Beagles and waterfowl

[Dakota Creek]

Make your life and the training easier .... go with a breed designed for waterfowl and retrieving .... labs, goldens, chessies, tollers ....lots to choose from!

[Deer Hunter]

I've only seen a beagle of mine retrieve once.

The chase was on and my friend, who was right beside me, took the shot and thought he'd missed the rabbit. Moments later my beagle (who had not witnessed the shot) came through hot on the trail. Then my beagle went silent and came trotting back, cottontail in its mouth, and dropped the rabbit at my friend's feet.

Why my beagle decided on that day to perform its one and only retrieve (for my friend and not me!), and how it knew that my friend was the shooter, I will never know. That had to be 20 years ago and my friend still rubs it in!

Haha. Little bugger. Great story.

I only had one Beagle when I was really young, all I remember is riding my bike looking for him most of the time.

[werner.reiche]

Not a good idea.

[greatwhite]

Beagles are not really made for hunting waterfowl.

[SongDog]

Hardest part would be getting a hound to stay still when your working birds in. I can see a little beagle just going apesht when the birds are coming close haha

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[jlmorgan]

First beagle I ever had would retrieve the shot rabbit and drop it at my feet, no matter who shot it and then take off and find another one to chase, these were snowshoes I'm talking about, although he would try to retrieve a jackrabbit by backing up while dragging it, priceless memories, he lived to a ripe old age of 16.

[punkrockerpj]

i have a walker/beagle mix who kills my chickens every chance he gets. loves to kill birds.
but when it comes to water... he acts as if he's melting as soon as he gets wet...

[ninepointer]

We may have turned a page. Look what my beagle delivered right to my back door this evening...

[Gilroy]

We may have turned a page. Look what my beagle delivered right to my back door this evening...

The dog must have been reading this thread and said "I will show you guys" LOL

[Ata83]

LOL thank you all for the replied and the cool stories !

the main concern and reason for Beagle is that Im gonna need my GF and family help with him ... and they like small dogs, and family already has a small Shihtzu ..
so searching smaller size hunting dogs, I thought beagle would be a good fit.

I hunt small game [which I see beagles are good for, with pic proof lol ] and waterfowl, and getting into deer and large game next season. I have other means of retrieving birds in water, so he would just be an add on I would imagine and in some cases helpful. getting it to keep quite for me to bring ducks in is another story, but ppl tell me with right training it can be achieved .. the jack Russel did it

other concern is water .. in spring and summer im usually on boat on water .. maybe if introduced early to water it would be more willing to have fun with it ?

any other small/medium sized breeds I should look at ? miniature golden retrievers ?