Hunting with a Beagle

[chrisb]

My wife wants a beagle to fill the empty spot in her soul that was left when hers died last year at 13 years old. That was a couch beagle and I'm thinking since we are getting a hound I may want to have a hunting beagle. What can i hunt in WA with a beagle? What level of training is required? do trained hunting dogs make good family dogs around little ones?

Any help or insight from those who have or had beagles as hunting dogs is appreciated.

[nwhoundhunter]

Sent you a PM on this one.  Lots of good luck with them here.  I have 2 kids 1 yr old and 6 yrs old and I don't have a beagle one that don't get along with them.  Training, all I have to say is EASY.  Just turn em loose.

[h2ofowlr]

I had a beagle and had to give it to a 4-H kid.  It was to much for me to handle, damn thing barked all the time and if you left it alone it would howl and tear the house apart.  Never again.

[merlo105]

Beagles are great you can hunt coons and hares with them here in WA. Run them on Bob kittys. They make great pets, training fairly easy they just need times in the woods chasing and what not.

[Machias]

Run them on Bob kittys.

That would be illegal in this state.