Beaglier Dog Breed

Below are details and specs for the Beaglier dog breed.

The Beaglier tends to be a small- to medium-sized dog which stands 12-16 inches tall and weighs 10-25 pounds.

Your Beaglier will love to be around you, your family and people almost all the time! They love kids, usually welcome strangers and are good with most other pets. (Smaller pets and other animals may trigger their hunting instincts, however, so they should be watched around them.)

When it comes to maintenance, Beagliers are moderate in their requirements. They need daily walks, very frequent brushing and a fair amount of care. A thorough brushing every day is a great help to keeping her coat clean and your house relatively free of hair, and her ears and teeth need to be inspected often so as to make sure they remain clean and disease-free.

The Beaglier is one of the relatively new hybrids; due to this, there is very little history. There is some, however: the Beaglier is said to have originated in Australia in the 1990s. Knowing the histories of the parent breeds — the Beagle and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel — will help you to understand your Beaglier.

The Beagle is well-known for possessing an extraordinary sense of smell, and by these olfactory talents (and floppy ears), they have been traced back to their basic beginnings in the 5th century in ancient Greece. In the 11th century, WIlliam the Conqueror took the Talbot Hound to England and it was there that he may have bred the dog with a Greyhound so as to produce a faster dog that retained the Talbot's sharp sense of smell, and that the result was the Southern Hound — which is believed to be the direct ancestor of the Beagle. Several centuries later, in 1830, Great Britain's Reverend Phillip Honeywood was credited for producing the groundwork for the modern-day Beagle. The Beagle was one of the first breeds to be recognized by the American Kennel Club (AKC), and was done so in 1885.

The predecessor of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel being a Toy Spaniel, a dog that was recorded as far back as the 16th century in paintings by Titian. (There are also accounts that claim the Toy Spaniels were known in the 11th century as hunting dogs.) The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is named in part after a 17th century English king, Charles I, who took the throne in 1625. Before his death, the king's love for the (Cavalier) King Charles Spaniel was named as such by the very subjects who would eventually mistrust him. The subsequent monarch, King Charles II, was also fond of the dogs and was never without a few from his pack; they followed him everywhere. His love for the breed was such that he authored a decree allowing the King Charles Spaniel to go anywhere, a decree that remains observed in England to this day. As Charles II was known as the "Cavalier King," so too did the prefix become part of the breed's name: Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel was recognized by the AKC in 1995.

The Beaglier is a hybrid which will inherit characteristics from both parent breeds. As not all Beagliers will get the same traits, some will have more have more Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in them and others will have more Beagle.

The coat may be short and soft (like the Beagle) or silky and longer (like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel). In either case, he will be a small- or medium-sized dog with a short, rounded muzzle and big eyes. If he has a preponderance of Beagle, the ears may be floppy and somewhat bare-looking; if there is more Cavalier present, the ears will still be somewhat long and floppy but will be covered with long, silky hair.

Beagliers are extremely friendly, able to understand people to an extent, and are very fond of their families. They especially love being around people and are crowd pleasers. Despite all these wonderful qualities, they can be difficult to train and do not respond well to punishment-based training; they require firm and persistent positive-technique methods.

Although cross-breeding usually reduces the chance for health problems, the Beaglier is one of the cross-breeds that tends to have more problems than most designer dogs. They are at risk of having or contracting epilepsy, eye problems, thyroid ailments, dwarfism, joint problems and ear infections, among other things.