The full size Hound it started as isn’t a heck of a lot different in the brain dept. Just longer legs. Same shape, same temperament, same clownish look. Same lovely musical voice. Just taller.
Yes, but the full-sized hound was the result of St. Hubert’s tinkering. Apparently it is thought that there was a mutation between the two—which some could seen as God’s response to Hubert’s original tinkering:
http://192.220.72.203/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52:origin-of-the-basset-hound