Everything You Need to Know About Beagles

8. Training your beagle

Training a beagle is an exercise in patience. They're intelligent, but also single-minded, determined, and easily bored. Although their food orientation means they respond well to treat-based training, they're still not easy to train. They need consistent and persistent training to become well-trained, and may always be difficult to recall as they're so easily distracted by scents. Beagles are also notorious for being hard to housebreak, so new owners should be prepared to pick up messes for up to a year.