17/02/2026
This one wasn't always this chill 😁
At 11 months old, when I adopted her, she drove me absolutely INSANE. 🤯
😵💫 She was bouncing off the walls,
😵💫 Grabbing anything she could chew,
😵💫 And bothering poor Daisy so much Daisy nearly lost her voice shouting at her.
Pepper hadn’t yet learned that the strange wired feeling in her brain 🧠
...caused by a full day of stimulation and natural evening hormones...
..actually meant she just needed to lie down and sleep!
Like many beagle pups and adolescents, she had discovered her own way of switching off…
🫨 ZOOMIES 🫨
And those zoomies quickly turned into stealing things, ankle nipping, barking, and general evening chaos.
If I had left her to it, this routine would have carried on until late every night.
Many people are told that dogs will simply go to sleep when they are tired, but pack-driven breeds often need to be shown how to settle.
Beagles learn through watching, copying, and gentle direction, just as they would within their natural pack.
Once we showed Pepper how evenings were meant to feel, everything changed.
In tomorrow's online evening training, I’ll show you how to look at:
🐶 your beagle’s day to make sure it isn't contributing to the evening chaos.
🐶 reduce evening overstimulation.
🐶 teach them how to switch from...
“let’s go crazy” to “let’s lie down and relax.”
Comment ZOOMIE below if you’d like the details.