| The Beagle is a very intelligent, loving, | | | | successful at tracking a scent from the ground than |
| food-motivated dog. This make the breed highly | | | | they are from an arbitrary place in the air, but they |
| trainable and has helped the Beagle successfully enter | | | | still excel at both skills. Most beagles can even track |
| and dominate the work force. The real reason | | | | scents across water. It's very hard to outsmart a |
| Beagles excel as working dogs, however, is their | | | | beagle when he has a good whiff of a subjects |
| impeccably accurate sense of smell. For this reason, | | | | scent. |
| Beagles are often used as detection and tracking | | | | The Beagle's excessively effective sense of smell is a |
| dogs in rescue operations and law enforcement. | | | | huge benefit and asset to a working dog, but can |
| They are used to track and locate missing persons, | | | | turn into a significant obstacle when dealing with a |
| and they are used as both rescue and cadaver dogs, | | | | household pet. With such accurate noses, the Beagle |
| helping seek out living victims and bodies in the | | | | will always know when you are eating and what you |
| wreckage from buildings collapsing, fires, or natural | | | | are eating, or if there is something they might want |
| disasters. | | | | to get at inside the garbage can! This can be difficult |
| Though Beagles were originally developed as | | | | to deal with, being that Beagles are notoriously |
| high-powered game detectors for hunters, its role in | | | | food-motivated animals. The easiest way to |
| modern-day society has expanded vastly. The | | | | counteract this behavior is to train against garbage |
| Beagle's sense of smell is so accurate that they are | | | | digging or begging for people food, starting from |
| employed by the United States Department of | | | | puppyhood. If your dog knows he will never get to |
| Agriculture to detect contraband fruits and | | | | eat the bacon he smells on your breath, he will be |
| vegetables that may be smuggled into the country. | | | | less likely to go digging for the wrapper in your trash |
| They even have a name for this Beagle-based team: | | | | bin. |
| The USDA Beagle Brigade! Beagles are also used to | | | | Another problem with household pet Beagles and |
| detect things as strange as termites in homes and as | | | | their sense of sent is their innate desire to always |
| common as drugs in airports. They are a favorite | | | | track a smell that makes them curious. If you live in a |
| choice of law enforcement agents because of their | | | | rural area, this can mean your dog wandering miles |
| obedient nature and high intelligence. They also have | | | | away in search of a rabbit that could have bounced |
| one of the most sensitive noses of any of the | | | | through your back yard two days ago. Invisible |
| hounds. | | | | fences or shock collars are virtually useless against |
| It is said that the Beagle's floppy ears and | | | | Beagles, as they just don't care about something |
| moderately long snout help the breed when following | | | | giving them a light shock when they are following |
| scents by gathering the molecules from whatever | | | | something they could eat, play with, or even just |
| smell it is that they are following. Beagles are more | | | | follow! |