Can beagles be apartment dogs?

Question

I am going to be getting a beagle soon, right now I live in a house with a big backyard so as a puppy it will have a yard to play in, but in a year or two I will be moving out into an apartment. The things I'm concerned about is the yelping/wailing/barking noises the beagle makes, is there anyway I can prevent that starting as a puppy? Also, does anyone have any tips who have successfully owned a beagle and raised it in an apartment?

Answer 1

My beagle Max and I lived in a house with a huge backyard until he was a year or so old, then we moved to an apartment. We took fairly long walks 4 or 5 times a day (besides work, it was pretty much my whole life!), but he still bayed and cried while I was gone. (I got the reports from my not-so-happy neighbors.)

When we lived in the apartment, he bayed out of loneliness and boredom, and he was pretty destructive, too. When he was a pup and we lived in the house with the big backyard, he barked and bayed at anything he perceived was in hi territory, i.e., anything he could see. Now we again live in a house with a large backyard and he barks and bays at squirrels, cats, the mailman, the UPS truck, the FedEx truck, people on the sidewalk, and sometimes nothing at all that I can tell.

Beagles are noisy dogs. And I don't think it can be trained out of them unless you use one of those horrible bark boxes on a collar that administers electric shocks when they bark. Please don't try that - it's terribly cruel.

If a having a relatively quiet dog is important to you, check out the AKC information and choose a different breed.

Good luck with your new pup!

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/Oy0xT

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

As long as pets aren't restricted in the apartments, it should be fine keeping a Beagle in an apartment. I don't really think that there is much you can do to prevent that as a puppy. Just start to scold your dog for noise now and hope that it doesn't keep it up. It should be fine, though.

Answer 4

Beagles are a hunting breed of dog and do best in yards and large areas as they need to be active at all times. My dad raised a couple of them and I remember how active they are. They are wonderful pets and can be trained to do just about anything, but it would be kinda cruel to them to keep them in an apartment as they need the stimulation of hunting. If your out walking them in a city, and they see a squirrel climbing a tree, the poor dog is gonna want to go after the squirrel. That's in their nature. Check out other websites on different breeds if you want to be able to take them to an apartment. The AKC website is a good start.

Answer 5

Beagles are not the type you want to live in an apartment because thay need alot of exercise other than walks and dog parks and stuff.

Answer 6

Frankly beagles need a lot of exercise, and yes the sound they make can be quite irritating. If left alone in a small apartment it can become quite destructive.

Answer 7

I went to the New York School of Dog Grooming and there were several kept in appartment this school is in Manhattan in teh city about 5 blockes from teh Empire State Building.
Teh dog can be trained for appartment life and be trained for teh noise.

Answer 8

Only if you were going to walk it all the time.
They are hipper!
I don't think so though because they bark a whole heck of a lot and it would bug your extreamly close neighbours

Answer 9

I doubt it, they are hyper dogs that need activity, but you may get lucky if you take him to a trainer

Answer 10

They may howl due to lonliness. Other then that, their good pets!