I met a lady last week who was with a beagle and, as we have one, I stopped to speak to her. The dog (a bitch) was lovely - 8 months old and typically soft and affectionate. I asked her if they found her hard work as beagles can be and she said no - she had several others at home. When I said that we found that ours sometimes got on the scent of something and disappeared into the distance she said that they never let theirs off the lead.
What is the general opinion of this? Of course she may have a massive garden and there are other dogs in the family so guess they play together. The dog was obviously well cared for and loved, but I just love to see my dogs run.
Is it ok if they don't really get an opportunity for this? To be honest there have been times with ours when I have got her back on the lead after a 20 minute wait for her and have said "never again" and vowed to keep her on the lead. I haven't stuck to that though cos it seems mean. I never let the dogs off anywhere they could get onto a road.
I don't really have a firm idea of what I think here but thought it would be interesting to see what the general consensus is.
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what are you views on dogs kept on leads?
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secretpoet · 06/04/2015 10:19
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