Video: Slow motion video shows why it is so hard being a basset hound Basset hounds are strange looking creatures and it is hard to see how they can run with all that extra skin and long ears. This wonderful slow motion video of Navi, a Basset Hound from Colorado, shows just exactly how ungainly it can be. But Navi's enthusiastic gait hides the fact that just two years ago she was given just months to live. In 2012 Navi was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in her spleen, but after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy she is now running around again and promising to become an Internet sensation.