Back in December I posted pics of my future hunting partner and blood trailer, Elly May. http://forums.bowhunting.com/bowhunting-talk/43732-heres-my-new-blood-trailing-wonder-dog.html Well, she's seven months old and we've started training. She's doing fantastic at figuring out the obstacles and puzzles, following the trail and finding the "deer", but for some reason she's not opening up. She's whined a couple of times, but she's not barking on the trail at all. Not sure if any of you have any experience with this. This could be a good thing, especially if she's kept on a leash. Then again, it would be a bad thing if she ever got off the leash. I keep hoping she'll finally get excited enough to let me hear her. Maybe when it's a fresh trail with fresh tracks, scents and blood she'll finally start singing to me.
not to much experience...but if she is anything like my beagle on a leash....all she wants to do is roll around on her back on anything that smells!!! she is an awesome dog, best demeanor ive ever seen in an animal,,,just sooooooooooo stuborn and dramatic, and a food moose as well...I wish I did train her here's my beagle..Sandy
Beagles are awesome dogs. I've been told that a house pet won't hunt, but that's not true. If she has good instincts it's probably not too late to try.
One thing I do know about dogs is that they will learn some behavior from other dogs...if you can get her out with another 'vocal' dog it might just get her to open up.
This. When training our beagles to hunt rabbits(we can't use them on deer here) most pups wouldn't open up until they got to running with the older dogs. After the first time or two it was music to your ears.
