After the sad loss of Nelson, the world's crappest but loveliest mongrel, last year, and a suitable period of mourning, we will next week be taking possession of these two beauties:
Really looking forward to it, they're smashing dogs. Anyone got beagles and care to share any tips? And pics, obvs...
I knew a guy that had two, named Mac and Tosh.
They wrecked his house. Apparently destructive tendencies is a bit of a breed trait.
Oh good.
As is escapology and eating anything they can get their paws on.
There's an old joke 'what do you call a man, walking by himself, carrying a dog's lead? - a beagle owner'
Good luck!
( To be honest I'm sure they'll be terrific )
I'm not sure this is helping...
They also love dogfighting.
In a Sopwith Camel
My sister has one, it's a lovely dog, but by god it stinks.
Eats anything including shit, and not just its own.
Lovely dog though.
I've had 2 beagles in my time. Ace dogs. Great temperament.
Bad news is they will run away, and they eat anything..
we know a couple of Beagle owners ,never ever let them of the lead in an open space .
As is escapology and eating anything they can get their paws on.
There’s an old joke ‘what do you call a man, walking by himself, carrying a dog’s lead? – a beagle owner’
Good luck!
( To be honest I’m sure they’ll be terrific )
I was given the following advice from a Beagle Owner
If you ever get a pair of Beagles, pick a favourite out of the two, because at some point they will both run off and in opposite directions. So you need to know which to chase
My brother has just got one, eats everything the moment it get's bored, usually within an hour of being left alone, and poos (often projectile and/or explosively) everywhere shortly afterwards.
*sob*
Loving this thread...and to think I was considering a Beagle. Seemingly only an idiot would have have one, let alone two...
When I was at school, family of a mate had one. It was left at home when they went out one evening. They came back to find the dining room trashed - even the table was overturned.
These look nice though, I'm sure they'll be fine.
My goodness - look at the images when you search "Beagle destruction" on Google.
They are working dogs (intelligent) you need to use that intelligence or they can be destructive.
They love to follow a scent hence the running off.
But if you train them well, exercise them well and play games that uses their intelligence,you have two lovely super cute/affectionate dogs - that could still run off if you don't keep a keen eye on them for at least first few years!!
I recall ours going through a stage of knowing it shouldn't run off after a scent ie it would look to see if I was watching and if I wasn't...see old accurate joke in post above.
Had one for 16 years.
She would eat anything she could get in her mouth.
Constantly escaping, just jumped the 6’fence, or ate her way through it. Once disappeared for a week and wandered back as if nothing had happened.
She’d vanish on walks when off the lead and reappear at home hours later, usually covered in fox poo.
Mega affectionate and I absolutely loved her but I swore I’d never have another.
My sister has 2, they are basically the same but appear to act as a little gang of 2 and conspire against doing anything she actually wants them to do unless it’s eat.
Mrs’ friend has one. Never off the lead unless they don’t want to see it for a few hours. Once ate the entire contents of the fridge after her daughter left it open by mistake.
Awesome dogs but you’re a brave, brave man!
That top one looks shifty - already plotting! 🙂
I seem to recall that they are almost impossible to train and, once they get a scent, will cheerfully just wander away.
Do you trail run? That might be handy. Maybe budget for a new pair of running shoes
I wonder if IHN did any research before choosing a beagle 🤷♂️🧟♂️🤦♂️
Hmm. Dogs Trust collars. “Pre-owned” pooches by any chance?
I quite fancied a beagle until an earlier thread about them on here put me completely off them. But I'm sure all the dire warnings above don't apply to your lovely looking pair. What could possibly go wrong?
I used to have one but couldn't afford the fags.
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Got this pair of reprobates from the Dog's Trust in Leeds in October '17, both around one year old at the time. Details were sketchy but we learned they were a bit too much work and energy for the previous owner. They haven't been cheap during the settling in phase, about 5 remote controls, a nice Indian rug, two S-Max seatbelts, a chunk of the living room carpet were early casualties.
