Our philosophy for training our puppies is very simple. We expose our puppies to as much of everything as we can imagine. It isn't the "super puppy" method the military uses but we utilize the peak periods of neurological development to expose our puppies to all sorts of different challenges. Beagles must run in a pack! In order to find an effective group of running hounds one must employ some trial and error. If you run hounds that do not click the result of your hunts could be madness, whereas the owner we uneedily rid himself of dog's that may otherwise perform with a different group of dogs. Finding your pack is the key to success. There are several different pack options for trialing..Which I will not go into great detail at this time (I run in the NKC Progressive Pack ) The basis for all rabbit hunting hounds is the line. The line is referred to as the path which the rabbit actually ran. These terms I will discuss more in depth in my daily blogs, but for now know that a rabbit hound must have some sense of the line and the ability to stay on the line of the rabbit. The nose is another must for a great hunting hound. The slang terms thrown around about a hound's nose are too numerous to name. But in the course of journeying through buying a Beagle one will hear the term "Cold Nosed" most often as a term a dispair in ones hound. A cold nosed Beagle is one that picks up on small patches of sent too old to make a run at the rabbit. The reason this is frowned upon by hunters and trialers alike, is because these dogs waste ample amount of time on dead end tracks. So my training technique is based on exposure. We don't just want dogs that can run a line. We at Yellow Roses Kennel train the dog to be smarter. Please keep up with my daily training blog to learn the secrets to our success.

Sarting Pen is open for business track the progress of my trial dogs and the progress of dogs that I am training. This is a living journal to the training that takes place in our 5 acre pen and our over 1000 acres of rabbit country.