Registered: May 2007
Location: fairmont wv
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had to put my 8 yr old beagle gyp down tonight due to having cancer all through her mammarys gland vet said probly already spread to her organs it busted out in 1 place she been losing wirght last couple weeks didnt want her to suffer anymore i put the last dog i have on the beagle board for free to a youth had to get rid of my hounds 2 yrs ago with my bad health im just done my wife said you love to run them dogs i said yes i do but i think its time to quit for awhile maybe for good i sure will miss her had her from a puppy it sure puts a empty place in your heart guess im getting senamental in my old age

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brother you are in good company. many of us have lost our dearly beloved dogs. i lost my first dog last june. i had her 12 years. now i'm dreading the loss of my 10 yr old feist. when they get to be 10, their days are numbered.. i've got my dogs' picture right here by my monitor so i can continue looking at her. man i miss that girl.

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i keep rabbit dogs myself. i have one in the house for the kids and she is a wonderful dog that makes me smile every day. they arent only our hunting tools, they are our best buddies. if u ever get back into beagles let me know. ill drop a pup off on my way to visit family in sw virginia. i go every summer. in my opinion i think you should get you a new pup.

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yea they get like family back in my younger yrs i didnt get attached to none of them but as i got older if i got a dog and really liked it i started getting attached to them i had ole molly from a pup at 6 mons old she could circle a rabbit as good as any older dog get down a crawl through the thickets if she had to she didnt care what other dogs did she went hunting the minute you cut her loose i built her a nice wood box wraped in in a blanket buried her under a cherry tree she liked lay under in the summer tommoro im going to pick some field stone and build alittle circle around her grave and fix some kind of little head stone for her i sure will miss her

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i know the pain there i had to put a old hound down she was 14 black and tan put her down on xmas a few years ago she was my brothers and he was killed in 2001 so she meant alot to me now my old walker looks like she is gettin it

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i keep rabbit dogs myself. i have one in the house for the kids and she is a wonderful dog that makes me smile every day. they arent only our hunting tools, they are our best buddies. if u ever get back into beagles let me know. ill drop a pup off on my way to visit family in sw virginia. i go every summer. in my opinion i think you should get you a new pup.

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I am going on 70 had to put my service dog a lab down 2 monts ago she was 12 and by side for 11 years went everywhere I went to all the big hunts everywhere, I put my best hound down and said no more hurts too bad. BUT you might be making a BIG mistake if you quit man it hurts BUT I can not think of not having a hound around they are so SPECIAL just hold on a little while.
Man I feel your pain, but DON"T QUIT BIG MISTAKE . H L Meyer

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know what you mean i have had beagles and coonhounds from the time i was a kid never did get attached to them but in my later in my life i get a good dog i get attached and i really got got attached to molly buddy of mine just called told him he said i always told him she would be here till i died or she died said he never belived it but i kept her to the end had to sell my hounds couple yrs back due to parkisons diease now this my world going to hell in a hand basket told my buddy good lord paying me back for all the hell i raised in my young days he said dont you belive that for a minute and your right i will miss looking out at my pens seeing no dogs just going through a bad time this evening you take care

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man hate to hear that hillbilly .... let me tell ya a story i had 5 years ago . i had just gotten married , found out wife was pregnant , and i had just bought a new house . in the mean time i was moved in the new home but didnt have kennels built or set up so i had hounds just tied out to their boxs . i work in coal mines as a mechanic and had to work on a sunday cause we had a major piece of equipment broke down . i came home after dark was in january and wife wanted to run out to town , we were gone about hour and half came home and found my 10 year old nt ch ch snap dog , and a very nice bred female pup had been stolen , some reason they didnt steal my 4 year old out of snap ? she never really likes strangers - lol . but they were gone about a month and the people started bragging and a off duty deputy sheriff over heard them and the deputy just happened to be NOEL BRALEY that coonhunted and owned dual grand STYLISH RENO , well i got them back , still had my collars on them , and they were in horriable shape , count every rib , back bones . noel gave a bunch of shots to em where he owned a dog supply also , but snap never recovered , found him dead in the lot about three weeks after i got him back . about a month later my lady dog climbed in the lot and hung herself by her collar ( she always climbed since she was 6 weeks old ) . i was so peed off i sold that pup and didnt even cross my mind to coonhunt for 8 months . but i got that drive again , and bought a kennel full , kept with my walker dogs but tried some different lines . my advice is take you some time , take a break for awhile , i think you'll get the drive back !

