Sorry just need to vent. I have a 5 month old male beagle x and I seriously can't cope anymore. I wanted a dog for ages. Eventually my partner agreed (with the terms that he liked the breed) so we agreed on a beagle. We looked into it a lot and finally bought our puppy. We have quite an active lifestyle and I am usually a calm person so I thought we'd walk it. Couldn't be more wrong. he pees and poos everywhere. He appears to be house trained and then I'll let him out and bring him in then he'll go all over the floor. I'll be calm and it won't work. I'll show it him and he doesn't care. I catch him in the act and take him outside and he still goes inside! Barks and cries when he's alone. He jumps all over my 1 year old. Chases my cat bites all the time. I've always had dogs and read behavioural books but I'm losing my mind. The only thing I could give him credit for was coming to call off a lead. But today he's run out of our garden whilst I was watching. I've called him and he's not come back. I've run over walls and fences and he was under a bush eating something gross. He's now come home and sicked black stinky stuff all over my carpet. Took him out again and bent down to put him on the lead and he ran off and did it all again. Including throwing everything back up all over my carpet. I've been in tears for the past 2 hours. I don't know what to do. I love him when he's good but HATE him when he's bad. I feel for my little boy because I'm always telling the dog off for jumping on him so I can't spend the time I need with him. I grew up with dogs and I wanted my son to be able to have the same. But it's driving me insane. Everyone is telling me to get rid of him but i'd feel like i had let him down. I need some advice. PLEASE HELP.