The American Beagler Forum

The red color lightens as it meets the white. Like I said, there are 3 different, distinct colors on the pups-white and 2 different shades of red. I'll see if my buddy can get some pictures posted for me ( I don't have that capability yet)

I was taught to take them off when the pups are 2-3 days old. Fingernail clippers work- you don't necessily need surgical scissors.
It doesn't seem to hurt the pups much, and there is little-if any- bleeding. You can hardly tell the next day that there was anything there.

The two red & whites' I mentioned are truly red and white but where the red mets the white, it's like a strawberry blond--like the red is bleeding into the white. I registered them as red & white because of the copper noses and because I thought you had to have 3 truly distinctive colors to make a t...

I agree-Sevin on the ground and Frontline on the dogs.
You can get Frontline Spray pretty cheap at Drugstore.com.

Thanks for the heads-up

I'm relatively new to all this stuff-I've only have beagles for a couple of years now. I think I understand the genes and recessive genes, but I have a question. Last fall we paired our red & white male with a tri-color female. We had 3 tri's -black, white and tan- and 2 of what I thought were red &...

Our closest place is about 30 minutes away, but we typically drive an hour or more.