Rabbit Hunting w/Beagles?

[PistolCity]

Hey Im a newbie and was wondering how many of you enjoy hunting rabbits with beagles? Currently I just own 2 beagles. This season derby's, which in case you dont field trial. Means they are rookies less than 2 years of age. Stubby is my old dog and he is just 18 months old and Billy is only 8 months. But they both hunt hard even if they are a little slow. Ive not got to do alot of rabbit hunting this season and its almost out. But I dont think it matters I cant hit the broad side of a barn any more. Ive killed 1 rabbit out of 8 Ive seen. Horrible!

[neophyte]

PistolCity: a pack of yappin Beagles running a rabbit in-a circle. Yahoo. Aint nothing like it.
You got some puppies going keep me informed.
I do enjoy the race.

[jerry]

My buddy and I hunt over his beagle coon hound mix. A lot of fun.

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...huntDec074.jpg

[two-70]

welcome to the site have fun

[KP90DC]

Hunt 2 Beagles. A year ago had one stole out of my yard. City dog catcher was steeling what people wanted and selling them. Got caught and Fired, but I never did find my Beagle.

[DWARREN123]

Don't even need a gun to have fun!

[webs]

Welcome to the site.Sounds like your shooting is about as good as mine at times.Doesn't matter though,being with those Beagles is really what it is all about anyway.

[SwedeSteve]

Welcome to G&G!!! Being out in the woods with your pups is great Enjoy it.

[9mmfan]

I love hunting rabbits with my Beagles! And they make great pets ! A 15-inch beagle, just won Best in Show at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show for the first time ever at Madison Square Garden in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008.

Hail, Snoopy! Beagle wins Westminster - Yahoo! News

[DANA]

There is no music better than the than the sound of running beagles

DANA

[troy2000]

I have two beagles a couple of years old. Had to train them from scratch, with no other beagles around to learn from. They were just getting the idea good, and getting to be some use, when one of them lost a leg a few weeks ago. They got out of the fenced acreage where I work when some workers didn't put temporary fences back right, and the boy came back with the bone in his upper right leg smashed to splinters. Not a mark on him otherwise, so I think one of the sheep herders across the road got him with a pipe or heavy stick, trying to break his little head.

I took him to my vet, and she worked for three hours trying to put the leg back together. Finally she called me on the verge of tears, and said there just wasn't anything left solid enough to even anchor a rod to, and she had discovered the main nerve was also severed. So the leg came completely off, flush to his shoulder.

I think I probably had the only rabbit dogs in the county as it was, and I'll guarantee I'm going to have the only three-legged one; I won't have the heart to keep him from trying to follow rabbits.

[samuel]

Troy2000:That is a sad story.Breaks me up.Hope the dog heals ok.Sorry to hear about it. sam.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by samuel

Troy2000:That is a sad story.Breaks me up.Hope the dog heals ok.Sorry to hear about it. sam.

He'll be okay, Sam. I was worried about him for a while, because he seemed to have no spirit left in him at all. His tail dragged the floor when he was trying to get around; he just looked at me when I talked to him or petted him; and I was afraid he was going to roll over and quit trying to live.

But ten days after it happened, he looked around when I let him into the yard for a potty break, and his tail slowly came up to half mast. He sniffed noses with his little partner, checked out a cat, rummaged around in the grass sniffing out a gopher hole, and after about ten minutes the tail was right back up where a beagle tail belongs.

The tail's been up ever since, and he's doing better all the time.

[Lng Rng]

I have only had the pleasure to hunt rabbits behind a beagle once, and it was awesome. Those little guys run as hard as they can, for as long as they can. Few dogs try to please their owners like those beagles did.

Troy, im sure your beagle will be fine. It's a wonder how they can fit a heart that big into a dog that small.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by Lng Rng

I have only had the pleasure to hunt rabbits behind a beagle once, and it was awesome. Those little guys run as hard as they can, for as long as they can. Few dogs try to please their owners like those beagles did.
Troy, im sure your beagle will be fine. It's a wonder how they can fit a heart that big into a dog that small.

