The walls literally shake with beagle howls anytime another dog has the audacity in front of “their” house.

Watching the saddest Disney movie of all time with my one year old hound/pit mix and a portrait of my late TWC in the background lmao

Hello all! My husband and I just got our first dog a rescue hound mix who is turning 1 in like 2 weeks. She's been at our home 4 days and need advice on basic training.

She supposedly knows sit from the shelter and will do it sometimes. How do we reinforce it? It's it too early?

She is also HUGE at tugging at the leash and at this point has not pooped and peed on the same walk. Most times she gets taken out she won't do anything other than tug on the leash and when we try and stop hee she tries to wriggle out of her harness. We do our best to take her out often so she won't pee in the house, but on at least once occasion she peed on the floor within 15 min of coming back in. Again is it too early? Or are hounds just that stubborn.

I know it seems early but my husband is getting so stressed and questioning why his dream was to get a dog in the first place. I keep trying to reassure him but I think the lack of sleep (she needs to go out at 5 am sometimes due to her not peeing since 5pm the night before) is getting to him. I'm worried tonight she won't pee when we take her out again and she last peed (in the house) at 1pm. Any tricks or are we expecting too much from her?

I think this boy is coming home with me soon. They listed him as a bloodhound mix but I’m thinking American foxhound? Do you think he is a mix?

I shall call him, Gus. :)

Hi all,

I recently rescued an 8 year old beagle on Saturday from a neglectful home. The owner was banned by the province for owning animals for the next 20 years, and is facing a $25k fine for the death and neglect of her other dog.

She is a silly, sweet, happy, curious beagle in general, but we are having some major issues.

She is food obsessed- trying to steal food, counter surfing, constantly whining and crying even though she has just been fed, its never enough. My son can no longer walk around freely with his snacks, or have them on the living room table.

Today I gave her a kong filled with some treats and pears, and when I went to sit beside her she started high pitch yelping like someone was hurting her, I was shocked and sad for her. Would this be a type of resource guarding ? ( I didn't try to take it ).

She is very anxious at night, and at moments during the day. Anytime she sees me she generally follows me around whining for something ( food, outside ( doesn't have to potty, just wants out ), attention ( doesn't want pets or snuggles) and doesn't let up.

She also is obsessed with poop, her own, my cats, my other dog's, my toddler son. Its actually nuts to me how she is so set on getting poop.

My toddler and I haven't been sleeping properly, so the vet prescribed her trazadone at night, as gabapentin did nothing for her or her anxiety. I'm hoping she won't need it long term, and the training i do during the day will transfer to night ( right now we all need sleep to be at our best, so that's why she is medicated at night ).

We have training classes scheduled for the end of February, but I was wondering if anyone has some experience dealing with a rescue ( unsure of her old day to day routine ), I know she was kept in a crate for majority of the day and nights, which hasn't helped any poor behavior she may have had prior. I do not own a crate.

I'm just wondering if anyone can help me mitigate this in the meantime while we wait for our classes.

Some things I've started doing :

Whining/barking at me/in general : I get up, no touch, talk, eye contact, and walk around my home, ignoring her, compelting small tasks. She follows, and this can last up to 25 minutes before she gives up and goes to lie down. Not feasible at times when I'm cleaning or trying to eat or feed my son however, it is effective when I have the time to spare.

Counter surfing - right now body blocking, and saying down. Isn't working so well.

Poop obsession - this one has been really hard, as my son needs to potty train, which requires him to be in his birthday suit all day and sit on the potty when he has to go. Diaper changes are a huge issue as she is always trying to get the dirty diaper and wipes as I'm changing him, I've had to put them up high while changing, but she still tries to get them. She is persistent. She is like a toddler herself.

I am open to any and all advice. I am cross posting this in multiple subs.

Signed,

A tired momma who wanted to do the right thing for this dog.

Not a whole lot going on behind those eyes right now 🤣

Shenan is the type of hound that is incredibly suspicious of being given anything that may house a pill. Some days she won't even take a regular treat from me unless I toss it and act like I don't care.

Right now, she is on antibiotics and will soon be going on arthritis meds as well as having a surgery which will probably come with more medicine. I need some suggestions for how to get her to take her pills. She doesn't trust pill pockets since she once got the pill out of one. She's extremely suspicious of folded pieces of cheese. I may have some luck with turkey slices, but I'm hoping for some other suggestions.

She also very much likes to spit treats on the ground and pick them up on her own, so trying to just shove cheese in her mouth hasn't been working.

Hi all, my wife and I recently acquired our 2 month old basset, Frankie, she’s got tons of energy and I’ve read that many people recommend waiting until 6 months to start hard training. Basically I would like to locate a rabbit dog trainer that we can send Frankie to, we have the resources and land to train her, just not the time at the moment. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

TLDR searching for a rabbit dog trainer for my basset hound

My beagle Louie (left) and peanut(right).Not sure what peanut is I think he might be a foxhound. He’s 5 months old. Any ideas what kind of hound he may be? He’s about 22 inches tall already.

i didnt even know that was a thing. sadly the house is sided with gravel to aid in the runoff. she is now restricted from those areas but it seems the entire world is full of pebbles to eat. is it even possible to stop this behavior she is 8 weeks now and a trash rescue.

Our Plott Hound has always been mildly reactive to people. He’s not a fan of strangers, but loves all dogs.

The last few months he’s gone from mildly reactive to uncontrollable. Trigger or no trigger he’s always on guard and ready to blow up. The second he goes outside he will sniff the air, his hair will stand up, and howls and won’t stop. We have a fenced in yard, and letting him in the back without a leash just to use the bathroom he will howl.

Walks? Zero triggers and he’s a nervous wreck. Hair up, howling, pulling.

At this point we can’t even bring him out to enjoy outside which he has always loved.

How can we fix this? He’s been on 32MG of fluoxetine for a while.