Recall isn't perfect, but not terrible. If we're in the woods and I call and whistle consistently for twenty minutes while breathlessly chasing the sound of her howling at the base of a tree, I can get within ten feet of her, at which point she gives me a mild look of disdain and scoots off in the other direction, to be repeated for the next two and a half hours until she's had enough, at which point she'll reappear with a look that says "time for my bath and a good snooze on the comfiest surface you've left unguarded". She's brilliant.
ok, try again:
IHN - please can we have a weekly [s] destruction [/s] diary report please.
Bloody Hell MrTricky, is that Johnny Dawes' dog?
Do you trail run? That might be handy.
Have a read at Chris Boardman's Autobiography for his tale of taking a Beagle out for a run.
I have a cross beagle spaniel. 75% beagle.
Always food scavenging. He needs daily exercise. 10km runs are OK.
He doesn't chew anything in the house.
But
Some friends have one. It broke its legs attempting to get food (in fairness it did so 10/10 for commitment ). Get good insurance.
I have a cross beagle spaniel. 75% beagle.
We do too, and have experienced all of the negative behaviours above. Rolling in, and eating poo is probably the most disgusting habit. The bin has been emptied so many times and as a pup she was at the vets a lot due to eating stuff she shouldn't (roll of insulation tape, box of chocolates etc..) so get insurance. She can open doors and the fridge, and jump on the kitchen worktop so the kitchen has to be locked when we go out. Prey drive is pretty strong too, as a pup she would chase rabbits until she was exhausted.
On the plus side, she is really easy to train because she'll do anything for food. Is incredibly affectionate and we don't have to empty the kittens litter tray!
This thread has made my day.
This thread has made my day.
I’m looking forward to next week when we get the “Which new sofa / kitchen units / cage / GPS dog tracker” thread.
Brother in law has 2 of them, fantastic temperament and are company for each other.
However love rolling in poo or dead animals, can spend hours searching for them in the woods and will eat absolutely anything.
He would have 2 again without question, madman.
Mine rolled in poo a few times but not that often.
When living in the UK, he would chase cats and foxes in the garden, jumping up the fence. One day he caught himself on a nail sticking out.
Opened his whole side, skin was flapping. 20 double stitches.
IHN, still really looking forward to it? 😂
Yes, I fancied getting a beagle until I read some old threads on here. I can't be doing with not being able to let a dog off the lead when you're out walking.
That said though, for all their habits, they generally seem to be very well loved by their owners and make lovely family pets from what I can gather.
Great thread. 🙂
Everybody likes the beagles.
The wife wanted a beagle, I pointed her to some of the threads and videos kicking about and we ended up with a lovely GSP/GWP cross 😆
edit- And from that clip above, clearly an intelligent breed 😉
Here's Bruar
So handsome!
I love this thread. Thank you so very much for getting a rescue dog, it's a wonderful thing to do.
I spent last weekend on the coast and my friend brought her rescue Beagle. She rescued her last November and she was a bit challenging to begin with but she is settling in quite nicely. She seems to enjoy eating anything/everything she shouldn't and has boundless amounts of energy. After walking for 6.5 hours on Saturday, she decided it was time to chase any other dog she could see. Her recall is quite could but she is easily distracted. Enjoys scampering off into the woods but always returns after a few minutes. She gets on well with other dogs and socialises well.
She is very affectionate however, when she was initially re-homed she would avoid and growl at men but she is now much more accepting of men. She is more than happy to come and sit next to me and will enjoy limitless attention from me.
Enjoy your pups and please keep us updated.
Great thread. 🙂
Everybody likes the beagles.
Classic. Showing your age there mate.
We've got Bella the Beagle/Spaniel cross, she's a bit mental, would post a picture but can't be bothered tracking down a host site.
She likes to open post if left in the house (with 2 other dogs for company) to many times during the day, so far she has opened
Catalogues
Contact Lens deliveries
At least 3 jackets that the wife has bought (the wife has a jacket addiction)
A motorcycle security chain and ground anchor
Several random letters
Somehow she has managed to avoid damaging any of the internal contents apart from piercing only 1 one of 28 contact lens containers. She shreds the packaging and then loses interest apparently.
We've also had to put a sheet of perspex on the wall to protect it from her "attentions" whenever someone comes home.
