A question for Daisy's Mom or any Basset Hound Owner

[ilovehounds]

Hi, I have a beagle/basset hound cross who does this crazy thing with his food, I have a beagle and she doesn't do it so I thought it might be a basset hound thing.

I give him his dish of food, he will eat alittle bit of it but then he flips the dish with his nose, pushes the food in a pile and tries to cover it up. He does this everytime I feed him and I end up cleaning it up because if I don't my beagle or my mothers German Shepherd will.

My mom has seen him do this and she says he looks like a little pig digging for food, but the people I took him from had him tied in a pigs pen so I don't know if he is doing this because he saw the pigs doing it or its just something bassets do ?

Im afraid he might not be eating a good amount before he tips it.

So anyway :0) is this a basset trait or a nother problem he has because of the abuse he went through before I got him ?

[Daisy's Mom]

Hello ILoveHounds. I don't think this is a Basset trait. Daisy doesn't do that. I really have no advice on what to do about it either, you'll have to wait for the advice of some of our more knowledgably Pet Talk friends But no, this is not a Basset trait. Good luck with your hound!