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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beagles

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In adopting our rescue beagle, Lucy, earlier this year, I needed a good reference book, giving me the history & care material necessary for understanding & working with a Beagle--this was my winner! I perused, read through, and really "reviewed" several books at my local libraries, and decided upon this one as the best to put in my reference library at home. Not only is it very informative, to the point, and full of great advice and tips on getting to know your beagle, it does not focus too heavily on the show aspect of a beagle.

I found that many books on a dog will be almost 50% to 60% focused on how to breed the dog, teach it "show-quality" skills, and succeed in the competition arena. Being a casual family dog owner, I didn't need any of this info!

Good book, and worth the time and money invested. Happy Beagling!

I really enjoyed this book! All the info is up to date, and it has really good new training tips. As someone who has worked with pets for some time I found lots of good tips and info I would have usually needed more then one book to get. This would be a great book for a first time beagle owner or someone who has had them for years,

We rescued our beagle from a shelter, and prior to that, knew the basics of the breed. This book has been very helpful in giving us the details that are particular to beagles. It's very well-written, and easy to read. I especially like the authors use of "sidebars" to give the reader interesting and useful tidbits. This is a great book for beginning beagle owners!

This is a very comprehensive book and has been very useful. What I liked about this book is that the author has a sense of humor, as you need to have one if you own a beagle, and that makes for great reading.

On the downside I would say that the book doesn't have enough pictures/photo's of beagles. You need to have a few to say "agh cute", etc.

Other than that it helped tremendously with understanding my new beagle puppy.

Just had to comment on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beagles...a couple of years ago I decided that I'd like to have a beagle again...I had one during my teen years...and thought that a little research was in order. I was right and this book covered so many facets of beagle behavior that I realized that I would have to learn to accomodate if I was to have a meaningful realtionship with one of the little darlings. The book gave me a much better idea of what my expectations should be and what kinds of compromises and precautions I would have to make to make beagle ownership a joy and not a trial for both me and the dog.

Both Poochie and I give it five stars!

Found this book to be the answer to all. Very enlightening!

As the owner of a rescue beagle, I found this book to be incredibly helpful. This book provides a full range of history about this delightful breed of hound. I was able to determine what materials and equipment my hound would need. It is an excellent book for all owners of beagles, from happy pet owners to people interested in showing their hounds. My beagle is a lovable and trusty pet, so I was mainly interested in the parts aimed at pet owners.

A good book and no doubt beagle owners and those who love beagles will enjoy it as well.

Having grown up with a beagle, I thought I knew this breed, but author Kim Campbell Thornton pleasantly surprised me with new facts and insights into all that is Beagle. Her book covers everything you need from nose to the white tip of the tail. I especially enjoyed the Beagle Bonus pullout boxes. This is a must read for anyone blessed to have a Beagle in their life.

This book is helpful to any beagle owner. It covers all of the basics and goes into plenty of detail for just about anything you might want to know about your beagle or to consider when thinking about welcoming a beagle into your family. The book does go into quite a bit of detail about breed standards and AKC events and whatnot. Unfortunately if you don't have an AKC registered dog none of this pertains to you. Good intentions abound, but the level of snobbery in the AKC will keep plenty of good dogs (maybe even better *gasp* dogs) from field and agility trials. This isn't a downfall of the book, but if you're like me and have a rescued or adopted beagle, or even one thats just been fixed, much of this book is useless as it pertains to AKC or Nat'l Beagle Club trials and events. I would have liked to see just a little more coverage of training and behavioral issues, but the information overall is pertinant and usefull. Whether you have a registered beagle or not this book is a good tool and packs plenty of bang for the buck.