“The best way to judge beagles is to watch them running rabbits. When you see what you like, buy from that bloodline. I like a long chase that ends in a dead rabbit, so I like dogs that have good ...

Rabbits and beagles are one such pairing. You can hunt rabbits without dogs. Many hunters do. But it's difficult to hunt them as well and not half as much fun.

In my younger years, I was fortunate to have two different beagles that would circle rabbits and pheasants for me. But it’s been more than a decade since I owned one of these gentle hounds.

Pennsylvania’s statewide rabbit season begins Saturday, and beagles will be set loose in the fields again to do what they were born to do. The daily limit for hunters will be four cottontails.

Michelle Gabel/The Post-StandardAaron Luther, 6, of Natural Bridge, plays in the snow as his father, Eric Luther, and Keith Wiggins, of Liverpool, hunt rabbits Sun´day at Sackets Harbor.

GOODHUE COUNTY, Minn. — The circle of life for a hunted cottontail rabbit goes something like this: Rabbit emerges from hiding. Beagle sees rabbit or picks up scent and alerts hunter. Baying … ...

Zach asked as we listened to the baying of the beagles. "The dogs are chasing the rabbit back to us," I replied. "Whenever a rabbit gets frightened, it takes off running to get away.

Social media, it seems, is the new country store for this breed of beagle fan. For something as niche as rabbit hunting—and swamp rabbits at that—a Benson’s Kennels post might rack up 1,000 ...

The weather people, who predicted that we would have an ice storm over the past weekend, were predicting a snow later in the week. I spent a whole afternoon getting ...

Earlier this year, the American Kennel Club, or AKC, released its list of the 10 Most Popular Dogs in America for 2014. The lowly little beagle, a dog I dearly love, was in fifth place.