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5 FEMALES and 2 Males Her first litter and she is like a PRO

Finally

Bill:Who is the female and who was she breed to ?Glad we had a chance to talk some at the PP world. Albert

Albert,

It is my Sugar female (littermate to Sundown Triple Threat)and she was bred to Chip off the Block.

Bill

There will be some Total Dog prospects in that litter. It is great that you got 5 females.

Congratulations! Sounds like your litter has a very nice pedigree!
Any chance I can convince you to take that collar off of her while she's nursing and in with the babies??

Honey,

I would love too, but she has this habit of bailing out and looking for a bunny. When I pulled down the drive this evening there was a rabbit about 40ft from her kennel and she was going crazy. She is the one in the kennel I will not take a chance with. When we bring her inside it comes off.


Bill

I try to keep the bunnies in their pen

wvbill wrote:Honey,

I would love too, but she has this habit of bailing out and looking for a bunny. When I pulled down the drive this evening there was a rabbit about 40ft from her kennel and she was going crazy. She is the one in the kennel I will not take a chance with. When we bring her inside it comes off.


Bill

OMG, what is wrong with that Beagle?? LOL

Would a nursing bitch really go off after a bunny?? Mine are obsessed with their babes the first few weeks...then by about week 3 they slowly try escaping their motherly duties, lol..

Cindy...Most are Rabbbit Dogs..not just a pretty face
Betsy

Beaglebrit wrote:Cindy...Most are Rabbbit Dogs..not just a pretty face
Betsy

But their maternal instincts don't come first??
Interesting.
BTW, my Beagles will chase anything furry, squirrel, bird, rabbit, cat...so just caus some bitch chases a bunny doesn't exactly impress me as being some great hunting trait. It is a nice touch whenever some of the hunting dogs have pretty faces though.

BTW, my Beagles will chase anything furry, squirrel, bird, rabbit, cat...so just caus some bitch chases a bunny doesn't exactly impress me as being some great hunting trait.

Wow, that's scary coming from a beagle breeder!
My golden retriever and the yorkiepoo down the road will chase furry things too-you'd have to witness a hunting beagle in action to truly understand.

On another note, what does the collar hurt? We've had beagles and coonhounds for 20+ years, always keep the collars on and never had a problem-not even sure how a problem could occur? Just wondering

marr24 wrote:

BTW, my Beagles will chase anything furry, squirrel, bird, rabbit, cat...so just caus some bitch chases a bunny doesn't exactly impress me as being some great hunting trait.

Wow, that's scary coming from a beagle breeder!
My golden retriever and the yorkiepoo down the road will chase furry things too-you'd have to witness a hunting beagle in action to truly understand.

On another note, what does the collar hurt? We've had beagles and coonhounds for 20+ years, always keep the collars on and never had a problem-not even sure how a problem could occur? Just wondering

What is scary about what I said??? My dogs chase balls too. Brit pissed me off and I shouldn't have reacted. My point was that while my Beagles do think they are some great hunters, I have never had one with newborns leave the back porch for more than a minute or two (to poop and pee) before they are howling to come back in and run to their puppies...usually with me close behind trying to paper-towel any discharge they're slinging....okay, now maybe THAT is scary.
I have seen Beagles hunt at Aldie. I've seen mine go screaming/howling bug-eyed through my woods after critters and then tree 'em and bark like fools. I just find it hard to believe a nursing Mom would take off after a rabbit for long but maybe a full field bred would??

Collars..collars get caught up in things. Just this morning my Honey had a stick caught in her bark collar and she wouldn't move (she's prissy but her daughter is the biggest, feels no pain, bonehead ya ever saw -- go figure). I think my Honey is smart. She's careful. I knew something was wrong when she was sitting by the woodshed not coming bounding for her breakfast. Once I removed the twig she was her thankful, happy, tail wagging , silly self again.

I grew up on horsefarms and the people that left halters on their horses usually were sorry, eventually. Those big rings on your hunting type collars would worry me that a pup may get a leg hung up in one...I'm sure it's unlikely but I just try to eliminate as many potential dangers for my pups as I can. May sound silly but when you can get a thousand + for a healthy 8 week old puppy you go that extra mile

And WVBill, I do think your bitch is pretty.

But their maternal instincts don't come first??

With many really good hunting dogs that hunting drive is part of their maternal instinct...They need to provide for themseleves in order to provide for their family and that is purely instinctive,,and it does not matter what kind of food and supplements you provide they will seek to fulfill their own needs.
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