Avoid The Pocket Beagle
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Back in the 1300's and 1400's the British monarchy was in full swing and there were things that they found to be very appealing to them. One favorite pet of the British monarchy back in those days was a breed of beagle known as the pocket beagle. A pocket beagle measured only 9 inches to the shoulders and back in those days it was very popular. But today the American Kennel Club only lists beagle breeds that are 13" and 15" as being the current breeds of beagles. So what happened to the pocket beagle?
Right around 1901 both the standard American and British dog breeding organizations declared the pocket beagle extinct. It is said that what is called a pocket beagle today is an unhealthy dog that is small because of physical issues that could cause you to be investing in a very unhealthy animal. Even though many of the more accepted breeder organizations have made the pocket beagle extinct many breeders still sell them today.
If you go looking for pocket beagle breeders you will find a very different story than many of the breeding associations are currently telling. There is a breed of pocket beagles being sold all over the world being referred to as old English pocket beagles and they differ just a little bit from the original pocket beagle breed. An old English pocket beagle is considered to be any beagle 12" or smaller and it almost seems as though many people are trying to get their dog to fit into a category that it may not be part of.
Breeders themselves can be held accountable if they are selling what they call pocket beagles when they know that the beagles they are selling are really unhealthy beagles with conditions such as hip dysplasia or epilepsy. While it is not out of the realm of possibility to think that there are ethical breeders out there who are breeding healthy old English pocket beagles it is your duty as a dog owner, or prospective dog owner, to be sure of what is going on before you get yourself involved.
It is very difficult to look into the eyes of what is being called a modern day pocket beagle and think that there could be any kind of controversy surrounding such a cute little animal.
Anything is possible and maybe it is not na?ve to open up your mind to the possibility that there are healthy pocket beagles being bred in the world today.
There are very specific criteria that a dog must meet when it is being classified as one breed or the other and the main breeding organizations of the world consider a dog outside their criteria to be unhealthy. Are old English pocket beagle breeders selling unhealthy dogs?
It is kind of a shame that something so cute, and so small, it at the center of such a large debate but when you have equally qualified people on both sides of the fence it is difficult to ignore a debate like this.
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