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[MikeSmithWV]

I am a Engineering Tech. at a Southern WV Coal Company which means I spend most of my days mapping a coal mine and timing it so the Stock holders can count their money. I cant remember not having some kind of hunting dog. I was introduced to Coon hunting as a small child. Coon Hunting was the love of my life. When we wrote stories in Elementary school mine would be a coonhunting adventure. Somewhere around the age of 16 my dad went to the night shift at work and thats when we gradually switched to Beagles. I started trialing when I was 22 Years old and enjoyed it. I'm 31 now and wife and kids get more time than they used to but no matter what happens there will always be memories of dogs in my mind.

[Aaron Bartlett]

Im a Ammonia Refrigeration Operator.
Ive had hounds of some kind ever since I can remember.

[Beagled1]

For a living I work as a freelance writer & used to do housecleaning until I injured my knee beyond rapair last year.

I've owned Beagles since I was 13yrs old ... kind of a long story but the abbreviated version is that I prayed for a hound for months, then 2 weeks after my old dog died, an oversized stray lemon & white Beagle wandered into my school. I think she may have been a Patch hound, but who knows. She started my obsession with hunting. I went on vacation to Keene, NH in '95-'96 and had the opportunity to take her hunting with me She was fast as lightning - not much for line control but would hunt until she had to drag herself out of the woods. When she died in 2000, I got a bluetick Beagle and now have a pack of 8 hounds ...

[Blu Tick Beagler]

I am the Northern District GM for Windstream Communications(was Alltel). I run all of operations for what we call the Western Union(Great Lakes) area. I spend my days in a shirt/tie and jacket (my wife would add sitting on my ass in a big leather chair).. I spend my evenings either running dogs or watching my kids play sports.. Both are my stress relief

I have been around dogs all of my life.. I grew up running my grandads hounds and rabbit hunting.. For years my pap told me to stay away from those "field trails", but I never asked why he thought that way.. He passed away in 2002 and left me an envelope.. When I opened it it was full of ribbons that dated back to 1952.. He made 4 AKC FC's in his day, but never mentioned it to me..Grandma said one day he came home from a trial, and said he's never go back. I guess that's why I am so picky about my hounds.. His had to be perfect, and thats what I grew up running...

[windsplitters]

I am a AWS Certifed Welding Inspector and the Quality Assurance Manager for a nuclear waste container manufacturer I have been running my own beagles for about 10 years before that I coon hunted some and ran with my cousin he always had beagles as far back as I can remember.

[Gang]

Electrical Contractor here. I was an avid scratch golfer that also loved burning the slicks off my 68 Camaro a 1/4 mile at a time before my son brought home our first Beagle puppy. I went to my first field trial at 38 years and handled a lil male for my nephew and came home with a blue ribbon. Man was I ever hooked. Up until that point I'd never been around dogs that could actually do anything, other than chew up my good boots, chase cars, and bark for no good reason at 2:00am. When I carried his little male back home he sent me home with my first grown 15" male Beagle. Having only one grown dog and a small puppy that ole male got a ton of solo time. I finally got up the nerve to enter him in a trial and I'll be dadgum if I didn't come home with another blue ribbon. And could have sold the dog at the trial for $2,000.00 to an older gentleman who really wanted him bad. I just didn't feel right selling him since he had only been given to me about a month earlier. Well when I told my nephew about it, he chewed me out and told me we could have split it. LOL He won two trials that first year and placed 11 out of 13 trials I entered him in. He became a field champion the following year. Fido will forever have a home here. I've never had a better bud. The old Camaro is covered in my shop and my Taylor Made's havent seen a golf course in about 7 years. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

[HarleyPA]

My old man was an operating engineer. Local 542 for kodiac. Had Beagles since he was a pup.
My Grandfather was a farmer, had hounds before he had kids. I say hounds cause I doubt they were straight beagle.

I don't think there's a tittle for my job. Basically I'm a part time vegetable farmer. When I'm not doing that, I install alarm systems. Mostly commercial fire protecting systems, but we do some residential burglary systems as well. I've also been known to do some auto body repair and carpentry work on the side.

I started off as a mechanical engineer. I had my name on a patent before I was old enough to drink. Gave it up cause of the office politics really turned me off.

[Mark T]

Excellent topic. I am a field service technician for Caterpillar. Generators, Industrial and Marine engines. Worked in the On-Highway stuff till I got the field job about 2 months ago. 10 years of hard work paid off. The job is awesome, but less time for the dogs. As a kid I lived in the woods, trapped and hunted deer and nearly everthing else you could hunt. Went to Tennessee after high school to a tech school in Nashville. Came home and started hunting again and listening to my neighbors beagles run, same as they did all the time growing up. My dad and all his brothers hunted hare years ago when the population was out of site here in NCentral NY in the 50s,60s and 70s. Started hunting with my neighbor, Stub Barker (Mr Stubs beagles), and next thing you know I got a pup. Took my judges course in 2000 and judged all over the north east and canada. Now with more work, kids and the growing cost of traveling I don't trial as much. But Have a 34acre pen at home and bought a piece of land in Maine after going hunting up there 3 years in a row. Hunt every weekend possible, here in NY. Been Hunting in Maine, NY, VT and NH. Have met some great people. I guess I would have to Blame Stub for my addiction. Still deer hunt, but after deer season its off with the dogs. Mark Trudell Williamstown,NY

[g&b kennels]

Great topic. I sell nuts and bolts in the Eastern Ky and southwest west va. Anyone local looking for a bolt man check the website on my profile.

I am kinda new to beagles only have had mine for a couple years now.

Barry

[kjohn2hunt]

Quailty Supt. for keystone foods , always had beagles.

[blackrunbeagler]

I am a freight relocation specialist That's a fancy made up title for a plain old dockworker. Work for Estes Express lines in West Middlesex, PA. Been in the dogs for a few years, wife says too many already. Cool thread, lets you see how different but so alike we all are.
Aubrey

[DRamey]

I went to college right out of high school in 1977. Left my third beagle at home with my parents (Mom would only allow one or two at a time) and dropped out to sell mining equipment and components for 23 years before I retired and decided to change careers. I worked as a tutor at a local high school and fell in love with education. Long story short, I do my student teaching next spring and hopefully will graduate and become a productive member of society again as a high school math teacher. By June I will have finished 12 college math classes in 2 years (along with education classes and a few more general ed reqauirements). Anybody doesn't like your life, change it! Old dog, new tricks doesn't apply to people! I have kept 3 hounds during this time to get started back seriously next year. I have had beagles for 38 years, with a short break between when I was in college right out of high school. Before I started back to college, I put my wife through nursing school after she decided on a career change (she has a BA in Paralegal Science from Eastern Ky u.). We hope to return to a "normal" existence in about a year. My wife has bought her hunting license every year since we married, but having young'uns and nursing school has put her behind in her outdoor sports. We are a family that shares the outdoors, and the beagles have been a great way for us to share many a cool evening together listening to hound music, setting aside a supper table for ham sandwiches and chips on the tailgate. Now that there's LIVIN"!

[D.J. Wright]

I am a Paramedic for Warren County EMS, and I am 29 years old. I just recently started into beagles about 1 year ago. Before beagles I fished alot and I have been deer hunting with hounds for about 17 years.

[bennetdr]

I'm a maintenance supervisor for DuPont plant in Washinton WV been there 28 years. I've been around hounds all my life. Grandad and dad had foxhounds, coon hounds and beagles as long as I can remember.

[Emery]

DRAMEY, I am jealous. I wish I could get my wife out and run dogs with me.