Ardent
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I should add, the first rabbit our beagle got and her only real training was while my wife was walking her on our acreage.
I heard my wife shout in alarm, looked out and saw the beagle’s butt sticking out of an unlit burn pile, and the baby crying wail of a wounded rabbit. She laid the rabbit at my feet licking and sniffing it, shaking with excitement and not certain what to do with it.
I braised it, and fried the heart / lungs / liver and gave her those. She sat by the stove rigid at attention watching the proceedings, and ever since she knew if she brought it to me and didn’t destroy it good things happened. She’d flush birds, then retrieve them when shot. Admittedly she was a bit rough on the birds early on, but she learned to retrieve them gently.
Being a beagle, she still follows her nose, but knows the cutoff and when she’s off line. She’ll push it a little bit, but always comes in, except once when she didn’t find me til dusk. She jumped into my truck at a flat out run when I opened the door and was shaking and panting hard, so I suspect she met something that didn’t play nice and ran for it. Ever since that, the second training episode, she was good and stayed close.
Guess we got lucky with happenstance free training episodes. But I really believe a good beagle has it genetically programmed.
I heard my wife shout in alarm, looked out and saw the beagle’s butt sticking out of an unlit burn pile, and the baby crying wail of a wounded rabbit. She laid the rabbit at my feet licking and sniffing it, shaking with excitement and not certain what to do with it.
I braised it, and fried the heart / lungs / liver and gave her those. She sat by the stove rigid at attention watching the proceedings, and ever since she knew if she brought it to me and didn’t destroy it good things happened. She’d flush birds, then retrieve them when shot. Admittedly she was a bit rough on the birds early on, but she learned to retrieve them gently.
Being a beagle, she still follows her nose, but knows the cutoff and when she’s off line. She’ll push it a little bit, but always comes in, except once when she didn’t find me til dusk. She jumped into my truck at a flat out run when I opened the door and was shaking and panting hard, so I suspect she met something that didn’t play nice and ran for it. Ever since that, the second training episode, she was good and stayed close.
Guess we got lucky with happenstance free training episodes. But I really believe a good beagle has it genetically programmed.
