Savage beagles terrorize East End (Long Island)

January 31, 2010

Charlie Brown, watch your back -- a plague of vicious wild beagles has struck Long Island!

These floppy-eared terrors are no lovable Snoopys -- they're abandoned hunting dogs that live in packs and have gone from humble pets to hounds from hell.

Mattituck resident Dot Faszczewski came face to face with the canine menace two weeks ago, when she was set upon by a group of crazed, hungry beagles as she walked her pet dogs near her parents' Orient Point home.

She said it was like a scene from a werewolf movie.

"They were barking so ferociously that I thought they were going to attack my dogs," she said of the Jan. 16 scare.

Her dogs -- who are much bigger than be agles -- were too scared to even bark back.

"I grabbed the two dogs and ran inside," she said. "I just closed the door when they jumped at the door, and they broke that aluminum portion underneath."

The attack happened in a flash. It was only when the 61-year-old dog lover was safely inside that she made the shocking realization her howling attackers weren't coyotes or Rottweilers, but were three frothing, short-legged, brown-and-white beagles.

"I thought 'Why would they be so ferocious?' The bark that they were barking, like they really wanted to eat me up!" she told The Post.

They "were probably cold, hungry and desperate," she said.

The angry beagles that attacked Faszczewski are part of a huge community of feral beagles that roams the woods and fields of eastern Long Island after being abandoned by hunters who used them to track down rabbits.



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I love beagles. I had one up untill last year. They can be quite a handful even when trained so a Beagle left to its own devices is probably one hell of a nasty bugger for sure.