roaming beagles?

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roaming beagles?

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 7/14/2006 9:33:11 PM

tonight my wife and i saw two beagles walking by the side of the road that leads to our subdivision. one of them was limping. we went after them. they were both wearing collars but no tags. they were soaking wet as it had just finished raining. and appeared to have a pretty bad case of fleas. luckily the one that was limping just had his front paw caught in his collar. i got him to come to me and i got his paw out, but as soon as i did they both took off running. we drove through the neighborhood they appeared to be running towards, but didnt see them again.

is there anything more i could have done? or is there anything i could do now? i feel sorry for these dogs. the female dog was pretty old as she had grey around her face and nose. plus her teats were hanging low. i am not sure if she had just had puppies or if she was pregnant or what. the other dog (i think it was a male) didnt appear to be as old. he actually appeared to be pretty young, not a puppy but young nonetheless.

Christi

Posted : 7/14/2006 11:54:42 PM

Beagles are amazing dogs. They can seem to find their way back from anywhere. Hopefully these two found their way back home. Hopefully home will take better care of them. A friend who is a farmer had two beagles, male and female, wander on to her property. She called HS to see if they were being looked for, they were not. She fed the dogs and put up signs around her town but no one responded. That was about two years ago. She's not really a dog person and didn't get too attached but provided food, shelter, and vet care for them (had them fixed after no one claimed them). In her farm work, she deals with Amish quite a bit. Amish guy is at her house and falls for the two, their soooo cute. Says his wife wants one, but not two. Friend knows this guy, knows he's not a puppy mill-er (they're fixed anyway) but says no, he has to take them both if he's going to take one. So Amish guy calls his wife on his cell phone and she says okay, bring them both home. He loads them up on his buggy and off they go to his farm which is a good 20 miles away and I'm assuming would take forever in a buggy. Anyway, couple weeks later my friend was out doing some kind of farm thing and she hears barking and sure enough, one of the beagles came back, all the way from the Amish farm 20 miles away. She figures he really wants to be with her so she lets him stay and calls the Amish guy on his cell phone and he says that's fine, even though his wife had fallen for both dogs, too. He agreed that the dog must've really liked her. Goofy dog.

Jenny Anon

Posted : 7/20/2006 2:00:40 PM

My saddest dog encounter was with running beagles. Two had been running thru the property for weeks chasing deer. They never seemed to stop, finally when they were so tired they got caught on a wire fence I was able to get them.
Dehydrated and horribly torn lil paws, I carried them home n called Animal Control. The next day when they arrived one man said that it was far from the first time this had happened with beagles out here.
I don't know enough of the breed to say anything on that, I would really be interested if that is a part of that breed. Was it pure instinct that kept them chasing deer in the same pattern for weeks?
We as humans seem to so often forget about instinct and the important role it plays in not just animals, but ourselves too.

btw, they didn't have collars nor tags on [:@]