Poss rehoming o Beagle

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Any advice would be appreciated, quick background: My mum has been asked to walk a beagle for a friend of hers as she has just got a job and will be travelling alot. The dog is a puppy (not sure on exact age) he is kept in a cage in the house as he is absolutly manic. He has also never been off the lead on a walk. Mum had him at her house today and could only manage him for 20 mins as he was just too nutty. I know this is because he is locked up and has had no real exercise. The owner is having him castrated in a few weeks and then will give him a few weeks to see if he will settle. If he doesn't she is taking him to Woodgreen animal shelter for rehoming. Any ideas on how to calm him down would be appreciated or any ideas on an alternative home? Thank you for reading.
 
Exercise.

You can't have a dog with such a high work drive and not give it a job to do.

Seriously exercise exercise exercise.

I wish people would do their research before getting a dog.
 
I would advise getting him a working home, or at least give him to someone who has a lot of time and patience to train him or at least have a big, fenced in area where he can run and run and run.

Beagles are headstrong, they are pack animals and they are bred to go all day, as you probably already know, his current situation is as far removed from ideal as you can get.
He will not settle in that situation, being kept in a cage and locked up all day.

For a lot of breeds, ownership than feeding and a bimble around the block and hopefully the friend now realises this.

Hopefully in the interim, your Mum can give him a bit more freedom.
 
Its such a shame because apprentley he is a lovely looking and beautiful natured dog. It just worries me because this lady seems to have passed the buck to my mum to sort him out. He cannot get the exercise he needs on the lead but what if she lets him off and he gets a scent and legs it? He has his tag on and is microchipped but if he has an acccident mum would never forgive herself.
 
Right - don't let him off yet, but do get him on a harness and long line - it is not that much harder than lunging a horse.

Would he run off a bike?

Could you get the use of

A horse pool to swim?

An indoor arena
Tennis court
Basketball court
Where she could play ball with him or tempt him with a lure?
(He would need to do his business first to avoid getting into trouble?

A farmer with good fencing who you could borrow a field off?

However at the end of the day this person will never learn, helpful as your mum is being, I know it must be hard for her to see a dog suffer
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Hi, we gave a beagle a home about 18 months ago and she is an absolute delight..... but wasn't to begin with.

The reason why we came across her was because the man who owned her was out of the house 14 hours if not more of the day and she was tearing it to shreds even with an early morning walk and evening walk.

They are hard dogs to maintain and even with walks where they can go off the lead they are so stubborn and governed by their noses! She constantly kept escaping over gates to begin with and even if you called her she would just keep running and running! Now we have had a wireless petsafe put into the house and she has a 90 metre radius... after the first electric shock she got the picture.... they are very bright!

We are lucky enough to have a very safe house, all fenced for dogs so we are lucky........ I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT LET HIM OFF THE LEAD. They are a buggar to control but are fine with a harness and long lead as suggested above. They pull from the chest and its very strong so make sure you use a harness or they will just keep making that choking noise.

I must say she has settled a lot now she is 2 and half 3 years old .... may be a good idea to advertise at your local saddlers/feed merchants as most people that go there are most likely to be able to accommodate such an active dog. She is ever so affectionate and they are known to be very oving once they are out of the puppy phase...

You have a tough decision as if the lady can only keep him caged then that's not really very fair on him.

Sorry to ramble! XxX
 
Thank you for your replys and suggestions. Due to there being alot of snow near where this lady was to start her job she now starts tomorrow. This meant that she could take the dog for a walk when mum took hers today. They went down one of the fen roads, very quiet. Owner let the dog off and he stayed with mums dogs the whole time. He even came back to call!! He loved it. I know this may not last but at least he had a good run today!!
 
QR - people are always asking me why my dogs (two beagles and a mix) sleep all the time. Well ... it's because they are so well exercised that we can sometimes even skip a walk (especially as they are older now) and they don't even notice it. We can pick up their leads and they just walk matter-of-factly to the door to go. Keep em tired and they'll be happy! I should add that this is even though we don't have a garden to speak of and both OH and I work full time.

They are great dogs but only because they get mental and physical exercise on a very regular basis. I would therefore second all the advice so far and maybe add that regular training - mental stimulation - should be also advised as it is just as tiring for them.

Finally, I have a beagle who is 99% reliable off the lead (never say 100%, they will just try to prove you wrong!). I can and have stopped her in full chase more than once (a cat, some rabbits, birds (her favorite - she's a weird beagle)
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) by calling her back. She is my "trustee" and quite possibly the best dog I have ever had or known. The other beagle can never go off the lead because he is a little, as we discussed on here not so long ago, challenged. He honestly just starts to run and by the time he realises you are not there you are really not there. Silly dog. Not his fault, not only is he challenged, but he was kept locked up for the first five years of his life and never walked or even given any attention. When he was surrendered to the rescue we took him as a foster dog for (somebody forgot to tell him that he was only supposed to be with us temporarily) he had no training whatsoever. Now he does a lot, but good recall will never be one of them. I call it "beagle ear."
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Like others have said, they have to have soooo much exercise - constant if possible. I think they're best had as working dogs or farm dogs. My lad recently cut his paw badly and had to rest to allow it too heal... it was a nightmare as he couldn't stay still, hated not going out with me on the yard all day like he usually did and was so bored that he even began to badly chew his own tail and back legs
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My lad is out allll day with me, and on an evening he has constant access to a paddock which he and my JRT will play in for hours and generally hoon around. He also goes beagling pretty much every weekend with my Dad - if any of this exercise is taken away i'm left with a mental case!!

I still love him though, and at least he's always conked out from 8pm to 5am!
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Oh and CaveCanem just reminded me - on a day when i'm away at the races and my parents don't have him then my housemates/colleagues will swim him around the equine pool to wear him out!!
 
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