The American Beagler Forum

Ok, so the other day I was talking to my girlfriend about getting one more beagle. She told me if I got one then we are over.... so i'm still looking for a dog and now a new girlfriend, send pic of the dog.... HAHA!!
I was just wondering how your better half deals with your passion? I was stationed in Hawaii for three years, when i was there they one place i could go to get away from everything was the beach. I was there 3-5 times a weeks. Once i moved back here to the mainland I was searching for that freedom again. Thats when i got myself a beagle and started running him. I feel at peace out there. I can clear my head. I can just sit back and watch my dog run. I can just see how happy he is when he is running, which in turn puts a smile on my face. Sometimes when i think about it i wounder why I do it. I mean I dont like spend the money on gas, cause the money is not always there, or driving over an hour to any of my hunting grounds yet i do it every week. I guess everyone has that one passion in there life that one thing that makes them happy when nothing else will. You cant always explain why you do what you do. Its just in you.

I just hope to fine someone that either takes me for who I am and likes my beagles, or someone that will run her beagle along side of mine.

PS 8 days till the season opens here in Maryland. If anyone wants to do some running Ill be taking leave so I can run all week. Just let me know.

This actually swamp boy's wife. I can understand where she was coming from. For the first 5 years we was married he ran dogs I didn't. And it caused a wedge. Then I started going to field trials with him, and handling a dog.That started the bug. Then I bought my own puppy and helped to train her. She championed out on the bench before she was a year old. Now she runs in the field and took 2cd a couple of weeks ago,now I'm hooked. I love the dog's just as much as he does and love to run them, every chance we get. With your next woman get her a dog. Try to get her involved. Make it something you both love to do. Best of luck.

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Run them rabbits till they lock up!

I tried and tried to get her to come out. I even almost drove like 12 hrs to get a grade pup that she wanted. (boy am i glad i didnt). Guess it was just not meant to be. HAHA!!! Now i have even more time to get my pup up to speed. Im want that FC in front of his name.

Well you tried. Time to find a new one! Good luck with your dog.

Next time try a Missouri gal!
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Run them rabbits till they lock up!

There's an old saying, " It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission." I was in the Army eight years and spent the first three of those years in Hawaii also. Schofield Barracks. Life is short, so you have to do what you like doing. If she really loves you, she will let you do what brings you joy.

I am very active, and unhappy if I do not have a fair amount of physcial activity.

My wife and I have been together since 90, married since 95.
She has been with me through lots of hobbies.
When I do something, fortunately/unfortunately I go in all the way.

My passion that I always come back to is hunting (all types).
I've been into fast cars, long rang rifle shooting, skeet/clays, cowboy action shooting, building off road rigs, jiu-jitsu, and others.

Beagling is the only hobby that my wife and I enjoy together.
She has her favorite dog and she enjoys running them.
On her days off, I usually come home to an empty kennel with the dogs running down behind the house. She keeps tabs on them and brings them in when they head up toward the road. She doesn't hunt, but goes rabbit hunting with a few times a year to watch the dogs work. She does like trials because you only hunt 1 hour at a time (not like my all day adventures).

I told my wife when we first started dating, "Honey I will never let my friends and hobbies come between us, BUT I will never let you come in between me and my friends and hobbies".

Fortunately she knows that I have to stay active and lets me.
I am like my dogs - I go out run work/play hard all day, come in tired wanting my belly full and to get my head scratched. She has to like beagles because I'm just like them.

well after a few year's of fussin think the wife has finally gave up....had a couple of litter's of pup's awhile back an she wanted one so i said if you keep one than it has got to learn to handle an hunt an that is your job i will help so far so good.. don't get the what the ----- look when i talk about another dog anymore... so it just takes time ... but i must add i don't say a word about them cat's anymore ,, not even when i'm asleep an it jump's in the bed an run them claw's into my toes.. i really love my dog's

In my marriage I am the one always begging for dogs, and my husband is saying NO! I tell him it's his fault, he got me into the sport now he has to deal with me! I will say that he sure appreciates all the running I do with the dogs year round when hunting season comes in!!
-Stacy

I don't think I could have it any better. I have 6 beagles. There are times when I get home that the wife is sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor with all 6 jumping around waiting for their cookie. How many women do you know who have 6 dogs in their kitchen at the same time? She goes with me every Sat and Sun morning. What a girl!!

Spado,
25th Inf Division, Lighting Strikes. Never got there but spent a tour in the Nam, C Troop 3/4 Cav. My wife of 40 yrs. come Feburary has supported me in my hunting from hounds to beagles. She goes shopping and I go hunting. Both of my children started coon hunting with me and now I'm beagle hunting with them. My wife decided she wanted a beagle of her own for a house dog. So she picked one from my son's female but it didn't make the house dog transition. I'm hunting her right now and my wife went with me the other night for the first time, to see her female run. She was impressed with her progress for age and size. I don't know if I'll ever get her to hunt in any hunts, my wife that is, but I wouldn't trade her for nothing.

Oh yeah baby,

A real kick butt unit!! Went through KOLEI KOLEI (SP) pass more than one time with a ruck that must have weighed a thousand pounds!

Well this is the way our life is here. I have more dogs than my husband. The only problem we have is he likes his blood line and I like mine. We got married with the beagles as our best man and maid of honor. I love to go hunting other things too deer and squirrel hunting but he dont. Oh well.

Dale I left Schofield about a year ago and I can assure you the road leading up to that pass is just as steep as you remember. Hawaii was the place that made my wife realize just how much I love my hounds. She just can't understand how someone can be happier in a briar thicket than on a sunny beach.