good example of the breed. Rocky's dame, Grizelda Laffee Taffee is a small form Basset out of Country Corner Bassets in Idaho. Taffee is a very good quality Basset, with exceptional Basset traits, who has thrown three wonderful litters. Many pups from ClarkeBar and Taffee were of show quality and have exceptional Basset characteristics. Our expectation is that Rocky's genetics, will shine through Honey's minor flaws, but that none of these will be better than very good as they grow into adulthood.

SuzyQ came to us on September 11th, 2022 at around 12:20 A.M. after an uncomfortable pause in whelping and weighed a scant 9.1 ounces. She has nearly doubled in weight every week since that night and today weighs a very healthy 11.1 pounds.

Little SuzyQ is a delightful puppy. She is a bit quieter than most of her littermates, a bit more careful in how she approaches the world too. But when she plays she goes all in and can hold her own against the more aggressive pups. But her focus, if such as this appears in Basset puppies, is in cuddling up with a human person. She is the epitome of what is called a "pet". The perfect puppy for a family, a robust, but somewhat retiring, family pet. 

SuzyQ is very well built physically. Her stance is very strong. Her hips are slender and flow smoothly from her strong sternum, large foreleg bones, and great big feet. SuzyQ will likely become a fairly large American styled Basset Hound and her bone structure is entirely in agreement with this. Though her head is not highly domed, her jaw set and ear set are pretty close to perfect.  She show all of the attributes of her American Basset Sire and few of the traits found in her Normande styles Dame. A very well built puppy.

Aesthetically, SuzyQ is nothing special. This is not to say that she is not very pretty. Her skin folds are spectacular and her fur has its good points, but is is likely that she will be average in appearance as she ages, this is to say very pretty. But her beauty is in her personality and bone structure. She will not win at show, but might take a ribbon home if challenged. 

SuzyQ receives all five of the points derived from the AKC Standard, there simply is little wrong with her build, she receives one half point for beauty.  SO all in all a five and one half point evaluation. She will make a wonderful addition to any family lucky enough to have her and everyone she meets will think her a pretty little girl.