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Hi all!
Now, before I start I want to let you know yesterday i signed up on a dog forum and asked for help on the same subjet but those tools misunderstood absolutly everything I said so I ended up with one person telling me my mom's stupid, dosnet know squat about dogs, im stupid, my mom dosnet even deserve a goldfish and that im a cruel person and any dog brought into my house must be so sad. obviously those pople were tools, PLEASE dont give me any hard time here. I am getting a beagle puppy and I just want some people that own beagles to give me some tips on how to do things and what i should watch for.
Now, about my family. We live in a fair-sized house on an acre of land with fields all around us. The neighbour that owns the fields on the north/west size of us allowws us to go into the field and walk or play with the dog as long as we dont flatten all his crop(its only hay but still).
My family currently has my mom, a stay at home mom in search of a job. my sister whom i despise and will be leaving in a year for college. An 11 year old aussie/irish setter that my mom owns(the most amazing dog you could ever meet). Two cats, ones an annoying poofy one that watches me while i sleep and belongs to my sister and the other is a fat, stupid, bratty, mentally challenge, orange tabby that belongs to me. Then we have a rabbit whos always fully penned in my room and gets to curious about everything(one time she had one of her ears stuck in the vacum cause she wanted to know what it did).
about me, I'm 15, im going into grade ten next year, i excell with all my school courses and next week ill be getting a job at every canadian's(except me >_>) favourite coffee shop so all the money from that will go towards buying a puppy.
as for the puppy, I wouldn't be getting it untill december 2007 or june 2008. Preferabley june so id have 2 full months off high school to get it house broken and go to OB classes with it. I would either be looking in the toronto star newspaper for beagle ads to get one of those dogs or find a repuable breeder near-by and get on the waiting list for next summer as soon as possible. Note to those of you that think I'll go to a backyard breeder: I will REFUSE to buy the puppy if i am unallowed to see the dogs kennel, the parents and i wont buy the dog without a vets check certificate or something that gives me insurance about the dogs health.
I lready know that beagles like to follow thier noses and will dig under fences, I plan to save up to get a low fence dug into out front yard and the east side of our property, the west has about 20ft deep of trees, rocks from old fences, sheds and an electric fence on the other side for the cows, no dog that comes here ever takes an intrest in that side, although i will take the proper precautions to make sure the lil tyke dosent try to get at the cows. The back yard has a "fence" of cdar trees which is kinda like the other one and we arent so worried about it going back there, again we will take precautions though.
I will let you know now our dog Millie is not, and never has, been left outside by erself all day, once in a while someone might open the dog to let her go do her business outside and will come back to the doorstep and sit there as long as it takes for you to notice her, if you take your time she'll start barking at yu though. and Millie is always where the people are so thats how it will be with the beagle, stress on this is the dog will never be unsupervised unless someone needs to go out and leave it, then we'll have a pen or something untill it's old enough to free-roam the house like millie.
And please dont lecture me on how Millie will feel forgotten. Theres three people in my family, not all three of us will be with the puppy at every waking moment. Only one person needs to watch it and one person needs to be in earshot for back up.
So, does anyone have any tips of good breeders in southern ontario(canada) or have any tips for when i pic out my dog, i can use any information, form life expectancy to annual costs, to the brand of foods youd suggest to the size of collar i should get... I want to have the "crib" prepared perfectly before the "baby" arrives.
Thanks so much,
Bloodred
Now, before I start I want to let you know yesterday i signed up on a dog forum and asked for help on the same subjet but those tools misunderstood absolutly everything I said so I ended up with one person telling me my mom's stupid, dosnet know squat about dogs, im stupid, my mom dosnet even deserve a goldfish and that im a cruel person and any dog brought into my house must be so sad. obviously those pople were tools, PLEASE dont give me any hard time here. I am getting a beagle puppy and I just want some people that own beagles to give me some tips on how to do things and what i should watch for.
Now, about my family. We live in a fair-sized house on an acre of land with fields all around us. The neighbour that owns the fields on the north/west size of us allowws us to go into the field and walk or play with the dog as long as we dont flatten all his crop(its only hay but still).
My family currently has my mom, a stay at home mom in search of a job. my sister whom i despise and will be leaving in a year for college. An 11 year old aussie/irish setter that my mom owns(the most amazing dog you could ever meet). Two cats, ones an annoying poofy one that watches me while i sleep and belongs to my sister and the other is a fat, stupid, bratty, mentally challenge, orange tabby that belongs to me. Then we have a rabbit whos always fully penned in my room and gets to curious about everything(one time she had one of her ears stuck in the vacum cause she wanted to know what it did).
about me, I'm 15, im going into grade ten next year, i excell with all my school courses and next week ill be getting a job at every canadian's(except me >_>) favourite coffee shop so all the money from that will go towards buying a puppy.
as for the puppy, I wouldn't be getting it untill december 2007 or june 2008. Preferabley june so id have 2 full months off high school to get it house broken and go to OB classes with it. I would either be looking in the toronto star newspaper for beagle ads to get one of those dogs or find a repuable breeder near-by and get on the waiting list for next summer as soon as possible. Note to those of you that think I'll go to a backyard breeder: I will REFUSE to buy the puppy if i am unallowed to see the dogs kennel, the parents and i wont buy the dog without a vets check certificate or something that gives me insurance about the dogs health.
I lready know that beagles like to follow thier noses and will dig under fences, I plan to save up to get a low fence dug into out front yard and the east side of our property, the west has about 20ft deep of trees, rocks from old fences, sheds and an electric fence on the other side for the cows, no dog that comes here ever takes an intrest in that side, although i will take the proper precautions to make sure the lil tyke dosent try to get at the cows. The back yard has a "fence" of cdar trees which is kinda like the other one and we arent so worried about it going back there, again we will take precautions though.
I will let you know now our dog Millie is not, and never has, been left outside by erself all day, once in a while someone might open the dog to let her go do her business outside and will come back to the doorstep and sit there as long as it takes for you to notice her, if you take your time she'll start barking at yu though. and Millie is always where the people are so thats how it will be with the beagle, stress on this is the dog will never be unsupervised unless someone needs to go out and leave it, then we'll have a pen or something untill it's old enough to free-roam the house like millie.
And please dont lecture me on how Millie will feel forgotten. Theres three people in my family, not all three of us will be with the puppy at every waking moment. Only one person needs to watch it and one person needs to be in earshot for back up.
So, does anyone have any tips of good breeders in southern ontario(canada) or have any tips for when i pic out my dog, i can use any information, form life expectancy to annual costs, to the brand of foods youd suggest to the size of collar i should get... I want to have the "crib" prepared perfectly before the "baby" arrives.
Thanks so much,
Bloodred