My Bayliss is so good. We don’t leash walk. Far far out in the country. No neighbors. So he walks with me a few feet ahead or behind. Never bounding off into the woods like my Beagle did.
To the vet or anywhere else, we leash. The leash is his enemy. I didn’t have him as a pup so I missed the leash training period.
When I get it out he knows “oh, yay, car ride” then I put it on and he pouts til the car is moving. He’s happy on the ride. He loves to ride.
When we get to the destination he loses his cool. I have to be really firm. That concerns him more.
Caesar Milan says they feel your nervousness and foreboding or whatever thru the leash. I try to be calm. Not always successful at it.
In, say the vets waiting room he’s nervous as a cat. Any other animal interests him. He would like to freely run around and visit. Of course that’s not cool and probably against rules.
When strange people get too close he really doesn’t like it. Somehow he controls himself. He did pee on the floor one time when this huge man with a very small yapping fuzzy dog came in. I’m not sure what bothered him the size of the man or the yappy pup.
When his toe was hurting and he went for surgery they took him back by their own loop around the neck leash. He went totally nuts. He struggled and pulled and barked his head off. The loop tightened and he was shaking his head trying to get out of it. They had to pick him up and carry him back. The whole waiting room went bananas. All the dogs were barking. So embarrassing.
When we picked him up after surgery the vet said they had to immediately sedate him, he was so distressed.
This seems to have nothing to to do with the OP. But I wanted to point out even the best dogs can lose their shit in unfamiliar situations. I believe the OP can sensitize their dog to this other dogs barking. With the treat training or a favorite toy and game at close range, maybe tug. Just let the other dog bark and keep your dog focused on you til he’s used to it.
Maybe discuss with the neighbors about getting the dogs used to each other in some safe way.
Good luck.
I finally learned that this is what a Beagle is supposed to do. It’s in their nature. Hard to break.
Betsy the obese beagle would get to a certain point on our walks and she was gone, nose to the ground. Fat tail, straight up and waving in a, only way to describe it, “windshield wiper” motion.
If you’d listen her barks and beagle bugle sound it was distinctive. If she was silent, she smelled something close. The aroma froze her. As soon as the rabbit moved the chase was on. And the song played on. It was beautiful, clear and high pitched.
She had a great voice. Expert Beagle men said so.
It seemed mournful to me somehow. Betsy was never gonna catch the rabbit. Her job was fruitless really.
She had been culled from the pack. Her mother had rejected her. I bottle fed her and saved her.
She had no pack, but me.
I told her all the time her song was appreciated and she was a good beagle girl.
I think she understood.
Sadly, her gluttonous appetite got her in the end.
I miss her songs everyday when I walk.
I don’t know, but I always assumed that a Beagle’s job was not necessarily to catch the rabbit. It’s to alert the rest of the pack (ie you) that she’s cornered the rabbit.
Our girl was a mix of Beagle and Huskey. A Busky. A perfect dog if you wanted one to get on a scent and then pull you down the street with all her strength.
She would come when called 9/10 times. The 10th time she would just look at you with a Husky face and go “ummmmm. No. I choose to run this way.” And off she’d go for a while.
Yes, I was the pack.
But the hunter was not there to bag the rabbit. I don’t think she ever got near enough to even see a rabbit. Her nose was on the ground. Who knows? The rabbit may have passed that way yesterday.
Once she barked half a day at a dead squirrel in the yard. We decided she was confused why it wasn’t moving. Funny she never looked up at trees to see them doing squirrely gymnastics.
Beagles can be taught to tree squirrels but it’s not easy.
MrWrekkers beagle pack are taught to run deer.
It takes them a long time to learn to lift their heads and ignore ground scent.
I’m not gonna say what they do to Beagles who don’t get the rules reliably. Not MrWrekker. I’d do something similar to him if he did.
He brings them to me. They are hard to rehab to pets if they’ve been in a pack. I’ve successfully done it a few times.