Despite this and definitely being a bit ADHD she's brilliant.
We got a beagle cross from Cardiff Dogs Home in Nov. Never had a dog before so its been a bit of a learning curve! He is a lovely thing, great with the kids, loves walks, loves chilling out with us on the sofa. He is mental for food eg.
Ate a large pack of biscotti just before Christmas
Ate a loaf of bread- from a shelf seven feet up
Ate/ drank a vat of fish soup
Ate about a weeks worth of dogs biscuits from a high shelf behind a closed door. He was noticeably fatter!
I see a few people around with Beagles often off the lead so you might be OK. Mine mainly stays on the lead as he wants to say hello to everyone, ie jump up at them.
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My friend has a beagle. It once was unattended in the kitchen for 20 minutes and ate an entire BBQ meat selection meant for 10 people that had been left on the worktop. This included 30 frozen sausages.
The dog was found at the foot of the stairs shaped like a barrel, freezing cold from the frozen sausages and, amazingly, a greenish colour.
She was whisked to the vet who reported, appalled, to the owners that on the way to the xray room, the beagle had leapt out of the nurses arms to sniff around a bin that was ajar on the floor.
To detail its other escape attempts and household destruction would take too long.
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We had one when I was young, the thing was a walking dustbin, hated cats with a passion to the extent that he ran through a greenhouse out through the glass the other side cutting himself to bits and didn't stop until he realised it was a lost cause and gave up. Would shag anything he could mount including a Yorkshire Terrier which actually produced puppies.And finally if he escaped for the garden would disappear until he was ready to come home after clearing the bins and shagging his way around the village.
That said he was a lovely dog.
Funniest thread in Yonks.
Great Friday thread...
As a former Beatle owner this thread is brilliant..all so true.
That said, they are amazing dogs, real characters. You'll love them I guarantee it!
We have a beagle cross and it’s making me laugh about all the above. So true. Incidents include when she caught a pheasant and it took hours to get her back as every time I got close she would growl and run off. Whilst chasing a squirrel and not seeing the barbed wire. We got her as a puppy and she’s 7 now and a lot calmer. Love her to bits
We had Willow, a beagle border collie cross. She's burried beneath one of the trees in the garden now after twelve years of pure frustration and fun. It was a while before we could trust her around livestock which is a bit of a problem in the Beacons. After wandering off during a night ride she was cornered by a wise old ewe who kept her penned and shaky into a corner. She never bothered sheep after that. Or horses; and cows terrified her. But squirells, cats and the foxes that were fornicating in the woods caused her to get totally mental, as did the owls, doorbell, postman, people parking near the house and any manner of other random things.
She loved eating ANY manner of sh-t she could find and would roll in it to embed it in her fur as deeply as she could. Her best effort was one hot spring day when she found a rotting pony carcass near Ystradfellte and became fully immersed in it. I was gagging trying to wash her down in the tiny stream and the drive home was phenomenal.
She always loved running with the bike and took part in so many bothy trips where she would always get pampered by all and sundry. At trail centers she stuck to my back wheel brilliantly on the ups and flat bits but was not averse to cutting corners on the descents when she got a bit older. She knew her way around Brechfa, Cwmyrhaidr and my local trails well.
She raided the bins regularly, eating so much junk. She also ate my Icelandic lopi jumper 🙁
If we left the door open she was gone, perhaps for hours, possibly days but usually only overnight. We'd get phone calls to come and collect her from local houses when she got in and curled up on the bed. Her recall was really poor if you delayed it by more than a few seconds so we had to be totally vigilant at all times.
Not a beagle owner, but have had basset hounds for over 25 years - stubborn, wilful but very loyal and lovable. Watson is now 12 and has slowed down a bit, but with a 15-month old Labrador rescue having arrived in the last 6 weeks, he has a bit more vigour in life. With any hound they are social animals, hate being left alone or will howl the place down. We rarely let him off-lead as he'll get on the track for some deer or any furry creature or find some stinky and fetid to roll in.
Always, but always take the full pack of dog poo bags with you. Our one never stood still while taking a dump. For such a small dog he used to produce so much crap on one walk.
