[Uncle Buck]

I have so many good memoris as a kid hunting with a beagle...Had a neighbors dog that was a Heinz 57 variety mutt..Half cocker spaniel and half lab... Little dog beleive it or not..face of a lab, color of a yellow lab but small like a cocker spaniel...
Use to run both all the time for rabbits.. Just go run rabbits even when it was not hunting season... wow now my beagle... she would chase the rabbit slow...now thats how it suppose to be...heard that was good the rabbits don't hole up if they are chased slow.. If they are chased fast they will go in a hole.. This mutt would chase them fast but who is to say that his way holed them up.. Always heard that is why basset hounds are good...they chase the rabbit so slow and they do not hole up as easy....
Funny? my beagle and this mutt which would near die for me...That how attached he got to me...would even trail a no good common Norway Rat. I see a rat run down the dump and here comes the two dogs the mutt...AKA Smokey and my beagle...AKA Tick start to bark just where I saw the rat running..they did not care what kind of animal they were chasing.. I got to tell how they acted what it was.. Like they would put heir paws on a tree and look up and then I knew it was a squirrel or even ruffed grouse and ringneck too.. They would flush them for me..But it was more of a beeline run...Going from point A to Point B in a straight line.. I knew it was a bird running not a rabbit sigzaging..



How many heard that a slow dog is better for huntng rabbit so the rabbit does not hole up?


How many had a complete mutt that would hunt rabbits like a beagle?


I sure do miss all of that rabbit hunting with a beagle....Now that was outstanding days in the woods!!!!!!

[Mongojoe]

My father always kept a dog around for hunting squirrels, and I have had a couple of squirrel dogs myself thru the years...but I have never had a dog that I got specifically for hunting rabbits. However, when we lived in the country we had a couple of dogs that would run rabbits for you. They pretty much just picked it up on their own. Both were mixed breeds...one was a Beagle/? mix, and the other was a Daschund/? mix............... But I was always told that one of the reasons that Beagles were good for rabbits was that they were fast enough to keep the rabbit moving, but not fast enough to catch it.