Are Bassets easy to housebreak?
A. I would say they are average. It is not a strength of Bassets. However, we do three things to help make the process reasonable: 1.The way we house our mothers and puppies they can get outside 24 hours a day after the puppies are about 2 weeks old. So that, by the time they are about 7 weeks old, they are going outside to do most all of their “business. Instinctively dogs want to go away from their nest and here they can act on that instinct and develop the habit of going outside. That doesn’t mean that they are automatically housebroken in your house. It just helps. 2. We do everything we can to have healthy puppies leave here. (Sick puppies do not train well.) 3. We give each customer a (currently) 6 page set of instructions, that includes mores than 2 pages on housebreaking, and go over that before the puppy leaves here.
