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The St. Hubert Hound is one of the earliest known ancestors of the beagle.
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Another of the Ancestors of the beagle was the pocket beagle. They looked similar to beagles, but they were small enough to fit in a pocket.
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The North Country Beagle is one of the beagles predecessors. It became extinct in the 1800's
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The modern beagle was bred and domesticated in 1830 in Great Britain.
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Beagles were bred in this time, and Reverend Philip Honeywood of Great Britain started a program to breed beagles.
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Beagles were imported from Great Britain to the U.S. in 1840. They began to breed them more, and they started to look like the modern beagles.
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Beagles were being used to hunt rabbits and other animals.
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The AKC accepted the beagle as an official breed in 1885
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The National Beagle Club was founded in 1887
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A comic strip showed a beagle named Snoopy. Snoopy is one of the most well-known comics/cartoons of all time.
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A president named Lyndon Johnson had 2 beagles during his presidency.
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Sadly, beagles are used to test different products. Animal testing in beagles reached its peak in 1979, but it still occurs
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Beagles are used at airports to check if there are any dangerous items in luggage. These beagles are called the Beagle Brigade
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Beagles are used as therapy dogs, and this started around 1989.
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The beagle was ranked 5th in 2014 in dog popularity according to the AKC.
