Our Story & How Baggy Bassets Started....
We are the Garnet family, a family of 5 that live on a small farm in the White Mountains in Vernon just outside of Show Low Arizona. Puppies are raised in our home in Show Low Arizona but we also have family in Gilbert and travel back and forth so we can arrange pick up in the valley. I grew up with Basset hounds. Taffy Mae was my first and we literally grew up together. When I decided to get another basset hound Lucy fell into my lap and I fell head over heels all over again for basset hounds. She is everything Taffy Mae was and she filled a void in my heart that I didn't know was there. She grew up with my girls and was my daughters' best friend. She reminded me how loyal, patient, and loving this breed is with children. I was addicted all over again. Lucy has since been retired. For us at Baggy Bassets, raising a litter of puppies is a family affair. Everyone is heavily involved as they are in the middle of our life and home. Every puppy is raised with hands-on love, attention, and care from our entire family. From their very first days until they leave for their forever homes, our puppies are surrounded by love.​ We are raising family members!​
My mother has been a dog breeder since I was a very young girl. She is no longer breeding today, she passed away. As a child growing up I had a lot of dogs and puppies in my life and I learned everything I know from her. But I have continued learning genetics, diseases, color and socialization for growing puppies. She had raised English Bulldogs for 30 plus years and I have been right along her side as she was learning herself. The passion I have for dogs has been instilled in me since I was a very young girl. So it was only natural that I continued in my mom's footsteps but Bulldogs were not for me. So I found the breed for me- Bassets Hounds! My dogs are more our pets and part of the family. Please take a few moments to look over our website and if you have any questions whatsoever feel free to contact us!I strive to create beautiful European/American mix basset hounds. I feel the American mixed into the European lines brings health to the lines. While European basset hounds are not necessarily unhealthy, their excessive rolls and thicker skin does cause a higher maintenance pup. The American are healthy, have tighter skin and less wrinkles, have a slight higher energy, and can keep up in the field if asked to. We believe in mixing American and European bloodlines to produce a stockier basset hound with long ears, droopy eyes, and loose wrinkly skin but health of an American hound! We think it creates the perfect hound!
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Our dogs are all a part of our family and are spoiled by our 3 children. Our goal is and will always be to produce sound, healthy, happy well rounded basset hound babies that families enjoy! But first and foremost, we focus on health and temperament. Only the best basset houds make our program and then all are genetic tested and only officially added to our breeding program if they pass those tests. We follow the puppy culture program for a highly socialized puppy. They are raised in our bedroom for the first few weeks until they are upgraded from the whelping area to a weaning/potty training area. They are used to family sounds of vaccuming, yelling, clanging of pots and pans, and everything that goes with a busy family home! They are taken on car rides, cuddled, and obstacles are built for them to climb over to build confidence! Know you are getting a great family member when you get a Baggy Basset baby! All of our dogs and puppies are loved from day 1. We give them names, get to know them and LOVE THEM. We will be picky about where they go.