lifebeagle
September 18, 2015 7:50 AM Subscribe
Ha! I think my beagle would just stand on the deck, wagging her tail and waiting for a treat. Or go chase after a squirrel.
posted by beowulf573 at 7:55 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by beowulf573 at 7:55 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The beagle is likely named "Albert"
posted by griphus at 7:55 AM on September 18, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by griphus at 7:55 AM on September 18, 2015 [9 favorites]
I have wanted a dog many times in my life but never more than when I realized this ended with her hair in the beagle's mouth.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:56 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:56 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
...my beagle would just stand on the deck, wagging her tail and waiting for a treat...
You'll probably enjoy this video of a person pretending to fall next to their dog then.
posted by griphus at 7:57 AM on September 18, 2015 [14 favorites]
You'll probably enjoy this video of a person pretending to fall next to their dog then.
posted by griphus at 7:57 AM on September 18, 2015 [14 favorites]
Some of the related videos are so amazing I can't believe it.
posted by Nevin at 8:04 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Nevin at 8:04 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Not the first time a beagle has been a lifeguard.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:15 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:15 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
BEEG
posted by poffin boffin at 8:18 AM on September 18, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 8:18 AM on September 18, 2015
here is an important link about beagles and crime
posted by poffin boffin at 8:20 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 8:20 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
I nearly did an FPP earlier this year about the career of a Newfoundland lifeguard dog in Cornwall. Bilbo officially served as a lifeguard at Sennen down at the very tip of Cornwall in SW UK from 2005-2007, before the beach was taken over by the RNLI and their regs meant he had to be retired. He was credited with helping to save three lives. He was then used as part of publicity campaigns to encourage beach & water safety for children. He died in May this year.
posted by biffa at 8:38 AM on September 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by biffa at 8:38 AM on September 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Our lab would freak out if anybody was in the water, swim out and climb on top of them. We had to keep an eye on her.
posted by bonobothegreat at 8:51 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by bonobothegreat at 8:51 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just dropping my "beagles are the best" comment. That is all.
posted by blucevalo at 9:04 AM on September 18, 2015
posted by blucevalo at 9:04 AM on September 18, 2015
You can't top a beagle for tenacity.
posted by HotToddy at 9:05 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by HotToddy at 9:05 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
All the Beagle ever wanted was the windows down.
posted by zombieflanders at 9:06 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by zombieflanders at 9:06 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
here is an important link about beagles and crime
omg I know those dogs. They were picked up driving through White Castle without a license. I know we shouldn't have given them the keys but we'd been drinking and they offered.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:23 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
omg I know those dogs. They were picked up driving through White Castle without a license. I know we shouldn't have given them the keys but we'd been drinking and they offered.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:23 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh man, dogs and water. You just never know what you're going to get. Friends of mine used to have a mastiff. Total sweetheart of a dog, dumb as a bag of hammers.
I was out with them at a lake once, just wandering the shoreline and enjoying the scenery, and we get to a place where the bank is a straight drop of a couple, three feet to the water, then apparently on straight down a bit more. Anyway, deep enough that when the dog leapt joyfully into the water, it was too deep for her to touch bottom and she immediately started to flounder. She's thrashing around, starting to sink. I'm like, whoa, but her people are totally nonchalant, just chatting away about whatever like this isn't anything to notice.
And it goes on. And on. The dog is thrashing and sinking and thrusting her head back above the water to breathe, and it's starting to freak me out. I point out that, hey guys, your dog is drowning! But nobody was taking it seriously. They're all, no, no, it's cool. Don't worry about it.
This keeps on for a good minute and the dog looks like it's going down for the third time when I'm like, fuck this, I'm not going to just stand here and watch this dog die. I'm literally starting to pull off my hiking boots to jump in and save the dog, when whatever slow, mechanical chain of logic has been working its way through her brain for - let me emphasize here, a solid minute of thrashing and sinking and desperate floundering - finally trips the appropriate relay, and she goes: oh, right. I can swim.
And all the thrashing instantly ceases and the dog starts happily paddling around in the lake, having the time of her life.
