I was walking my beagles on 26 foot retractable leashes. We turned a corner past a building and there was a huge Mastiff in a yard with its face jammed up against the chain link fence barking like crazy. Nordberg my female beagle ran straight at it, jumped up and bounced right off his face. Then walked away with an attitude of my job is done. I was so shocked when she started running at the fence. The mastiff backed up for a minute then started bellowing at her.
I had a Beagle maybe fifteen years ago.
Said Beagle would regularly do the following to the much older and much bigger Shih Tzu:
- Run up, bite generally peaceful Shih Tzu on the tail
- Bay for like five minutes ("HEEEEYYYYYYY!!! I’M A BEAAAAAAGLLLLEEEEE! REEEEEEESPECT MEEEEEEEEE!)
- Eat the Shih Tzu’s food
- Hide under the couch
It only got hilarious when the Shih Tzu stopped resisting, and just took it. Yep, I had a a Beagle and a coward Shih Tzu. The poor Shih Tzu would have starved to death if I hadn’t taken to spraying the Beagle in the nose with a water bottle when it tried to eat the Shih Tzu’s food.
The cocky Beagle still body-checked the Shih Tzu out of the way whenever both had to pass through the same doorway. Even if said doorway was big enough for five dogs to go through abreast at the same time.
What a dick dog. I loved them both, though.
We had a beagle that was the exact opposite. He was a lover of all other four legged beasts, with the exception of squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits.
Our beagle got chased under the deck by my in-law’s dog…a three pound Chihuahua.
I am on my 3rd and 4th Beagles now. I love their attitude. They are independent like a cat, but warm and fuzzy too. But their bodies are just a device to carry a nose.
I was in the park and found a animal hole. I pointed it out to Quincy. He came over and gave it a sniff. Then blew his nose like he snorted bicarb and then turned and walked away with an attitude that I was totally incompetent. Excuse me. He acted like I was below him because I was a bipedal, no nose.
I always thought that Snoopy’s supper-time dance was poetic license until I got a beagle. When we got our puppy, we did the basic training (sit, stay, down, roll-over) with treats as a reward. Even today, if you get out some pepperoni, he’ll go through them all trying to figure out what it takes (“Sit? You want sit? No, how about roll over? Down, I can do down. No? SIT!? I’M DOING SIT, GIMME THE DAMN PEPPERONI”)
Buddy the beagle took on a coyote recently…and won. My husband took him for a walk, off-leash, in the nature preserve next to our house. Buddy ran off, as he does, because his nose just can’t help itself from sniffing out bunnies. A few minutes later, a coyote loped across the path in front of my husband. In hot pursuit, or as hot as an 8-year old beagle with a gimpy knee can get, was Buddy, baying his head off.
“AWWW-WOOOO!”
Sigh.
I have two of the buggers. The much smaller female is an absolute despot over the big dumb male. She shoulder blocks him from any attention from the humans, weasling her way in between her brother and me during greetings, for example. When we first got them and they were about 12 weeks old, I was stunned and highly amused to see the little one just pick up the (empty) little plastic food bowl and trundle off with it to a corner to guard. She snarled whenever the other one approached.
But when it comes to any external “threat”, both of them are the two biggest chicken shits in the entire universe. If, during a chase, a squirrel turned around and confronted them, they’d turn and run.
My brother and his wife have two dogs: a pure bred beagle and a bulldog-beagle mix. The beagle, though smaller, is by far the dominant dog. Often she starts the “shadowboxing.” She’ll run up to the bullybeagle and start biting her on the leg until the bullybeagle has enough and starts growling at her and wrestling. She also humps the bullybeagle (they’re both female) and she steals treats from the bullybeagle.
She’s a bit of a bitch (well, she is!) but we all still love her to bits and pieces.
Last night there were some activities going on in the back yard. The firsts apparently was a skunk. The younger beagle went out but kept away well enough to escape the squirt.
Later there was something going on in the yard 2 doors down. My dogs went in the yard and barked and confronted. That is what I expect. They are not supposed to kill burglers just take away the ability to sneak in. I do not know if there were any, but if there was ,the puppies did their job.
Beagles is fuzzy? :eek: 
Warm and fuzzy is how they make you feel as they get all snuggly. Mine actually have fur all over their bodies.
My mom has a beagle, and he does the dinner dance too! He only knows 4 tricks: sit, bow, high-five and twirl (spins in a circle), and all 4 get trotted out whenever he even thinks that maybe, just maybe, he’ll get a bite of food.
He also spins in circles when he wants to go outside…once the spinning starts, we have about 3 minutes to open the back door, or else he’ll pee on the floor. Since he was a training dog at a vet school for the first 7 years of his life, he wasn’t quite housebroken when he was adopted, but he seems to have figured it out for the most part. We just had to learn his signal!
He barks and lunges at larger dogs when being walked, but completely ignores my aunt’s golden when she brings her over. He gets nervous around dogs smaller than he is, but seems to ignore cats and other wildlife. He will, however, track things for miles if given the chance, so he’s always on leash when outside (except for the back yard, which is fenced). He gets a little agressive near babies and toddlers, but doesn’t look twice at kids that are about 6 and older. He’s a strange one…7 years in a cage will do that, it seems!
I am distressed by the lack of cites in the thread. Ramush is only part beagle (the evil part) but is clearly the most adorable, loveable dog in the world.
About a week ago, as I was driving home, contemplating my upcoming dogsitting stint with my daughter’s Rottweiler, German Shepherd and crazy pug/schnauzer/whatever the heck that dog is, I decided that if I ever, ever get a dog I think I’d like a beagle. I also watch a Jack Russell, and I think I’d need a dog that’s not quite so high-energy. Beagles seem sleek and cuddly…not as much shedding? But now I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve made the right snap decision!
Hmm…on edit, it sounds like my daughter has one mixed-up dog…she has three.
Mine is only part beagle but he sheds like the bejeezus.
Oh yeah, they shed like crazy, at least mine do. I could make a whole new dog out of what’s drifted against the wall in the downstairs hall.
WRT chutzpah, my small female who thinks she’s in charge of sector 001 occasionally reinforces her “in charge-ness” by humping her much larger brother. The serious, intent look on her face and the benighted expression on the male never fail to crack me up. But then I have to give the command: “Lily, stop f*cking your brother”, and hum a few bars of the Deliverance theme.
This is a recent pic of my 2 5 month old Beagles: http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad332/frazebphotobucket/Octoberweekend2009013.jpg. The boy is completely unlike what you are describing - he listens, he’s very close to being housebroken, and when he does something wrong he seems to genuinely feel sorry and tries to make up for it by being extra nice. The girl, on the other hand, is exactly like what you are describing. I have never seen such a stubborn beast. She has the idea that at her age she has seen enough of the world that she’s fully capable of running the household on her own now. What amazes me about her is how good she is at puzzling through problems. I put up a baby gate to keep them from all of my back bedrooms, but she figured out she could climb the couch and jump over the gate from there. When I foiled those plans she figured out she could avoid the couch and just climb the gate itself. If she’d just put half the effort into housebreaking that she puts into mischief she’d be able to use a toilet by now.
