welcome to beagle world!Get yourself a crate,this will protect her from anything that she is likely to chew and will also help with your house training,she is unlikely to dirty her bed,take her outside for at least 10 mins everyhour in the day and when she wees make a massive fuss and reward her and use a key word like wee wee,and eventually she may wee on command,Set your alarm to get up in the night and take her outside say go wee wee and when she does take her straight back to the crate so she knows it is still bed time.

As for the chewing,my beagle ate and destroyed anything he could get his paws on,keep everything out of reach,give rawhide chews and play games to keep the boredom away 5 mins training a couple of times a day will wear her out mentally.pop her into the crate at regular intervals to help her cope with you not being around and this should reduce any seperation anxiety.Its also a good time out place when she gets overtired and does the zoomies!
I am not even gonna comment on the pop and rubbing her nose in it!
Beagles respond well to rewards,and treats,build up a good trust with her and it will make training easier for you

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Go buy yourself a couple of books on training puppies (e.g., gwen bailey) - your 'methods' are drastically out of date. Trying desperately not to be rude to you, but what do you think you're teaching a different species 'popping' them or rubbing poo in their face? Apart from not to trust or like you?

Good luck to your puppy

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I agree with everything people are saying! Every puppy is different when it comes to toilet training and chewing but it seems the beagles need quite alot of work on that one.

My whippet is 16 weeks and is only having the odd accident and rarely chews/destroys anything. We crate trained him, basically took him out side every time he ate, slept or played and then every 30-45 mins inbetween that at the beginning. Through the night we set the alarm every couple of hours at first and took him out for the loo, saying go toilet and then praising when he did. I would say he has been pretty easy to train with this technique.

In contrast with Lola where i was still Lola proofing the house when she was over 2 years old (she wasnt crate trained at the beginning). If i go upstairs and leave her roaming she will still shread paper up if i left it out on the floor. My x partners mum rubbed her nose in it a few times with the toilet training as well which i went absolutely off my head about and this made things worse with her toileting! Defo praise and being proactive taking pup out is the way forward. Hard work at the beginning but it pays off so quickly its worth it!

Hope things calm down and you get into a bit of a routine....Crate/puppy pen and taking them out regularly is the way to go!

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Walter - Whippet
Lola- American cocker x Jack Russell
Ruby-Exotic Long hair
Pepper- Persian

i havent got a begal but i do have a boxer x lab and hes 16 weeks. 20-30 mins outside playing is nothing to them ive watched for the signes of sniffing in a hurry ect and when he starts i picked him up and took him outside with the words wee wee time after hes done it ive given realy big hugs ect then said poo time if he dose one more hugs ect if not then you watch again. when we go bed i get up every 2 hours and take him down stairs and into the garden even if hes all sleepy and floppy and told him wee wee time 100% he dose at least a wee. now 4 weeks on hes pritty much house trained and will pop downstairs. when i hear him moving about i get up and eather follow him or he follows me. puppys ars like toddlers into everything and its your responsibility to keep your watch over them. it dose get better its just some breeds take longer. maybe when she starts doing something you dont want her to do get her attention onto a toy a pully ect and tell her a weeing/pooing word as you take her outside. when she dose something give her lots of cuddles and maybe a little treat.

So she's 10 weeks old? You've had her a month. Did you get her too early?

Did you research the breed? it sounds like normal puppy behaviour but if you are 'popping' her and 'rubbing her nose in it' then personally I think you are better off getting one of these



If you are leaving money, papers, cords or as you say anything she gets hold of then you are obviously making it too easy for her to do so.

Buster chewed stuff but we never ever reprimanded him for it... if it was at easy reach then it was our fault.

We used a tether in the early days and distracted him from objects such as wires. Toilet training we let him out regular and rewarded the good behaviour with a clicker. If he had an accident we blamed ourselves for not being attentive enough.

When i look at our latest foster girly I get so angry with posts like this. The poor girl was never taught where to toilet... at the age of 4 she will go anywhere. Such a shame when by 12 weeks buster was 99.9% perfect in that department.

I don't know any beagles in these parts, but I read they are not the easiest of breeds to train.

Set the house rules then repeat them in a calm manner every time.

Clean the area where she have been going in the house with distilled vinegar, it looses the smell and reduces her desire to repeat scent mark the same place.

Allocate the target poo place, and mark that with a small dab on misc dog poo that I'm sure you can find elsewhere.

Your dog will want to cover that other dog's smell with her own, maybe start this on newspaper outside? But what ever you do set one rule and apply it every day.

Creating a diary to monitor feeding and pooing times will help you plan when the next one is due. The process of walking will encourage her lower intestines to produce stool. So stay mobile till she has been.


The nose thing - not a training technique that works I'm afraid, it's an old wives tale.