This is great!!! I adopted a beagle, God help me, abandoned at a horse camp by a hunter a few weeks ago. Shes a little long in the back but has a great trot, good feet & I think she could go barefoot. She drinks real well, goes all day, and loves both Raceready and Strategy, and grazes really nicely. She'd really cut down on size of a corral in camp too, and I wouldn't need a big trailer, however, at 2.3 hands I am not sure she could carry a heavyweight either and forget any collection since her nose would run straight into the ground. I'll be interested in the Parelli natural beagleship training because she has a mind of her own, very much unlike my laboradors who are more than happy to please me. Oddly, she does very little of that God awful beagle aroooo, which to me sounds like someone being tortured w/bad show tunes or being forced to watch old Ronald Reagan movies in spanish w/out english subtitles.
Jon (reluctant new beagle owner!) -----ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
To: msofen@xxxxxxxxxxx From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 03/18/2004 07:30PM cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Beagles in endurance?
Boris,
You forget one thing. Begals are hounds. Hounds have a mind of theirown and nothing in that mind is programmed to listen to anything ahuman says. So I suspect unless you want to go running corss countythrough the brush chasing rabbits instead of the others in theendurance race - you better find something other than a hound dog.
Your friend Bullwinkle
Mike Sofen wrote:
I have a really well-conformed beagle...well, it sort of looks like abeagle, but anyway, he eats and drinks really well and even though none ofmy saddles fit him, I'm totally sure he'll make a fantastic endurance mount.Granted, my feet will drag on the ground, and he might get a sore back, butsheesh, I won't need a trailer or even a truck to get him to a ride, and Ican pack enough puppy chow to hold him over for a month.What do you think? Has anyone ever ridden a beagle in endurance?Boris Badenov(remember - I also sell bridges)
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