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24/9/2014 at 5:25pm
Location: Derbyshire
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My youngest daughter has an 8mth old Beagle Girl, shes being crate trained to stop her wrecking the house as she can be very distructive scratching at carpets and chewing just about everything in her path given half a chance. Shes lucky enough to have a fairly large garden to play in, but her favourite passtime is digging, and she can tunnel a fairly deep hole within a few mins. Shes a lovely family pet with our young grandchildren, and is very gentile with them, but along with other beagles she does suffer with separation anxiety, and will bark and cry if shes left in the house alone if they have to go out for a few hours. Shes also prone to drenching you with exitement litterally as she has poor bladder control if you pick her up for a fuss. Shes not as easy as their previous dog Charlie, a labrador was to train as a puppy, but they do let her off lead for a run up in our fields, and she is fairly good at coming back when called.
She has more of a fear of being separated from them than she has a desire to escape and run away.
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26/9/2014 at 5:36pm
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We've had a beagle for 7 years now and added a cockerpoo to the mix about a year ago. It wasn't until going through the puppy stage again after such a long gap that we realised just how hard the beagle was as a young dog.
Bentley (the beagle) is a wonderful dog to have around and his behaviour is more cat like than anything, he sleeps lots and lots and makes a fuss when you come home but generally entertains himself most of the day. When we're out he's brilliant and doesn't trash anything, although he used to destroy anything in his path as a pup. He chewed through several pairs of shoes, lots and lots of charging cables for various devices, waste paper bins, the carpet on the bottom stair, anything he could get hold of other than his toys basically  .
When we're out he is great on the lead but doesn't come off any more, he was attacked by another dog and since then we've had great difficulties getting him to socialise with other dogs. His recall is terrible and he has a really short concentration span so training has always been a difficult task. We used to allow him off leash with other dogs that we knew had excellent recall skills because we knew that he would come running back with the other dogs. Sadly this isn't the case any more because since he was attacked he has a habit of running home if he sees a dog he doesn't like the look of and he has crossed a fairly busy road a couple of times.
His nature if wonderful though, he is so loving and calm, absolutely fantastic around young children. He'll happily be stroked by anyone and everyone when he's out. He's not particularly playful though, he's happy to just sit next to you rather than run around chasing balls.
We call him our grumpy old man, he's very stubborn at times and every now and again it's easier to just leave him alone rather than fuss to get him to do something. He is food obsessed and if he manages to pinch some food from the kitchen that he knows he shouldn't have it's nigh on impossible to get it off him. However, if you give him a pigs ear or a treat and then ask him for it back he'll happily give it to you.
Every dog breed has some quirk that makes owning them interesting but at the end of the day you love them all the same!
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