Hounds and Beagles. Pictures.

[Rooster1981]

Here are a few random pics from over the years.

[Machias]

Very cool photos....I HATE tree climbers   Last photo is awesome.

[Special T]

I've always run mine with bells on for years.

I know Hikers bells seem to attract Griz in Teition and Yellowstone NP... Do the bells really help keep wolves away? or do they not have enough experience with bells so they are more hesitant to come close to them?

[Pinfold]

My Beagles, Betsy and Buddy.

[hunter93]

my dogs all have telemtry and gps colars and there regualr collar. i only hunt one yound dog at a time and he gets the shock collar. but usually for me and my group the young dogs kinda got to earn the gps collar. cuz there more exspensive. also where is everyone getting good hunting stock for beagles out of i kind want to get a beagle too run during the day. anybody willing to let me tag aloing on a rabbit hunt i would really appreciate it.

[plottwalker]

not many beagle guys around, even harder to find hunting stock, i have  been hunting a few beagles with the hounds, coon hunt the hounds at night, and rabbit hunt the beagles in the morning, has been working for me.

[Houndhunter]

Got 11 pups, 5 weeks old now

[bearpaw]

I've always run mine with bells on for years.

I know Hikers bells seem to attract Griz in Teition and Yellowstone NP... Do the bells really help keep wolves away? or do they not have enough experience with bells so they are more hesitant to come close to them?

Are you sure bells attract bear, or is that just a good joke everyone likes to laugh about? 

A large number of hounders run bells in Idaho and Montana and that has seemed to work well at deterring wolves, however there is a couple packs in the Grangeville/Orofino area that attack dogs even with bells. They have learned the bells are not harmful. I think most anywhere else the wolves have not learned about bells so bells still help deter wolves due to the unnatural sound they make.

We do not run any dog without a bell, we put bells on the dogs at a few months old and they live their wholelife with a bell. My son has hunted about every part of Idaho, so far no dogs attacked, although the wolves have flanked him and the dogs coming out of the woods after dark several times. Scared the dickens out of him and the dogs. Problem with wolves, they study new prey until they feel safe to attack, so eventually the bells may not deter an attack.

I have even considered putting bird dog beepers on my hounds if the bells quit keeping the wolves away.

[Special T]

I took a group of Boy scouts to YNP and the Teitons. When we were there i had a good conversation with the first Ranger to use bear pepper spray.  I was told that there had been several cases where "bear bells"  that were suposed to keep Griz from becoming startled had become conditiond to getting food from people dropping thier packs when the bears showed up. My comment is not a joke. If the bells keep the wolves away then that is good. If however they are conditioned to know that the bells are on dogs it could turn out just like bears. I would imagine as soon as a packe figures out they are just dogs then that pack will not be afraid of them... Since Hounds bay and bark while trailing it may not have the same effect, but i thought i would share my experience.