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The smarter the breed, the smarter the owner needs to be. Otherwise the dog spends its time manipulating its stupid owner. Dumb dogs seem to fare better with owners who are on the same intellectual plane. Shepherds are smart, and beagles are dumb.

Sounds like you should dog better.

I’d imagine that in most cases if someone has a beagle that’s outperforming a dog whose breed has years and years of selective breeding specifically for trainability, that the person handling them is beyond incapable.

Fortunately I don’t have to back this up with experience or evidence as artificial selection has already done it for me.

Mic drop.

To the op, get a mutt.
Pets are pets, to think you can get a hunting dog and not hunt it religiously is foolish.

I raised and trained beagles for rabbit hunting for 30 years. I've had beagles that were dumb and others that were very smart. You'd have done well to be on the same intellectual plane with the dumb ones. Nobody on here is more gullible and stupid than you. If you weren't a complete and utter moron you would realize that. You've certainly had it pointed out enough times by many of the members here. It's always funny when the little retard kid calls somebody else stupid though.

I've had registered dogs from some of the best bloodlines that turned out to be a disappointment. Much as your parents undoubtedly felt about you.

I do believe that... even losers have minimum standards.

You are a petty little man like many here. Openly part of the pack mentality that is so prevalent among today's neutered beta male. You might better spend time finding someone to wash that big yellow stripe off the middle of your back rather than nipping at your superiors here.

Our Beagle, Daisy, is the smartest dog we have ever owned and we have had some smart dogs. She can tell time, that is, we feed her at 5:30, and every day about 5:28 she waltzes into the kitchen and looks up at the refrigerator. She had a big vocabulary, she knows her name, she knows the work "walk" she knows lots of words.

Also, sometimes we will be planning a drive with her and won't say "go for a ride" and won't grab up the car keys, but she gets amped up and stands by the door. I think she has esp. Very very smart dog.

So it appears a dog fight has broken out in the dog thread, how charming.

Can you still suck a golf ball thru a garden hose... or did the Covid effect you lung capacity?

10 pages of opinions... no way the OP is still seeking wisdom on the matter.

This seems like a good time to remind you of two things. 1. I am not the one who is too damn dumb to train the world's third smartest dog breed. B. You can't seem to quit me. At last count I had made your ignore list two different times. If you don't care for the comments of someone who doesn't suffer mental and emotional midgets lightly, I'd recommend you usher me back over to your ignore list.

All dogs of a breed are not of equal intelligence, much like people.

Juvenile as always. It's all you've got.

Tell yourself whatever you need to.

All I keep hearing is you can’t train a dog. But feel free to keep providing evidence.

A non-shedding Labrador? That's pretty comical and I wish you luck finding one of those. If I'd paid more attention in Home Economics as a 3rd grader during the 'make your own stuffed critter' days, I could've now had a roomful of large teddies jammed full of Lab hair stuffing.

We have a pair of Labs and they're about as good of dogs as I could ever have hoped for, as hunters and just as wonderful, super smart, protective dogs when in the house and everywhere else we take them. Anyway, point is, I've been around Labs for decades, own two now and I'm here to tell you that Labs shed. A LOT.