I was just dumbfounded. Everybody else was laughing at me. On the way home the dog slobbered all over me. It was pretty gross.
posted by Naberius at 9:41 AM on September 18, 2015 [23 favorites]
I was out with them at a lake once, just wandering the shoreline and enjoying the scenery, and we get to a place where the bank is a straight drop of a couple, three feet to the water, then apparently on straight down a bit more. Anyway, deep enough that when the dog leapt joyfully into the water, it was too deep for her to touch bottom and she immediately started to flounder. She's thrashing around, starting to sink. I'm like, whoa, but her people are totally nonchalant, just chatting away about whatever like this isn't anything to notice.
And it goes on. And on. The dog is thrashing and sinking and thrusting her head back above the water to breathe, and it's starting to freak me out. I point out that, hey guys, your dog is drowning! But nobody was taking it seriously. They're all, no, no, it's cool. Don't worry about it.
This keeps on for a good minute and the dog looks like it's going down for the third time when I'm like, fuck this, I'm not going to just stand here and watch this dog die. I'm literally starting to pull off my hiking boots to jump in and save the dog, when whatever slow, mechanical chain of logic has been working its way through her brain for - let me emphasize here, a solid minute of thrashing and sinking and desperate floundering - finally trips the appropriate relay, and she goes: oh, right. I can swim.
And all the thrashing instantly ceases and the dog starts happily paddling around in the lake, having the time of her life.
I was just dumbfounded. Everybody else was laughing at me. On the way home the dog slobbered all over me. It was pretty gross.
posted by Naberius at 9:41 AM on September 18, 2015 [23 favorites]
My friend's beagle Dexter had the best day of his life when he had a bunch of us over to test out his new smoker.
Seeing that my friend was busy with one of the children, and his wife was busy with a tray, the dog seized the opportunity to seize the uneaten 3/4 of a whole smoked turkey from the edge of the table, and made a run for it.
The same dog, put out that his people were paying attention to the TV rather than his beagleness, walked out in front of the couch, looked my friend in the eye, and took a massive protest shit on the carpet before huffing his way out of the room.
posted by Kreiger at 10:41 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Seeing that my friend was busy with one of the children, and his wife was busy with a tray, the dog seized the opportunity to seize the uneaten 3/4 of a whole smoked turkey from the edge of the table, and made a run for it.
The same dog, put out that his people were paying attention to the TV rather than his beagleness, walked out in front of the couch, looked my friend in the eye, and took a massive protest shit on the carpet before huffing his way out of the room.
posted by Kreiger at 10:41 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
I am so glad my dog is only half-beagle because that sounds almost exactly what she'd be like if she had access to her full genetic heritage.
posted by griphus at 10:44 AM on September 18, 2015
posted by griphus at 10:44 AM on September 18, 2015
Loved how Snoopy was Not. Letting. Go. at the end!
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:48 AM on September 18, 2015
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:48 AM on September 18, 2015
They were picked up driving through White Castle without a license.
they were frolicking in a swamp and the sheriff was like "this scenario will not play out will what with all the gators" so he put them in the back of the car and called my friend's stepmom and was like "i've picked up your CANINE MISCREANTS" and then sent her the photo
tl;dr florida
posted by poffin boffin at 11:52 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
they were frolicking in a swamp and the sheriff was like "this scenario will not play out will what with all the gators" so he put them in the back of the car and called my friend's stepmom and was like "i've picked up your CANINE MISCREANTS" and then sent her the photo
tl;dr florida
posted by poffin boffin at 11:52 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just putting this here in case there are any Beagle enthusiasts unfamiliar with YouTube stars Maymo and Penny.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 1:23 PM on September 18, 2015
posted by The Underpants Monster at 1:23 PM on September 18, 2015
I love how at the end s/he is like, "Oh no, lady, you will be saved".
posted by procrastinator at 1:46 PM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by procrastinator at 1:46 PM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
My beagle requested a shoulder holster for Christmas.
posted by clavdivs at 5:10 PM on September 18, 2015
posted by clavdivs at 5:10 PM on September 18, 2015
You'll probably enjoy this video of a person pretending to fall next to their dog then.
... which led to this video, which made me so happy I can't even tell you. I emitted some sort of gurgle-snort that woke up my own dog and made him look at me like "are you watching dog videos on youtube again?!"
posted by lunasol at 8:27 PM on September 18, 2015
... which led to this video, which made me so happy I can't even tell you. I emitted some sort of gurgle-snort that woke up my own dog and made him look at me like "are you watching dog videos on youtube again?!"
posted by lunasol at 8:27 PM on September 18, 2015
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