[Murphys Dad]

In my opinion, the woman was unbelievably rude! There was absolutely no reason for her to approach you and insult your beagle!

 

[Murphys Dad]

That would make me so mad. Beagles are not stupid, stubborn as all Hades, but not stupid. I have a friend at work who had a Beagle. He had to be put to sleep after being struck by lightning. She says he was too stupid to come inside during a storm. I say she was too stupid to bring her dog in out of the rain.

 

[Murphys Dad]

Originally Posted By: barking madBeagles are far smarter than people take for granted. A beagle will workout how to do things. Now that's far from stupid.

A border collie on the other hand, which is said to be the most intelligent dog is only smart because it does what its told. Now that's stupid.

I have several friends with border collies and I am fully convinced that my Bagel is far more intelligent than them however as you say if your IQ test is based on will you learn and perform silly tricks for you the human rather than what makes the most sense for me the canine, then Border Collies rank at the top and our beloved beagles don't even get honorable mention. Several years ago some one tried to test which of the two top breeds a border collie and a full sized poodle could perform a series of test involving memory and boxes and treats and he used his beagle as a control subject. The results was the Border Collie could learn and remember the tricks a little better than the Poodle, but the beagle, often breaking the silly buman imposed rules like not just ripping the box to get to the treat actually won the contest by getting the most treats using beagle rules, not humans rules. When a canine breed has been bred for 100's of generations to be independent thinkers, one must judge them on those independent standards of intelligence, not on our self imposed human standards.

A female beagle (a male also) can be trained find bed bugs with their noses, <span style="font-weight: bold">Caesar's Mom</span> could have simply asked this lady is she could detect bed bugs in house (with her nose) and when she replied no, she could have said, <span style="font-style: italic">by your standard your not nearly as smart as a beagle bitch</span> and if she didn't hestitate too much, or emphasize the last word too loud, she could have maintained her dignity with a smirk!

 

[Murphys Dad]

Originally Posted By: Caesar's Mom They're smart little problem solvers.

When Jersey was a puppy she loved to chew shoes but she'd get in trouble every time she stole one. One day she was chewing her blanket. I went to check on her and found a shoe UNDER the blanket. I guess she thought if she hid the shoe she wouldn't get in trouble. On another occasion she stole one of Mike's sneakers. She was just a puppy, maybe 12 weeks old at the time. Mike wears a size 13 sneaker so the shoe was as big as Jersey was at the time. She ran with it in her mouth and went to hide in her crate. Well, the shoe was too big to fit through the opening to her puppy crate. She hit the front of the crate with a crash. She sat down, shook her head out, went in the crate and pulled the shoe in after her. She was so cute and so smart that I almost let her keep the shoe. LOL!