Our first dog was a mutt and on reading this realise she had a lot of beagle in her.
Would run off and never come back.
Things she ate include a wasp that stung her mouth , a lug worm on a hook that was being cast by a fisherman..hook through mouth, any plastic bag that ever contained meat , the cable to a side lamp, bang , a kangaroo skin and and used to drink the washing up water going into the drain after washing up after a roast.
We had a dog when I was a kid that got a fishing hook stuck in her mouth. Absolute nightmare.
Ambrose.
Pics of your dog please, she sounds like she was awsumz.😎
Bloody Hell MrTricky, is that Johnny Dawes’ dog?
Agreed. Quarrymantastic....
absolutely horrid dogs - good luck! hounds shouldn't be pets imo.. my misses has one and it's a right needy dick even after 10 miles of walks a day and all the affection.
Years ago I got a job in a local town, as a country boy I was appalled to see the manager ,who commuted 40 miles, open the back door of his BMW and out popped a beagle which promptly disappeared into the distance without a backward glance nor a comment from the owner.It transpired that this happened every day, the guy was not allowed to leave the hound at home due to it's destructive tendencies and he had no inclination to have it in his office or take it walkies at lunch or whenever. Come 5.30 the mutt would either be sitting by the car or nowhere to be seen, notwithstanding the guy simply hopped in and drove off. The beagle would NEVER be there next morning.I had never seen behaviour like this before,dog husbandry on a level completely alien to me.The chap didn't bat an eyelid over his missing pet but as often as not the beagle would be back by the car the next evening covered in something unmentionable and usually unidentifiable. I can only assume that the beast probably arrived late for the commute home and on seeing his transport had left made off to seek a feed and billet for the night before his next days adventure in the locality, this creatures ability to calmly adapt and survive has never ceased to fill me with admiration, along with it's owners almost callous laissez-faire attitude to dog keeping.One evening I was out late in the local woods and could hear a dog howling , I followed the sound until I came upon the roaming beagle caught in a snare, the brute had the sense to sit and howl for help rather than struggle, incredible, I freed it and to my surprise it looked at me like I was responsible and disappeared into the gloom, the bloody thing, next day at work not even a nod of recognition from the damn hound.Beagles,eh ?
“IHN – please can we have a weekly destruction diary report please.”
+1,Pretty please. Maybe take some pics of your lovely home before they arrive.
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Do they have names?
IHN , think of the van .....
Agreed. Quarrymantastic…
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Do they have names?
Chewie and Bolt?
Regardless of the official names I suspect our two new friends may go be the monikers of “oh for ****s sake” and “****ing stop it”
good luck. You had a lovely house...!
Ours used to like eating carpet underlay. We now have hard-surface flooring throughout the grout floor.
Right, so, having been back to see them again yesterday, and a good hard think about it, we've decided that beagles are probably not for us...
They've got a second reserve waiting on them, so they'll find a home.
The search continues. Anyone have huskies....?
Err, you got yourself off the hook with the Beagles, do not even think about Huskies.
I have a Beagle cross Spaniel, I'd have said you'd be ok with one dog, but not two...
Having multiple dogs is best with them being about 4 years apart, makes life easier and has a natural 12 year cycle. Having two of similar age, can cause all sorts of problems.
Good luck with the search.
Congratulations for not ruining your life - you've made a wise decision!
Err, you got yourself off the hook with the Beagles, do not even think about Huskies.
Whoosh.
Right, so, having been back to see them again yesterday, and a good hard think about it, we’ve decided that beagles are probably not for us…
Booooooo!
If STW was a PLC it's share price will have just plummeted.
(probably a good call though!)
Anyone have huskies….? 😀
Now that my wife has given up work we'd decided to look into rehoming a dog however hadn't realised how difficult it was if, like us, you had no experience. One of the dogs we'd originally inquired about was a Beagle but reading this thread I'm glad they didn't think it was right for us.
We have made progress though and should be getting this chap at the weekend:
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Chewie and Bolt?
No Chewie and Jive, proper forum dogs!
We have made progress though and should be getting this chap at the weekend:
Oooh! Labradors can be tricky.
Some of them are highly magnetic