The American Beagler Forum

Who runs bells on their dogs?

I find bells to be very distracting. It offends my sense of propriety.

you mean people actually tie bells to a dog, for what reason?

I tried the round sleigh bell style for a very short while. I liked them at first.It helped to know how close young dogs were to me ,especially when getting them to handle. But soon learned I didn't like them because I had a dog get a dew claw stuck in the bell 2 different times. I quit using them all together. They got annoying to listen to after a while anyway.

I've got a variety of bells for different tones used them on my pointing dogs. None on the beagles.

b-4 bells, had yotes come in on dogs. since the bells, no yotes. coincidence , maybe.

only at Christmas time.

Tried a church bell once. Dogs couldn't do much.

Used them on my grouse dogs. Never tried them on beagles but seems like they would be very distracting. Worked great on the English Setters though.

I like the bells the way they sound. Just sit on the hil or a log sip some jack coke and listen.

You don't think bells are annoying to the wearer, put one around your own neck and walk around for a while. Why would you think it would be any less annoying to your dog than it would be to you? Not trying to be a smart here it is a legitimate question . I have known several guys to go through the bell stage, The point here is that they went through it.

Dale L. wrote:Tried a church bell once. Dogs couldn't do much.

Thanks Dale you owe me a keyboard cause mine just wore a mouthfull of coffee!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA

I use them and like them because I can tell where the dogs are. One of my buddies doesn't use them and sometime he would be toning or giving a light jolt to bring the dogs in and they would be within 15---20 feet of him. They don't seem to annoy my dogs. I keep my bells on my e-collars and when I pick up one of my e-collars at home and the dogs hear the bell they get fired up ready to go hunting. I like the swiss bells.

wireman252 wrote:I tried the round sleigh bell style for a very short while. I liked them at first.It helped to know how close young dogs were to me ,especially when getting them to handle. But soon learned I didn't like them because I had a dog get a dew claw stuck in the bell 2 different times. I quit using them all together. They got annoying to listen to after a while anyway.

Same here. And I will add on more than one occasion I notice the bell interfere with a dog being able to hear other dogs running that were just a little ways off. It would typically be on one of those days when the sound just stayed dead in the air with maybe a little wind or something but it kept it soft enough that unless the dog with the bell actually stopped for a second it just never heard the other dogs until they got closer. I'm also sure there were times when I would be calling a dog that might be a ways out and it just didn't hear me because of the same thing.

No bell, Garmin 320, my silent bell.