The American Beagler Forum

John Way wrote, Norwester especially , It seems you run on snow often, or any of you other guys who run the large packs , would love to see some video of your hounds doing their stuff in some tough conditions. Not 6 inches of fresh powder , but cold , ice, deep powder. Some driving ,steady chases. I...

The only thing I would ask is, how long have you been involved with these hounds? Still haven't got what you're after yet? Maybe that right there should be some pause for thought eh? My female will be 2 in June. I have a pup I'm starting. I suffered a devastating blow by losing my best dog running ...

Mybeagles wrote, Not so much cracking under pressure as loosing faith in foolishness or pack mates Loosing faith?? Dogs don't have religion :roll: The dog is cracking under pressure but you can call it whatever you like I guess... Virtually every argument you present proves my point or has no releva...

Mybeagles wrote, It's not that you can't see anything in a pack, it's more about the fact you see everything when solo. But here's the problem.....what you see solo is NOT representative of how the dog will run in a pack! Once again, I don't trial, however seeing as how all trials are judged in a pa...

Deerhost, what can I say....you like soloing....all the power to you. Knock yourself out. I couldn't care less what you do, that's your business and if thats the way you like it, good for you. As for what you believe, i don't know what to say to that....if you cant have any more than one dog in ther...

JJWI wrote, I never understood how you could fully see what a dog is doing, or needs work on without making them run on their own. I have seen too many times guys would have a dog that looked like a million bucks in a pack or with another dog. But you take that dog out on its own and it just stood b...

So your argument is that soloing is a moral issue ?

Dave, c'mon man.....you just gave a perfect example of how a pack setting exposes a fault. Appearing to contribute and actually contributing are two different things....it's up to us to be able to recognize the difference right? Run the same pack all the time....it won't take long to figure out who ...

Mybeagles wrote, For those that refuse to solo for whatever reason, what happens to the hounds that don't excel as a young hound with constant pack pressure? The Dogs For Sale board is FULL of dogs that "go with older dogs but need solo time to finish". In my experience most of these hounds have mis...

The snow giveth and the snow taketh away Very common to see what you experienced especially in the spring around here with dogs that have above average nose power.

keith, great post kinda on the same topic "brood bitches" ,not going to take this into any line of dogs just in general . is it exceptable to brood an below average female from an proved litter and with 3-4 generations of proof as well. especially if you line breed back into it . you should end up ...

Filial degeneration - the tendency of an individual descendant of a bloodline to revert back to the average of that bloodline. In other words if you breed two slower dogs that are both descended from fast dogs the resulting offspring are likely to turn out to be the average of the bloodline which wo...

MOUNTAIN HARE!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=444Py8qKkEY

Budd wrote:

RYAN KEMP wrote:looks like a little under medium speed to me. great video and nice dogs.

I've seen some of Jims dog's go and if they are under medium speed mine are traditional brace...LOL
Great clip my friend.

About the only critique I can come up with on your videos is that I wish you could get more footage of the rabbit followed by the dogs on the line....

....oh, and come up with some snowshoe hare footage with your pack on snow!