The American Beagler Forum

I did a search on Packing and got some very good info. I realize I should have done that first. You guys must get really tired of answering the same questions over and over. Sorry

This is a great site. Thanks for all the info.

Larry

I have two young dogs (1 year olds) that have been hunted about 25 times. They are starting to run some, but neither will honor my old dog. When the old dog jumps, they look her way, but keep on searching for their own rabbit. I call them and run to the old dog to get them in on the race. They will ...

I've never seen a dog get shocked because another dog barked and I use them on several dogs in the same pen. What will happen though is one dog will chew on the colllar of another dog and sometimes causes a shock. I've had collars with the snap fasteners come off because another dog chewed in just t...

Are we talking about genetics here? I've always heard that the sire and dam each contributed 50% to the make up of the offspring.

LC, Years ago I had Beagles that would run and tree coon. They didn't tree as good as most coon hounds, but did stay treed long enough for me to get to them. We trained them to tree by putting live trapped coon and wild house cats up small trees where the dogs could see them. We then encouraged the ...

DRamey, I assume rabbits going to ground so quickly isn't normal for you. Was there a significant change in the weather or a storm moving in? Dave Fisher believes weather is the main reason for rabbits going to ground. Do you usually run your fast hound with the others? It just seems to me that if a...

It seems logical that a fast hound would put a rabbit to hole quicker than a medium hound, but will a fast hound CONSISTENTLY put a rabbit to hole quickly? I just don't think my dogs are fast. Medium or maybe medium fast. I don't have anyting to compare to so I don't know for sure. I read Dave Fishe...

Predators sure might be the problem. We have a lot of coyotes and fox here. Now that we have snow, I see fresh coyote tracks going through my running ground every time out.

I seldom shoot the rabbit, so almost every race ends at a hole. Some days the rabbits circle several times and stay up 45 min. or so and other days they go to ground in 5 to 10 min. Lately I'm lucky to get a 20 min. race. It seems that 4 to 6 inches of fresh snow causes them to go down quicker. Mayb...

Will a fast hound cause cottontails to go to ground faster than a medium speed hound