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yea you know what im going through and so do the others on here i know what your saying but with my health the way it is dont think could put the time in getting a pup started and hunt it the way it needs and i cant afford to buy a good dog right now being on this disabilty i went through this when my good tinber choppper gyp got cancer in her ear had to have her put down i gave a buddy of mine a good 6 mon old pup that was runing and treeing his own quit for a yr then had to get back in it so im just see what happens might just get me a good red dog to pleasure hunt that dont need hunted hard all the time i give a young boy down in charleston a young beagle gyp last yr i would lrt him have this other gyp but i lost his number pm him awhile back and havent heard from him havent seen him on the board for months hope everythings alright with him and his family him and his granpap has hounds think his last name is britton or something like that think his granpap lives in sisson ville you taje care ole buddy

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your talking about andrew britton i know him , ive got his number if you want it ill pm it to ya

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IS HE JUST A YOUNG BOY STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL I THINK IF THATS HIM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL HIM SEE IF HE CAN COME GET THIS GYP IF HE WANTS HER MY BOY TOOK THE OTHER GYP TO HIM HE WAS GOING TO CHARLESTON TO A FUNERAL FOR HIS WIFES FAMILY THANKS

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Hillbilly,

I sort of understand ... I have lost dogs that meant a lot to me. Then again I don't understand.

Is quitting really the right way to honor the memories??

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Hillbilly,

I sort of understand ... I have lost dogs that meant a lot to me. Then again I don't understand.

Is quitting really the right way to honor the memories??

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Sorry for your loss. I've lost several dogs in last 30 years, never gets easier. It hurts no matter what way you slice it.

What your wife is trying to tell you is she doesn't want to see you end up like an old dog, just sitting around wasting away.

You have to have something you enjoy that gets you up and doing. Getting out of hounds is not easy. Due to antis and wolves I got out in 05. My other half has two sitting around wasting away (15 and 14 yrs old). I know a bunch others who gave it up. We all found something to do.

Several are bird hunters, can handle one dog better than a pack. I still have the police k9's and chessies. Another friend took up restoring old cars.

Either way, you still need to get up and moving. If you don't get back in...find something else. It is not goin to be easy either way...

I MISS my hounds! Though I have had offers to go hunting, it is just not the same w/o my own pack.

Best wishes...

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LET MY LAST 2 RED DOGS GO 2 YRS AGO I REALLY MISS NOT HAVEING HOUNDS GOT RID OF ALL MY BEAGLES EXPECT 2 NOW THIS HAPPENS TO THE BEST BEAGLE IVE HAD IN YRS JUST MAKES ME WANT TO JUST QUIT I BE 62 HERE IN A FEW MONTHS GOOD LORD WILLING HAVE PARKISONS DIEASE AND OTHER PROBLEMS MY BUDDY HAS TOOK ME COOH HUNTING A COUPLE TIMES MAKES ME WANT TO GET ANOTHER HOUND 1 OF THEM WAIT AND SEE HAD TO SELL MY HORSE CAUSE CANT RIDE MUCH ANYMORE IVE HAD HORSES AND DOGS FROM THE TIME I WAS VERY YOUNG ITS JUST IN MY BLOOD I ENJOYED WORKING MY BELGIUM HORSES GOING TO THE HORSE PULLING CONTEST AND ALSO PULLED PONIES NOW CANT REALLY DO NONE OF IT JUST MAKES ME WANT TO THROW MY HANDS IN THE AIR AND QUIT CANT REALLY ENJOY WHAT I LOVE TO DO ALL MY LIFE

