A beagle is a small breed of hound, larger than a foxhound, they are great hunt dogs.
I love beagles! I love dogs in general, but beagles are definitely a great breed.
Yep they are great fox hunters, they track and chase down their scent for hunters.
Unfortunately, they are also the most used breed for animal testing due to their size and passive nature. It is a very sad thing.
Yeah it's real messed up, animal testing and experimentation in general is a messed up field, humans are real cruel.
Yes they are, we truly don't deserve dogs. Beagles can be so loving, it is hard to think anyone could harm them.
Yeah beagling is the term for hunting rabbits, which makes me very sad because I have a rabbit and love him very much haha
Awww haha. I also love rabbits. The circle of life is a crazy thing.
Beagle
The beagle is a breed of small hound that is similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle is a scent hound, developed primarily for hunting hare (beagling). With a great sense of smell and superior tracking instinct, the beagle is employed as detection dog for prohibited agricultural imports and foodstuffs in quarantine around the world. The beagle is intelligent but single-minded. It is a popular pet due to its size, good temper, and lack of inherited health problems.
The modern breed
they were small enough to fit on a glove, and Queen Elizabeth I kept a breed known as a Pocket Beagle, which stood at the shoulder. Small enough to fit in a "pocket" or saddlebag, they rode along on the hunt. The larger hounds would run the prey to ground, then the hunters would release the small dogs to continue the chase through underbrush. Elizabeth I referred to the dogs as her "singing beagles" and often entertained guests at her royal table by letting her Pocket Beagles cavort amid