when I was a kid, my dad brought home a little female beagle. She was about a year old. He had dis some work for a farmer and that was his payment I think. She would run rabbits and also flush grouse. You had to retrieve it as she wanted no part of that, but she was a good hunter and a great family pet. I think my dad even used her once or twice to track wounded deer. I never got to go on those escapades being too young,but remember him and his hunting buddys taking her out one evening during deer season with a leash and lanterns.