Beagle Dog Breed Information

The Beagle is a member of the hound family. This breed is a hardy hound that has the look of the Foxhound but in miniature. This breed has a unique howl come bark as they chase their pray on the hunt. This is a well-built dog that is well proportioned to look at. The body is slightly square-built. The head is somewhat domed and moderately long. As with the body the muzzle is square and straight and intermediate in length, the nostrils are full and broad. The nose is black. It has large eyes, which are brown in colour and look soulful. The ears are pendant in shape and hang low and long. The tail is set reasonably high and not set over the back. Legs should be straight with good round feet that are firm. They have a medium length of coat that is hard but sleek and is easy to care for. Colours are broad and any colours are accepted but more desirable are tri- colouring, black and tan, red and white, lemon and lemon and white, orange and white, red tick and blue tick.

History: The Beagle dogs history has evidence that goes back to the 1500s. In England hunters would take packs of these dogs out for hunting as they work well as a team or on their own. It is thought that this breed has come from the Harrier and other English hounds. It was brought to America and has gained in reputation to become one of the popular breeds. Here we find the Beagle is more popular than in its native country. The National Beagle Club of America was formed in 1888. There is evidence that this dog was developed in 1830 in England. When it came to America it soon helped by injecting beauty into the previous hounds that had longer legs with weaker heads that previously were present. Snoopy from the comic strip "Peanuts" is appropriately the most famous Beagle to date.

Temperament: The Beagle dog breed needs good leadership and training. This needs to be firm but gentle and always consistent. They need a lot of mental and physical exercise to maintain a health balance, or you can get a dog that is obsessively barking, and can have destructive behaviour when left alone. This dog can suffer from separation anxiety. All this can be controlled by good exercise. This is a dog that loves to tracking, and you will have hours of fun fulfilling this need in your dog. While out walking your dog is better to be kept on the lead, because if he smells something he wishes to track, he is oblivious to all else, this includes you trying to call him back. If you meet this dog's instinctive needs you will have a lovely pet. They are loving, and like to greet all. Wonderful with children but it is best not to trust them with small pets as they have high natural hunting abilities.

Health issues: In some lines, you can have aka dwarfism, epilepsy, heart problems, and some lines have back and eye problems.

Grooming: The Beagle is a fairly easy dog to groom only needing brushing weekly. Bath only when it is really needed. Check ears and eyes weekly for signs of infection.

Living Conditions: Beagles are very active dogs indoors, but as long as you have enough space they adapt well to living pretty much anywhere. They would ideally like a yard in which to play. It can live in an apartment, as long as they are well exercised and taken out regularly, as they need to spend time outdoors, daily.

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The appeal of making obscene hand gestures while paying a bill to a despised company makes on-line billing irresistible AND convenient. But the downside to electronic billing is that Internet customers often don't receive the same promotional or "legalistic" literature that our "snail mail" counterparts do. Were it not for a friend's causal mention of it, I might never have learned of Verizon's plan to share their customers' personal information with other companies unless the customer "opts out." Since I want to hang on to the very last vestige of privacy any one person can have these days, I called Verizon, entered information on the key pad when prompted, then hit a wall when asked for my Verizon password.

Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I believe I have no fewer than 500 passwords in my life. Passwords that grant me access to pay bills and view bank accounts, enter dog shows, check on my kid's grades, look at news articles, get recipes, buy cool stuff, send e-cards, track UPS packages, create a newsletter, build a web site, buy postage on-line, and donate a milk cow to a family in Africa needing income. Back in the day, a four digit password number sufficed. When that wasn't enough, it became six digits. Then it became necessary to create a password that was a combination of numbers and letters. That evolved into some of the letters needing to be capitalized. It's only a matter of time before passwords need to be a blend of numbers, letters, symbols and a drop of blood pressed up against the monitor.

At this moment, I can rattle off from memory the social security numbers of my kids and spouse. I know my favorite credit card number and the 3-digit security number from the back. I know the birthdays and phone numbers of lots of people. And I can tell you instantly what my address and phone number was from when I was seven years old (HY-29345. Yes, boys and girls, there WAS a time when phone numbers started with two letters). I know by heart my checking account number, its routing number, my vet's phone number and the passwords of sites I access frequently. For a long time, I even knew from memory the AKC number of a group winning dog I showed for several years.

So as astonishing as it may seem, I am a mere mortal and can remember only so much. Perhaps if I'd remembered WHILE I WAS DOING IT that I was driving too quickly through a construction zone the other day, I might have avoided a $150 speeding ticket. Still, when the nearest place to pull over was the parking lot of a dog park, I made lots of new 4-legged friends and their owners. The ticketing police officer was not amused as he had to fight to get a word in edge-wise. That's how it is when dog people get together:

Policeman: "License and Registration please."
Me (to the person walking by): "Say, is that a Spinone Italiano??"
Policeman: "I clocked you doing Mach 1 in a construction zone."
Me to Spinone owner: "Can you believe what entry fees cost now?"
Policeman: "Normally, this is a $400 ticket, but I'm being a nice guy and reduced your actual speed so that the ticket is only $150."
Me: "Didn't I see you at Westminster in 2004?"
Policeman: "If you pay the ticket within 20 days, you'll be assessed two points instead of thirty."
Me: Yeah, I heard that an animal rights groups was threatening to show up at that dog show last weekend and cause mayhem. Where's a cop when you need one?"

But I digress.

I have a spiral notebook on my desk in which I've recorded every password I need to live my life in the 21st century. Sometimes I have five and six passwords for the same company, each one crossed off when it became obsolete. But none of my passwords for Verizon was working. None. I called other Verizon phone numbers and got no further than the prompting for passwords that never worked. This was now becoming a quest.

I worked my way up the chain of command until I believe I reached the personal secretary of the CEO. I explained my tortured story to her and guess what? She was able to opt out for me. I don't *think* she did it as an alternative to slitting her wrists and ending the call quickly. But it's also possible she was a fellow dog person and was overcome with the euphoria of helping out a partner in vice.

So while my little story has turned into a Verizon version of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," the point is that these days, it's probable that your information will be shared with anyone within a company's "good ol' boy or girl" network and you might never be informed of it if you are billed on-line. It this concerns you (and it should), by all means contact the customer service department of any business which bills you electronically or otherwise and ask: Are you sharing my information with anyone, and if so, I want to opt out.

A really good story about an expensive speeding ticket can't hurt, either.

S.E. Szeremy writes professionally and is the creator of [http://KnobNots.com] and [http://www.BabyKnobNots.com]

She has been an owner/breeder/handler of Pulik since 1978.