Chew Chew the basset hound is my almost mute basset hound. Yes, he can bark, but no, he doesn’t bark very often. Sometimes people mispell this type of dog as a bassett hound. Some people even go outright bonkers wrong and call him a weiner dog or a hound dog or — worse yet — a beagle. He has beagle coloring (tri color) but he’s a basset hound through and through