Today has been a looking back day….
The beagle girls (Macy and Dulce) and I made a trip to the beagle house. I've been working on Mildred's website at http://www.tesorosbeagles.com and I went there to see if there were some missing pages on her computer (they weren't there).
Dulce visited with her mom. Okay, they sniffed each other and nobody flashed teeth. Always a good thing.
On the way there, an internet friend mentioned she was at Shelburne Museum which reminded me of Marcie – Bettner's Byte of Magic. Marcie was born at Shelburne Farms and owned by the groundskeeper's family.
An internet friend noticed that one of Deenie's beagle puppies looked exactly like my Peppermint Patty. We hooked up and made arrangements to ship Marcie to me. Thankfully, while Marcie was the smallest puppy in the litter, she ended up being a very LARGE 15" beagle. If she was the slightest overweight, she would go over the wicket.
Patty was very special, and one of my 12" – 13" beagles. Both were blue tick beagles. Mostly black, with white and brown ticking, resembling blue tick beagles. Patty was the number one obedience beagle in the country, and got me into police dog training. I don't think anyone could have taken two almost identical beagles that perfect.
Marcie's litter was a "magical" litter as Deenie was the daughter of an east coast dog fancier and had purchased two very well bred beagles for her boys to hunt with. They had keep the two beagle apart, put them together a few times to breed, and no puppies so they gave up, and let them live together in a run. One day Deenie went out and Marcie's mom was great with puppies. Thus the litter appeared magically, I think she was 6 or 7 at the time. Plus there were a large number of puppies.
Marcie was a very good beagle, having the uncanny ability to read the agility cones. Ask anyone around here. (Okay, the true secret is that she didn't appear to watch me, but would catch the tinest movement, and I would often spot the correct cone at the last minute, saving many an almost off course. But it's more fun to believe that she was truly magical and could read cones. We had one club that used flat plaques instead of cones and I would always tease them that Marcie couldn't read their numbers and that we would have to required them to get cones.
See Patty was perfect at obedience, Marcie perfect at agility. Too bad they didn't have a perfect handler.
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