Mum loved Basset hounds, we had a Purebred “Rebecca”, who we had paired with another purebread, and kept one of the resulting pups also (“Cleo”).

Bassets are very intelligent, loyal and lovely pets, but I remember Rebecca had a wicked sense of humour – she used to specialise in sneaking up behind you and unleashing a single deeeeep bark from hell, just because the human reaction amused her. Rebecca was a tri-colour (black, tan, white), whereas Cleo was a bi-colour (tan and white).

Their body shape is distinct, and this origami design captures the actual dog morphology really well (prolly the best I have seen, and I have looked long and hard for suitable basset models to fold). Their stocky body, large shoulders, ridiculous amount of extra loose skin, pendulous ears and face that is south of where it needs to be make them quite adorable.

Mum misses “the girls”, so I folded her a pair – this one, designed by David Illescas, along with Lee Jae Gu’s. I used the same size paper and they really look good together – a nice memento for her to remember her favourite pets.

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