Beagles
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
While the average dog lives to please you, its keeper (sometimes mistakenly called "owner"), Beagles care about only one thing: chasing smells. Any smells, but especially smells that lead to food, which they eat. Or rabbits, which they don't. Or other dogs butts, which they sniff.
If you live in a small apartment (flat, room, cardboard box) don't get a Beagle. Get a Cocker Spaniel. Or a Goldfish. Or an African Violet.
If you need affection, get a Golden Retriever. Not a Beagle.
Despite their single-minded devotion to smells, Beagles inspire greater affection from humans than perhaps any other living creature.
Strangely, they also inspire greater medical experimentation.