My Father-in-law has been a Beagler for a LOT of years. He’s in his 80’s now and he and many of his lifelong friends still travel the Southeast during field trial season with their beagles in tow. They are a rare bunch of gentlemen.
Years ago, they organized The Lookout Beagle Club where they go to run their beagles and hold sanctioned field trails. Once a year, they host the Southern Federation Beagle Trials. It’s a big deal, with up to a thousand beagles, owners and handlers from all over the country, their RV’s, and seven days or so of non-stop beagling. I call it “Beagle Mania”.
For beaglers to go beagling with any hope of successfully judging the bunny tracking prowess of their dogs, there must exist bunnies. Lookout Beagle club is a bunny paradise.
If I were a bunny, I’d hop the first outbound freight to Rock Spring Georgia, find the Lookout Beagle Club, and set up housekeeping.
I could live with the occasional beagle tailing me around the premises. After all, his only goal is to track my scent; not to catch and shake my ass until I squeal my last breath.
My food, water, and 100 acres of the best ground cover nature has to offer, would all be provided free of charge. Did I mention that I and a few of my buds would be enclosed in this 100 acre paradise with a wide variety of little female bunnies as well?
Which brings me to the accommodations for the 700-1000 beagles that show up for the Southern Federation Field Trial each year.
Most of the beagles, male and female, stay in the deluxe, above ground suites comprised of four very long rows of wooden kennels raised about waist high, for easy feeding by the handlers.
But, there is a very special class of attendees that have their own elite compound of suites. They are known as the “Hot Bitches”.
These are the female beagles who happen to be in heat when they arrive for the trials. They reside in the ten or so ground level suites, totally enclosed by a chain link fence.
The “Hot Bitches” are easy to find due to the rather promiscuous looking sign one of the club members attached to their enclosure. With this tortuous distraction fully populated, no red blooded American male beagle is going to give a damn about tracking the scent of a bunny.
Thus, I theorize that female beagles tend to fair better in the field trial standings. If you decide to become a Beagler, keep that in mind.
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