Alice White
#4 Since the Middle Ages, in the books and manuscripts of French historians, notes began to slip about squat dogs from the tribe of artesian-Norman hounds, who were involved in burrowing and searching for truffles.
#5 In written sources, animals were referred to as bassets and were depicted as short-legged dogs with massive bones.
#6 By the way, the characteristic short stature inherent in all modern representatives of this family was an elementary mutation, which was subsequently artificially fixed by breeders.
