Byron Basset is a fictional basset hound from the Warner Bros. animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. Byron was voiced by Frank Welker. Although a direct connection is never made, Byron resembles Sam Sheepdog and The Barnyard Dog from Looney Tunes. Despite being depicted as being a lazy mongrel, he expresses many talents when properly motivated. Byron is most known for his somewhat malleable nature. In order to turn around, he pulls his head and tail inside the folds of his body, and out the other side. Byron is a pet of Elmyra Duff. His relationship towards her was antagonistic, due to her well meaning mistreatment, including painfully tight hugs and scalding hot baths. When faced with an opportunity to get away from her however, he remembered that she loved him and took him in, and reluctantly decided to stay. Byron's biggest role was in perhaps the direct-to-video movie Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation. There, he accidentally ends up joining Buster and Babs Bunny in their subplot of getting caught up in a river after a water gun fight. Near the end of the film, when Byron sees that the bunnies are surrounded by predators, he flies down (his malleable body flattening out and acting as a hand glider) and carries them to safety.