Beagles are wonderful dogs: good-natured, non-aggressive, just sweet all round. Hard-headed, though.

Hunting's bred into them so deep it's a shame that many wind up just being couch or yard dogs, LR. My two beagles usually have only two modes: asleep, or nose to the ground looking for something to track. If they can't find a rabbit they'll settle for flushing out a cat or a ground squirrel, but they'd really rather be after the rabbits; if they can find one everything else gets totally ignored.

My wife was sulking at her mother's for a few months when I got them, and when I mentioned them on the phone she snapped, "I told you I didn't want any beagles!" And I told her, "well, you didn't get any. I did." She came home determined to hate them, but she never stood a chance. Beagles invented puppy eyes, and when the two ganged up on her she was sweet-talking them and sneaking them snacks in no time flat.

And isn't it amazing that something so short-legged can run like they do for hours on end?

[Lng Rng]

Yeah, they are really a breed apart. I have a female lab thats 3 years old, and weighs about 70 lbs. She isn't heavy either, she is just big for a female, and has long legs, so she can carry herself well. Her blood lines have tournamet dog's in them, so running/stamina has been a strong point for her. The beagels were always slower than here, but they were always on her heels, and they never gave up.

Anyways, after a pheasant hunt, a freind of mine who is a year ahead of me in college (junior) unleashed his beagles to bust some brush piles. We went for a a couple miles, through snow, and those short little buggers kept up. They earned everybody's respect.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by Lng Rng

Yeah, they are really a breed apart. I have a female lab thats 3 years old, and weighs about 70 lbs. She isn't heavy either, she is just big for a female, and has long legs, so she can carry herself well. Her blood lines have tournamet dog's in them, so running/stamina has been a strong point for her. The beagels were always slower than here, but they were always on her heels, and they never gave up.
Anyways, after a pheasant hunt, a freind of mine who is a year ahead of me in college (junior) unleashed his beagles to bust some brush piles. We went for a a couple miles, through snow, and those short little buggers kept up. They earned everybody's respect.

One of my books mentions a snow hare hunt the author went on in upstate New York. There was snow all over the ground, the wind was blowing, and his hunting partner's beagles were following the scent trails eight or ten feet downwind of the tracks in the snow, and doing it at a dead run! I'm not sure anything but a bloodhound can beat them for a nose.

[rondog]

I love my Beagles to death! I wish I knew of a place where I could let 'em run and chase rabbits. We live next to a large greenbelt full of rabbits, but I'm afraid I'd never see my girls again. They're just our housedoggies. I need some new photos, Coco the pup is 6 mos. old now.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...e/DSCN0935.jpg

[troy2000]

Here are a couple of pics of mine when they were less than a year old, figuring out how to handle a check (losing the trail):
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...r/HPIM0084.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...r/HPIM0085.jpg

And one of Baby (the girl) practicing her puppy eyes at about the same age; almost all the black on top of her little noggin has since turned to tan:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...r/HPIM0008.jpg

[neophyte]

Troy2000: Sir; them Beagle hounds will sure spoil you. They aint right; as soon as they goof; look at you with them puppy dawg eyes: you lost

We had some Running Walkers [for fox] and one night a train got on a couple, one dead one smashed up a little, and one got his leg cut off.

I snatch the two up called the 'vet' 2:30am yelling meet me. He did; took one look at banged up one, grabbed up 3 leg and yelled lets go.

He yelled at me about that dang railroad for a couple of hrs. while saving my dog. He mopped, I sponged, he sewed, I sponged, he catheterized, I sponged, and him a yelling at me.

Dog end up with three legs; it was tough to go when he couldn't, so I made him a promise. We would chase coon. Was a ?fair? cooner, but you get him crossing a fox; lordy lordy.

Me and that dog spent many a night trying to figure out; what are we going to do. Lived to a ripe old age, he now resides with his buddies in the sky.