? 3year old never been packed.

[fast tracker]

With some pack time do you guys think she will pack, she has always been ran solo. Would like to hear some of your experiences.

[Norshore]

One thing I would be sure of is that the dogs you pack her with are good quality. Not way faster or slower, honest mouths, no cold trailers, back trackers or check babblers. They need to be trash free and handle well.

If she has never been packed she needs to see that she can trust the dogs she is run with. This is important if she can run well on her own solo and will make the transition to pack running easier for her. I have seen dogs that were very good solo runner that were put down with less than steller packs. They learned quickly the dogs they were running with couldn't be trusted and it made the acceptance of new running mates hard.

Of course she is a beagle and pack running is in her DNA and some dogs will run with just about anything. JMHO

[Shady Grove Beagles]

Just my 2 cents and you know what that is worth !
I'd start off bracing her with one other dog and follow northshore's suggestions as to what you put her down with.
If she's hesitant to pack up and run with that other dog I would try kenneling her in a run beside that dog or to share a run .Let them get to know each other a bit.
If she takes to running with another hound do that for several times and then try adding a third dog.If she will continue to do her thing with those two you probably are on your way to getting her to run with multiple hounds.
Be aware though that there are some very good hounds that just don't want to run in a big pack.
A very good friend of mine ended up buying one of the best beagles he's had because the dog just wouldn't run Large Pack Trials.You could turn him out with 7-8 dogs and he'd run all day and lead the pack 90% of the time.
Enter him in a LP trial with 30-40 entries and he might lead the pack for the first hour or so but pretty soon he'd quit and come looking for his owner.
It sure wasn't for lack of desire or stamina---he just hated all that banging and chaos and would go find his own rabbit.
I had exactly the same experience with my Max dog as a 2 year old.Max was a hard hunter,hard hitter,bottomless stamina,bold as could be and I'd hunted him many times with half a dozen other hounds in the pack.
Took him down to the Southern Large Pack Championship trial in Louisiana and turned him out with 36 other 15" males and you could have knocked me over with a feather ! He wouldn't go!I mean he wouldn't even hark in when the pack put a big swamper past him in a sight chase.
He ended up going off and jumping his own rabbit and was having a heck of a chase all by himself.The whole gallery could hear him and said"he sure sounds nice,won't he pack? All I could say was "guess not".
Mel Faust was judging and rode up on his horse and asked "is that your hound down there running all by himself? I told him it was and he said go pick him up,he's done".
I thought it might be cause he was only 2 years old so kept running him and as a 3 year old went out to a trial a Buddy Whitehead's pens in Arkansas and entered him with 39 big males and you guessed it----he absolutely wanted nothing to do with that deal.
Mel was judging again and rode up and asked"is that the same dog you had down at my place last year? I told him it was and he said ,go get him and put him in the box".
I sold Max to an old hare hunter in New Hampshire who absolutely loved the dog and shot hare on snow with him throughout the winters.
Good luck with yours.

[cjgrabhunter]

I have a jam up bred male that don't like big pack of dogs either but he will never leave my place he is just to good of a dog and he will pack with my other dogs so i'm good with that and producing pups out of this world i don't care to hunt big pack of dogs anyway because then they don't all get to do that good of a job like going with just 2 to 4 dogs but that is just my 2 cents.