Breed All About It – Beagles
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beagles take the children naturally
they’re even-tempered
affectionate and have an affinity for
humans of all ages but beagles can be
difficult to housebreak difficult to
train and if you don’t enjoy the sound
of a beagle bein you’ll probably never
get used to it
I don’t be able owner will be someone
with an extremely large amount of
patience they’re hounds that can be
extremely stubborn when they want to be
and it’s always nice when their owners
are just as stubborn as they are perhaps
the most chronic problem beagle owners
report is that the hounds tend to follow
their noses
wherever the scent takes them I’m a ppq
canine officer for the US Department of
Agriculture and my partner is clash five
days a week
Bilka Mathis picks up her partner at his
kennel they carpool to work at Dulles
International Airport outside of
Washington DC Bill gun flash belong to
the Beagle Brigade its mission is to
sniff out contraband foods that might
carry pasture contagion flash examines
luggage his passengers arrive from
abroad Mediterranean fruit flies are
contaminated meat products have the
potential to harm thousands of people
and cost the agricultural industry
millions while they’re waiting for their
bags to come up we walk behind the
passengers and flash sniffs up through
all their bags and he tries to show me
which bags has food in them a lot of
times the people do try and pet the dog
and that is a distraction so I asked
them not to until we’re done working our
dogs are trained to passively alert on a
bag where is it
go hit which means that they actually
sit next to the bag they don’t pawed it
and they don’t bark that way they’re not
scaring people since I’ve started
started working him with passengers his
favorite odor seems to be bananas people
like them you get a great big German
Shepherd the kind of the use for drugs
and if they were going around the
carousel people be jumping and running
because they’re fearsome but beagles
but just innocuous kind of things
they’re real good they’re not
intimidating they’re they’re fun they’re
the good nature they love kids and I’m
just perfectly adapted for what we do
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beagles have been called large dogs and
small packages
they have little fear and large hearts
they’re hunters
detectives competitors and fine house
hounds and they don’t let anything stop
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