The American Beagler Forum

Can someone help me. I have a thirteen month old male that I like alot. My problem is he to fast. He can circle his own rabbit, handles well, but I have been noticeing that when he is up and running hard (exspecialy on the snow) he will sometime over run the track by twenty feet. 80% of the time he will come back and pick the track back up, but it will take a minute or two. Already this season, if he gets a fast break in the open he some times catches them (he has caught three this year so far). My question is, how can I slow him down ? Someone please help.

Frustrated.

You can speed them up but you can't slow them down-best thing if you want a slower hound is to buy an adult you watch run or get a pup from a slower bloodline and hope it runs your style,chances are your present hound will get faster with experience and run that way all its life.No problem running down snow shoe hare,a lot of medium speed hounds do that every day-so that is not a good judge of a hounds speed.Hope this helps.