The American Beagler Forum

a guy i work with lost two beagles last sunday, someone found one on tuesday about 4 miles from where he lost them, the other one was found on saturday over 40 miles as the crow flies from where he lost them, she was headed in the wrong direction and crossed I-75 but she was headed somewhere. was just wondering how far you guys have had lost dogs show up from where you lost them. i remember my uncle telling me a story when i was a kid about a bear hound that was lost up by newberry in the UP of mi and it showed up a couple days later 10 miles south of the Mackinaw bridge, i just remember him telling me it was headed home. anybody got any good stories?

I lost one a few years ago out on Drummond Island.. picked him up a month later down in Georgia....

I have others that know this that get on the board. I promise this is the truth. My grandpa sold a fox hound to a guy in west virginia to a guy. The guy took it out in the wild and lost it. About a week later it was at grandpa's barn in Ky. Laying in its box. My grandpa called the guy and told him he couldnt believe it but this is the truth and I have no reason to lie. It is hard to believe but the dog track his way back to ky. I dont know how far away in miles but I still find this hard to believe and I seen and know this happened.

I had one gone for two years before i got her back.She ran deer and we never found her.Then two years later an oldman calls me up in western ky coal mine area says he had one of my beagles. He said she had two litters of pups and that was the reason he had called me he didnt wont anymore pups. Well i went up there not knowing which dog he had.When i got there i knew right away which dog she was because she is a solid black and white dog needless to say i brought her home she ended up being one hell of a rabbit dog with little work she had learned from ruuning loose You never know when a lost hound might show up

When I was a kid in Mo my Dad and uncle had blue tick Coon hounds Well my Dad Sold one to a fella 40 miles away...10 days later it was layin on the front porch my Dad called the guy he said he had lost it first night out...Gave the fella his money back and sold the same dog to a guy about 50 miles as the crow flys from the house 2 weeks later it was back on the porch again..
Dog Finally Died at my uncles place.......he lived around 8 miles from us and the dog used to make the trip about ever other day between the two places...they never Worried about leaving ol Jake in the woods or Swamps either lol

I have an old deer beaglehound cross that is one of my best deerhounds,well he loved to dig out the kennel to run and last febuary he dug out and didnt return back like he has done over the years,now this dog is 10 years old well anyway this past october I went to the kennel to feed up and sure enough he dug back in the kennel the same place he dug out 8 months earlier,I dont know where he went but I assume someone close by took him in and those cool october nights gave him the fever and he wanted to go huntin and he did and I still have him now.I wish he could go back to his summer home till next season.

don't know it to be true but, my Mom tells a story how two of her brothers took a dog they had across the river into KY one day to get their haircut. This take place in Tell City Ind, just across the river from Hawsville. They had to ride the barge across the river, that cost 5 cents. When they were done with their haircuts, they coldn't find ol Rex. He showed up two weeks later. They claimed that he swam the Ohio to get home. Then some years later they gave him to a farmer they know that stayed out around Derby Ind. He came back, again about two weeks later. He is a legand around the Aldridge folks of Tell City. There is only one brother left, but he confirms it along with the two sisters that are still alive. Thats 4 people that will confirm the story.

TC wrote:When I was a kid in Mo my Dad and uncle had blue tick Coon hounds Well my Dad Sold one to a fella 40 miles away...10 days later it was layin on the front porch my Dad called the guy he said he had lost it first night out...Gave the fella his money back and sold the same dog to a guy about 50 miles as the crow flys from the house 2 weeks later it was back on the porch again..
Dog Finally Died at my uncles place.......he lived around 8 miles from us and the dog used to make the trip about ever other day between the two places...they never Worried about leaving ol Jake in the woods or Swamps either lol

Thats the kind of dog I have been looking for, heck you could sell him once or twice a month and make a little extra money.

my dad and i had a redtick..(coon hound).. back in the 80s that we tried to loose many times just for the fun of it!!...to challenge him!!!...that dog could beat us home in the worst conditions!!!...LOL...he was famous to us for finding his way back from VA. after we lost him!...( we live in TN )...i think when we let him out of the truck...he hunted for the house...LOL LOL

An older man gave my Dad a Walker wolfhound and Dad had him several weeks. One Sunday evening he fed ole Buck and he was gone next morning. On Wednesday morning he showed up back at his previous home 90 miles away as the crow flies. He had crossed one interstate highway, one US highway and numerous smaller highways and county roads. Buster decided if ole Buck wanted to be there that bad he would just keep him!

Blubeagle my dad did the same thing to me, most of the time I beat him home also.

I moved to Oklahoma in 1993 and went hunting back to my old hunting spots in Kansas the next winter and it was a very windy day and could not find one of my dogs at the end of the rabbit hunt. This spot was about six miles from my Kansas house. I left my hunt jacket there and the next morning went back looking for my dog and also the next day and the dog never showed up on my jacket. The third day I got a call from the man that bought my house in Kansas and he said he went out to feed his dog in my old 4-pen setup and out of one of the dog houses came my beagle and he looked at the collar and gave me a call. I've never figured out how this dog knew to go back there, when we hadn't lived there for almost a year. By the way, the dog had a new collar on with my new Oklahoma address and phone on it, so nobody found my dog, he just found his way there. dboman

Friend of mine sold a fox dog to a man about 40 miles as the crow flys. One night he gets a call from the man and is the man who bought the dog , says he just got a prank call from a grocery store around the corner from the dogs original home. He asks him to go check it out for him, they have the dog.