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Well guys what he is doing isnt so bad i know when your heart is into it its hard to stop but atleast he is passing down his tradition to a young sportsman to enjoy the outdoors with a hunting buddy and is making an attempt to save todays youth

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I know what you mean about loosing dogs, it is hard But i always find another may not be the same but I still enjoy my personel dog and my hounds. I have Fibromyalgia and heart and lung problems and hunt with a cane most of time as it helps on hills. I know that's not what you have but I gave up coaching young people to go back to what I loved as a kid and young man. I work everyday for now and I write and try to get more kids into hunting dogs. You are just down right now and rightly so, listen to your wife and other people and fight your way back. My sons often handle my dogs for me or help me, there are always ways. I am 48 in 3 days and being not what I was just a few years ago doesn't make you less of a man just different than you were. God sometime gives us challenges and you are helping that young man out with the beagle. Do what you can and enjoy life.

Sincerely, Jeff And may God walk with you.

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sorry to hear about your health you never know what the good lord has in store for us my oldest boy is the only boy that hunts with me anymore but if he goes rabbit hunting ole molly was the only 1 he would i told him take both of them hed say molly all i need my youngest boy took a mangers job at walmart he works so much he aint got time to do nothing he drives about 2 hrs each way till i think june before he can transfer back to his home store when they get a opening hes more of a horse person than a dog person he likes the herding dogs heelers and such i give him a red dog when i quit hunting he was working walmart and on a big farm ask me if i wanted him back i said i couldnt hunt him do what you want he sold him to some one he knewmy granddaughter was really mad you take care hope you the best

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Keep in touch, nice talking with ya.

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good talking to you to and also everybody on here we all have the same love for hunting and hounds all my buddys keep telling me go find another dog said you probly not going to find another dog that you like the way i did molly but still good find another good dog time will tell really getting bored no horses to feed and fool with right now and down to 1 beagle and just cant get the disire to take her and go with my buddys and its raining this moroning

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Bud the feeling want ever go away just hurts a little less every day. NOW come on and get up call your buds get the little dog by the collar and enjoy what you love. YOU WILL FEEL BETTER I BET. At least when I finaly went it helped me. See you down the road. H L Meyer

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Hillbilly the way I got started was going with an older gentelman in bad health. He had the dog, payed for feed, kept him at his house and I feed and took care of him daily. He went with me for a few years and just sat in a chair at the truck until his health
wouldn't let him anymore. He had his ol dog to look at and I gave him updates on how we done. I buried his old dog 2 yrs ago and now have dogs of my own. He comes out when he can and looks at my dogs and I stop and give hunt reports regularly. He still gives advice and tells me old huntin stories. I never thought 15 yrs ago chasing dogs through the woods in the dark would be so much fun. I have learned alot from that ol man and will miss him dearly when he is gone.

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Hillbilly the way I got started was going with an older gentelman in bad health. He had the dog, payed for feed, kept him at his house and I feed and took care of him daily. He went with me for a few years and just sat in a chair at the truck until his health
wouldn't let him anymore. He had his ol dog to look at and I gave him updates on how we done. I buried his old dog 2 yrs ago and now have dogs of my own. He comes out when he can and looks at my dogs and I stop and give hunt reports regularly. He still gives advice and tells me old huntin stories. I never thought 15 yrs ago chasing dogs through the woods in the dark would be so much fun. I have learned alot from that ol man and will miss him dearly when he is gone.

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i will have to say good afternoon to you went out for awhile to the local restaurnt to catch up on the local gossip hope your doing well today its getting alittle better each day but i tell my wife just dont feel right looking at a empty space in my pen where the best dog i had in yrs is no longer there but guess i should just suck it up and maybe start looking for a replacement maybe you take care

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