The American Beagler Forum

Just figured I would start a thread on little tips and tricks to beagling. If anyone has any they want to add please chime in......DH

Tip#1 Giving your beagles a bath- When it is raining lightly or has just stopped raining and the brush and under growth is wet I carry a bottle of baby shampoo and squeeze a small amount on each dogs back from the back of the neck to the tip of the tail and the just let them run. The combination of wet brush and the soap along with the dogs running threw it is like a car wash. Each dog comes out rinsed and as good as new.

Tip#2 Keeping your dogs teeth clean and healthy- I use Biotene drinking water additive in there drinking water always. It keeps tarter and plauqe from forming and gradually thins old plauqe.

Tip#3 Starting a pup- After I expose a young pup to a few wild rabbits by trapping them and then letting the pup chase a tame rabbit I then will kennel the young pup with an older dog for a few weeks that it will eventually be taken to the wild with to run for the first time. The pup bonds with the older dog and follows the hound while it is running a rabbit instead of it sitting at your feet.

I have few more but will start with these.

Good post DH!

I like the first tip..let Em bath themselves.

Where do you get the additive to there water Andre?? Good tips!

The bath tip must be a NY thing, a friend of mine from NY told me that years ago. It works great.

John-PA...ha..ha!! Your right it probably is a Newyork thing. I learned that from my good friend Andy-P from dirtypond Beagles.

Another tip- I have a GreenBay Shooter female that would bleed so much from the tip of her tail after hunting that I thought I was going to have to dock her tail. Anyway I was at the Neversink beagle club SPO trial last year and while she was running and old time beagler turned to me and said gosh that dog is bleeding like hell. I told him i was going to dock her tail after the trial. He turned to me and said, just put some Bag Balm on it for a few weeks. He said something about the bag balm keeping the skin soft at the end of the tail causing less trauma when the dog wips it's tail. Well I kinda laughed it off but then the week after I tried it. I put it on the dogs tail twice a week for a few weeks and after those two weeks I could not believe how much better her tail was. She still bleeds a little but no where near as it did before. And that was only after a few weeks treatment. If I did it more ofter I'm sure it would stop all together.

Anyway BCbeagles as for the teeth enzyme,
Most on line pet suppy companies carry it. I have purchased it from Healhty pets pet supply and Amazon.com. You can search your search engin for suppliers, Just make sure you put" Biotene enzyme pet water additive" as a search because Biotene makes many products and some are made for humans. It comes in a 4 oz pump bottle and you mix two pumps for a quart of water or 8 pumps for a gallon. I have removed sone of my older dogs plauqe with a dentel scraper and have been using the Biotene and the plauqe has not come back and what plauqe I could not get off her teeth started to thin and fade pretty well after the first few weeks of using it. Also they smell better, my older dogs breath would nock you out before I started using this stuff. Now it is much better....DH

Deerhost, that explains where the tip came from. I got it from Cheech, him and Andy run together a lot.

Thank you Andre.

Hey John, Thats BLEEPING funny!! Small world eh?.............Safe running to you.......Andre

Ear Remedy

My bird dog had "crud" in her ears.
So i got on here and searched for a cure.
**A guy said 1 part white vinegar mixed with 1 part rubbing alcohol
I used it for 3 days and it worked excellent!!

Then i tried it on my old 14 year old beagle that is mostly deaf.
Increased his hearing 50% !!!

1/2 white vinegar 1/2 rubbing alcohol
3 days in a row
approx. 3cc's