I spent many youthful, wonderful days trailing Beagle packs and blissful nights running after Coonhounds.
Hounds are made to function autonomously and that makes them less “biddable” than breeds created to look to their people for direction.
They’re special that way and I love that about them.
:)
When I was a military dependent living on a small Naval Communications Station near Andrews AFB as a 14 year old, there was a really cute girl (She was out of my league and age range, but she had nearly every guy following her around)
Her father was either a Chief or a Warrant Officer (I can’t remember which) and he raised beagles. He kept several dozen of them in a fenced in enclosure that went around a water tower on the base, and she had to go down each day with buckets of dog chow to feed them.
I just wanted to find a way to go with her, so I offered to carry the buckets of dog chow the several hundred yards from her house...adolescent boys are really so easily manipulated...:) Of course, being no fool, she readily agreed with a flirtatious smile at this young, gorky guy with BCD (Birth Control Device) black plastic glasses!
What I remember most is, nearly as soon as we began walking down there, there was no way they could have seen us coming, but they began baying, howling, and yodeling wildly in an insane chorus! It was incredible!
As I think of it now, I wonder if they somehow smelled the dog chow, or if they heard the screen door...I don’t know, but you could hear it all over the base!