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Posted on 4/9/19 at 7:58 am to deeprig9
thats not lucky at all 
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:14 am to Cajunate
Catching a squirrel is tough for a fast dog. For a beagle it's damn-near impossible unless they are really tame squirrels. Not saying your dog isn't the most athletic beagle around, but the squirrels could have potentially been poisoned by someone trying to kill rats/mice.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:42 am to Cajunate
Good dog Elle, good dog...
Every day the weather is good, my wife and I walk our boykin up to our Boy's school to pick him up and walk him home.
Yesterday, the dog stuck his nose in the bushes/hedge of the house at the end of the street. When I say he stuck his nose in, he dove in head first. When he did, up jumped two California quail. Had I been younger and faster, I could have reached out and grabbed one of them with my hand (they were that close). Alas, I don't have ninja skills like this guy...
Good dog Wrigley, good dog...
Every day the weather is good, my wife and I walk our boykin up to our Boy's school to pick him up and walk him home.
Yesterday, the dog stuck his nose in the bushes/hedge of the house at the end of the street. When I say he stuck his nose in, he dove in head first. When he did, up jumped two California quail. Had I been younger and faster, I could have reached out and grabbed one of them with my hand (they were that close). Alas, I don't have ninja skills like this guy...
Good dog Wrigley, good dog...
This post was edited on 4/9/19 at 8:48 am
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:51 am to tenfoe
I have a heeler that loves chasing squirrels. She got smart to them. I'll let her out the door, she'll wait in stealth mode until the squirrel gets halfway between the fence and the tree. Then she breaks and races to whichever it chose, tree or fence, she wont go straight to the squirrel.
She will never kill them though, she always brings me a live squirrel, shaken to damn near unconsciousness.
She will never kill them though, she always brings me a live squirrel, shaken to damn near unconsciousness.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 9:17 am to Sus-Scrofa
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heeler
I have one too. Heeler=/=beagle.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 10:38 am to LSUlefty
quote:We have 3 and this has never been a problem for us. They will bark from time to time when they see a cat or an unfamiliar dog in the neighborhood but that's about it.
Always wanted a beagle, but wife says they howl too much.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 12:50 pm to Sus-Scrofa
My beagle-terrier LOVES to chase squirrels in our park, but in ten years he has never actually caught one and he's damn fast. The closest he got was once he guessed right and blocked a squirrel from the nearest tree. The squirrel gave him a Walter Paytonesque hip fake, the dog went sprawling end over end, and the squirrel calmly jogged to the tree. It was downright embarrassing.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 1:53 pm to tenfoe
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Catching a squirrel is tough for a fast dog. For a beagle it's damn-near impossible unless they are really tame squirrels. Not saying your dog isn't the most athletic beagle around, but the squirrels could have potentially been poisoned by someone trying to kill rats/mice.
I used to watch mine stalk them like a cat, it was amazing. She looked just like a cheetah with lowered head, slow stalking, getting closer and closer, and when the squirrel got distracted, she would make a break for it. Personally, I never saw her get one, but many times got very very close, and she even climbed a tree after one. As close as i've seen her get, there's no question in my mind she got the one that was puked up into my car.
My beagle's typical behavior when finding a dead animal is to hide it, and guard it. The fact she ate this one whole tells me it was a kill, not a find.
Posted on 4/9/19 at 8:16 pm to Sus-Scrofa
My Heeler taught the Lab to climb the fences to the Rottweiler bitch he'd been breeding with, & shared.
This post was edited on 4/9/19 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:38 am to deeprig9
I had a pair of Rhodesian Ridgeback littermates that had the most fascinating cooperative squirrel hunting technique. Bantu (the dog) would catch a squirrels attention and Nandi (the bitch) would circle around behind the squirrel and aim herself between the squirrel and the closest tree. Then Bantu would start to slowly approach the squirrel and as soon as the squirrel twitched Nandi would explode and try to get it just at the base of the tree. They continued this until the remaining squirrels only went to ground outside the fence.
I assumed the circling came from the instant to surround and bay. I could watch them all day.
I assumed the circling came from the instant to surround and bay. I could watch them all day.
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