Beagles are classy animals, everyone should have one.
We love our beagle to pieces. He was kept in a pen with other beagles for the first year of his life. He kept digging out and coming 2 1/2 miles to our house. We became so attached to him that the guy who owned him gave him to us. He is still an outdoor dog, since we are both allergic, but he has his own heated and cooled cedar house with a big porch. He has a heated bed in both his house and in his tent bed on the front porch. He also likes the gazebo where his huge trunk of toys is kept.
He loves being free and he has the run of our farm and all the squirrels and rabbits a hound could ever chase. I don’t know how we ever did without him.