Well, I personally have had bad experiences adopting.
and as for my dog running away, we just don’t tie our dogs up out here unless they are causing problems with the neighbors. We do lock her up when she is in heat but we were just trying to cover all the bases. My beagle had always stayed in the yard since we had found her and then just one day up and left. She had a good home with the neighbors so its no big deal.
We may get her spayed but idk yet. It will be a family decision.
With all dogs, it’s important to match up the right dog for the right person/family. In other words, it’s not a good match to put a high-energy herding breed with a family who has 3 kids under the age of 5. That is a recipe for the kids getting bitten when the dog tries to herd them, and the dog will end up chained in the yard or taken to the shelter.
Too often people choose dogs based on how they look, rather than on their breed characteristics and the individual dog’s personality, temperament, energy level, etc. I have Ridgebacks, but the dog I kept out of the litter has been a total couch potato from day-one. Her sister took 4 years to mellow out. Yet they both are Ridgebacks to the core. So it was important to screen the potential puppy families to make sure they were suited to the breed, and then match the individual families with the individual puppies based on the lifestyle and energy levels in each of the households.
People simply can’t choose a breed of dog based on how it looks. You have to know yourself first, then you have to know the different breed Group characteristics, then you have to know the individual Breed characteristics, then you have to match the right dog within that breed to the right person/family. It’s not an impulse buy, and it’s not something where you walk the aisles at the local shelter and just pick one out because it’s cute. You have to be an educated shopper... You’re going to spend alot of money, time, and emotions on a dog for 10-16 years, so it needs to be a well thought-out adoption/purchase.
People spend far more time buying a car than they do obtaining a dog. Yet people usually have the dog longer than they have the car. And people don’t usually cry when the car dies.
I recommend you purchase a crate for your dog. I never recommend tying up a dog. Crates are great for dogs if used properly.
And out in the country, Coyotes can certainly breed with domestic dogs (Coy-dogs), so if you have Coyotes out there, do be careful. For that matter, your dogs are small, and small dogs are dinner for Coyotes, so I hope you don’t have them in your area, but you would obviously know about that already if you had them.
Your Beagle is a Hound. Hounds weren’t bred to guard the homestead, they were bred to hunt, so they tend to roam. That’s how you found her, right? Thus, Hounds need to be more consistently monitored. I’m glad she has a good home. But I hate to think she could still be roaming and could be hit by a car next time.