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While the Beagle is a
loving, protective, intelligent, funny, and healthy
breed of dog, training can be challenging. This
particular breed has the capacity to learn just
about anything but the difficulty comes into play
because it also has a strong will and a bit of
stubbornness in its personality. We recommend that
you start training your puppy as young as seven
weeks. Although the training would not be too
serious or difficult, it would be setting some
rules.
You need to keep in mind when training a Beagle,
that as puppies, the attention span is limited.
Therefore, you need to keep the focus on just one
thing and make the classroom time short. We suggest
that you give your puppy about a week to become
accustomed to its new home and environment before
you start any type of training. Otherwise, you will
find the puppy too distracted to learn anything.
With the Beagle, you
have a couple of areas that tend to be the most
challenging, which includes potty training and
barking. Some dog breeds can be taught to go outside
for business very quickly but unfortunately, the
Beagle is not one. In fact, it usually takes
anywhere from 10 to 16 weeks to complete potty
training for this breed. Because of this, you need
to remain patient but also consistent. In addition,
rather than scold when accidents happen, use
positive reinforcement in the form of praise,
playtime with a favorite toy, or a small treat. By
going this route, you will find the results far more
successful.
Then, male dogs, particular those who have not been
neutered, tend to bark at other animals and howl at
things such as sirens. This breed is more vocal than
others so you need to establish when barking and
howling are acceptable and when they are not. Just
remember that many times, people think when a dog
misbehaves that it is completely the dog’s fault but
in truth, the problem is often the owner and the
method of training being used.
Let us say you have a Beagle that barks at people
who come to visit. Obviously, this type of behavior
is undesirable. Some suggestions on how you can
control this include taking the portion of your
dog’s daily food and divide it into about 10
portions. In other words, if your dog typically gets
two cups of food a day, divide the two cups into
small portions. First, ask people to walk past the
dog without saying anything. Instead, have the
person go to one of the food portions.
Have the visitor take one portion of the dog’s food,
placing it in the dish. Make sure the person does
not interfere with the dog eating but offers praise.
Obviously, if you have just one visitor for that
day, then you would take the other nine portions and
feed the dog on schedule. This particular trick is
great for people who work out of the home. For
instance, if you had a massage therapy business with
about four visitors a day, this works well.
Otherwise, you would have to put your Beagle up all
day, which would then cause problems with separation
anxiety.
Now, speaking of separation anxiety, this breed is
definitely not one that does well alone. For this
reason, most breeders would recommend you have a
second pet in the house, or children or adults at
home. If you only have time and space for one dog
but work outside the home, you could be faced with
some challenges. Before you turn to keeping your
Beagle kenneled all day, you might try leaving the
radio or television on. Often, the sound of other
voices will help tremendously
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