Has anyone ever heard of a long-haired Beagle?

Question

We just got a Beagle pup that has long hair. It has the white tipped tail like other Beagles but has long hair.

We just got a Beagle pup that has long hair. It has the white tipped tail like other Beagles but has long hair. The guy who sold it to us breeds Beagle's. He said its parents are both full blooded Beagles.

We just got a Beagle pup that has long hair. It has the white tipped tail like other Beagles but has long hair. The guy who sold it to us breeds Beagle's. He said its parents are both full blooded Beagles. All the other pups are short haired accept for him. His hair is a little longer and thicker but has the traditional colors.

Answer 1

I can't suggest that your pup is a purebred but there is a way to find out if the parents are as claimed.

Do the mother and the father of the litter have their DNA on record with AKC? The long coated pup can then have cheekswab done to confirm it is offspring of those registered parents.

If none of the DNA is on record, then everything else is speculation. The 'white tip' on the tail is a common trait in pinto and piebald dogs so it's not a confirmation of anything. If wet down, the pup should have the same conformation as a standard beagle pup if purebred.

Long coat is recessive to short and can be hidden for generations and has appeared in some breeds from time to time. Mutations do happen as do throwbacks, but without DNA on the parents one really can't begin to speculate what has happened and it wouldn't be logical to spend much time trying. Have the same two parents produced long coat before? Each of them contributed a recessive gene for long hair, if this is not a mutation.

The pinto (Panda) GSDs caused quite a sensation when they appeared too but they have DNA backing them up and have continued to breed true to type.

There are other ways that a geneticist can test them to see if they are as claimed but unless this is a serious AKC breeder, I don't see that happening.

Answer 2

Long Haired Beagle

Answer 3

I had one years ago. Bought her from a pet shop in Ft Smith. Shop owner claimed she was AKC but offered no papers. Said he'd ordered 2 beagles for a local breeder but when the 2 arrived, both long hair the grader didn't want either. The shop owner said he understood as the short hair is the norm. He was selling each for $25 so I bought the female. Like I say, no papers, just the shop owners story, but that was okay, I wasn't buying to breed. he was the prettiest little dog and had the sweetest disposition. I wish I could find another like her.

Answer 4

No! There is no such animal as a pure bred long haired Beagle from any of major registration services. If someone is attempting to sell you one it is simply a mix. There is nothing wrong with a mix but you can get all you want through any number of Humane Societies at about $100 including shots and microchipping.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

No, there isn't and if you paid for a purebred then you were either sold a very defective pup with a major fault pertaining to breed standard or were taken and the dog is a mix.

Answer 7

long hair is nice but requires maintenance and u have to grow this out for a long time

Answer 8

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Yes, I'm very familiar. As one poster noted, a "feist" is really a type of dog. Probably the one specific breed that qualifies as falling within the "feist" type is the rat terrier (which I have one of). Remarkable dogs. I've seen two rat terriers who can climb trees (mine can't). They're a combination of sight hound and beagle and terrier so they really are amazing at dealing with small vermin and game. Very popular in lots of hunting territory in the South. It's not so much that the breed is dying out. It's that it's a type of dog (that is used to describe a lot of mixed breed terriers plus rat terriers). Now that rat terriers have been formally recognized by AKC, dogs that some hunters would have referred to as "feists" in the past now get their breed name. The other point about the "feist" is that it's bred for performance, not appearance standards. Thus, while most feists are dead ringers in appearance for what everyone else would call a rat terrier, there are a few with the longer, button ears of a beagle (and it's clear that someone crossed a beagle into that line). There is little or not effort to remain true genetic lines, it's more a case of a hunter who breeds the dogs that do the best job hunting for him. And it produces a short-haired, agile and fast, smart little dog type that people call a feist.

Answer 9

You got screwed!!!!!! Hope you didn't pay much for it!!! If it was purebred, you would have gotten AKC registration papers with it!!!! If there are no AKC papers, you cannot tell if it is pure or a mix!!

Answer 10

are you shure it's not a wired hair terrier? They look tind of like one. You got played if someone told you it was a purebred begal. Heres a oic of a wired hair terrier: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=wired+hair+terrier if it's not that SOL it's not a purebred begal GOOD LUCK