bassets and beagles..

[dbmtb]

I grew up with a beagle. Very placid but not the cleverest dogs in the world.... But that may be to do with bad training. Also very on its guard about food. And ALWAYS trying to steal food - but that's most dogs isn't it?

 

[Augustus]

Bassets - Great.

Beagles - naughty. Always.

Love them both, always wanted a beagle. Know a few owners including mrs Wu's childhood dog. And they're all the same. They do what they want. Which often includes buggering off for a day or more wandering round the coutryside. They come back, but they can have a tendency to 'roam'.


Don't get me wrong, it annoys me when people bang on about how a dog won't do something it's told etc (blatently not trained it properly) but Beagles are a little bit soloist if you know what I mean.

I recognise it because I am too.

 

[David B]

Bassets - Great.

Beagles - naughty. Always.

Also, beagles aren't as good at making liquorice allsorts.

I'll get me coat.

David

 

[gibbleking]

is there a facepalm gif?

 

[DeletedUser006]

Bassetts are very cool, I am not a doggy person but my brother had a bassett, It would never run out of site, was very playfull and was always hungry

I remember he had quite a time of lifting it in its 1st year as a puppy as they are not to go down steps or jump out of car etc due to short legs and low slung belly he was rather fragrant & did have regular trips to the dog wash / valet truck

 

[cchris2lou]

I have a cross beagle / spaniel , quite a crazy dog and always want to play and steal food .
he can run all day , and all night . he will chase rabbits , cats , birds but comes back to me .

very good with kids . i could not afford a pure breed beagle so went for a cross .

I would happily have another one .

 

[Tad]

is there a facepalm gif?

:facepalm:


: facepalm : just without the space before the f or after the m

 

[renaldo]

My brother and his girlfriend have a beagle. Theirs is great with kids if you have any and very loving and affectionate but does need lots of exercise (i.e. proper off the lead runs not a trip to the shops or round the block). Its not the most obedient of dogs either - I think they have the second best sense of smell after bloodhounds and are renowned for wanting to follow their noses even if it causes them grief. Theirs also does the worst smelling poos I've ever witnessed, but that may not be breed specific!

Like the avatar - is that your own moggy? Reminds me of our own much-missed (a good innings at 17 years though) family cat!

David

Thank you, Boris ('cos hes ginger) also belongs to my brother and girlfriend but I'm very fond of him and he also reminds me of my first cat. Here's Boris with Dennis the beagle lurking in the background. I agree with everything written about beagles in this thread - naughty, not very clever, hard to train, prone to running off / escaping from the garden and do what they want to do a lot of the time but the flipside is that it makes them quite characterful and being a pack animal they are very companionable.

 

[letmetalktomark]

Beagles, being hounds, have a tendency not to come back when called.

Being a tiny hound(s) owner this can be truly frustrating!

 

[Rich Aitch]

Everything people have said about the Beagles is spot on.
We had one when I was very little, so he was a companion for me instead of having brothers or sisters. He put up with loads of torment from me, tail pulling- literally- and me folding his ear flaps open and opening his eyelids to have a look inside when he was asleep but despite all that provocation he never went for me.
Definately disobediant and accident prone. He jumped over the fence into next doors garden when I was two and had a fight with next doors dog and got his eye gouged out and had to have his eyelids sown up, so I was raised with a Pirate-Beagle! When I used to see other peoples dogs I used to think- how weird it's got both it's eyes...

Oh he never really got housetrained and one day when we were trying to nudge him into the back garden so he could make a deposit there he got his tail trapped in the kitchen door and didn't realise so that when he was dithering and wagging his tail he didn't realise that he was splattering blood all over the walls!

But we adored him.