so below are some pictures i have put up of my Beagle... yes i know he looks like i beagle but there is something nagging away at me saying but there is something else mixed with him comments in the past like his paws as a puppy were massive... that he has the looks of a labrador so i need some other "outside" opinions... what do you think??? Sorry for the poor quality but try and keep and 10 month old pup to sit still long enough to get a decent pic!!!
Looks like a lovely Beagle to me I guess there could be something a bit bigger, like a Harrier, mixed in possibly...?
Dont get me wrong i stil do love my pup as much now as i did when he first came home... was just curious...
He doesn't look like a 'show type' beagle to me although the pics aren't too good Many breeds have a working type as well as a show type, so yours could be a Harrier which is the working type of Beagle - once used to hunt hares in packs but now (if any packs exist) solely used for rabbits. Harriers are taller and a little longer than beagles... One "Beagle" I knew which was certainly a mis-sold Harrier, was very tall and rangy (as well as having a very high prey drive, zero recall and never stopped barking!). Many years ago when I was a kid my family were invited out beagling with a local pack - it involved a many-mile walk through mud, water, ditches, over barbed wire, gates, through more mud, stumbling over ploughed fields, more hedges, brambles, scratches and we only caught up with the pack about twice! The pack was novice so nothing was caught or even chased, and while they were supposed to go after hare, they were far more interested in stuffing their noses down rabbit holes and telling each other how nice it smelled.
kind of sounds simular to my "beagle" Can NOT get his attention most of the time, doing traning is not easy as i feel it has to be on his terms... if i try and stop him doing whatever he is doing to try and train then i got no chance... recall well only when he is on the lead we have had a couple of incidents when his lead has "pinged" and he has quite litterally Bolted nothing i could do to get him back but luckly we got him back... and as for the barking he wont stop but when he is outside we managed to do it where he does stop or he dont come in... felt sorry for the neighbours for a week but what else could we do...??? like i said i love him to bit and i am trying SO HARD to give him the mental stimulation he needs but sometimes it fels so hard hes a stubborn dog like toilet traning him during the summer hell go outside but winter if he goes outside (or so we think) well go into the living room and hell stay in the kitchen when we go in the kitchen halfn hour later hes toileted in the kitchen i dunno
From what I have read about hounds of this type, that's about normal Obviously if he has come from a working strain then he may be even more full-on in these areas. I've just checked and, as I thought, there is a working strain of pack Beagle, which is also separate from the Harrier.
I'm trying to judge his height from the seat height of the chair, and am estimating him to be 15 1/2 - 16 inches at the shoulder. If so, this is a perfectly normal height for a pet Beagle. Yes, he lacks a little fill under the eyes, but he will strengthen in head as he matures, and lets face it, not all pure bred dogs are the same type. Without seeing him in person, to me your boy looks a slightly longer headed Beagle - does he act like one? If he sings 'Awoo-ooo', and loves to ferret in the woods - chances are he's a Beagle, bless him!
