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Yesterday she discovered she can bark, though doesn’t do it often and seems surprised that sound can come out of her body.

She doesn’t like thunder and didn’t sleep well during the severe storms passing through our area lately.

Since she’s too young and small to be out in public, I’ve been taking her on leashed walks around the mowed acreage. She is great at following commands and prances as she walks.

Btw, Bite Force Durable Plush dog toys are great for chewers. She’s been toting around Snoopy all morning and has chewed his ears for a long time with zero damage. They crinkle and have a squeak so they hold a dog’s interest, and come in a variety of characters.

Not to be gross - but she is organized about where she poops. Is that a Beagle trait? Millie did it as well. She’ll poop directly across from her last pile, which makes pooper-scoopering a breeze at the end of the day.

I've had Birdie about a week. I work from home, and keep her in a kennel with food and water, cuddle toys, and teethers while I'm working. There are towels laid down on the kennel tray in case she has an accident. She tries to break through the mesh of her playpen, so until she gets older and more trustworthy, she's got to be in a kennel while I'm working. I do take her out to go to the bathroom, and play with her on my breaks so she's not cooped up the whole day.

Even play for a short amount of time seems to wear her down, she seems sleepy in daylight hours.

I have a kennel in my bedroom with a bed, towels laid down on the tray, cuddle toys, and teethers. I take away food and water about 2-2.5 hours before bed, to let it work through her system by the time she has her last bathroom break before we sleep.

It doesn't matter how much I play with her before bed, she is wound up and is extremely feisty when I put her in the bedroom kennel. She digs at the towels, digs at the bed, is looking for escape routes, is curious about the wall outlet, she hops around like a frog, barks at me, refuses to stay in bed when I place or try to keep her there. This goes on for at least 30 minutes every night.

Sometimes she wakes me up between 12:30am-1:30am, sometimes she's standing up looking at me, sometimes she's chewing on her teethers, sometimes she's fully awake and feisty again. If I tell her "bed", sometimes she goes there immediately and curls up to go to sleep. If she keeps looking at me, I take her outside for a potty break. There haven't been accidents overnight.

How do I reverse this so Birdie is sleepy at night? I can manage her being feisty during the day, when she gets a little older I'll let her roam freely in the room I'm in, but for now she tries to chew on cords and tries to dart behind the couch despite me putting up obstacles.

ETA: I got her last Wednesday. I took off work last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, was home with her the entire weekend, took off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of this week even though I already work from home full time. It doesn't matter what Birdie's day is like, or how much she's out of her kennel and activity and human interaction she has, she still behaves like this every single night since I got her. Monday I left the house to run errands for 2 hours and she had no resistance to being in her kennel, she slept soundly and didn't even cry. At night when it's time to sleep, if this were a movie or fictional book, this is where she turns into a werewolf and completely misbehaves. Completely out of character to how she is in daylight hours.

Hi. I'm the one who posted my grief and frustrations over losing my first Beagle, Millie, to cancer as she neared 6 years old earlier this year. I received tremendous support here, which I still am grateful for and think about the kind words shared with me. 🙏🏻

I got Birdie a week ago today to help with my grief. She's somewhat timid still. Sometimes she wails like a banshee or ghoul when I leave the room, but I completely left the house yesterday and I saw on the pet camera she didn't cry or tear up her kennel, she slept and occasionally sat up to listen to someone driving by.

She's not a terrific eater, but I don't think it's a case of her not liking the dog food. Her Vet said she feels insecure because she probably ate with her littermates. I got her a huge stuffed Lambchop I sit by her at mealtime, which has helped. She does great at handling business outside quickly, but laced shoes are a major distraction so I wear rain boots she can't attack. She doesn't like the leash removed from her mouth if she's in one of those cranky teething moods, she growls persistently so my clever friend nicknamed her "Old Biddy".

She likes belly rubs. She's slowly starting to trust and brings toys to me instead of looking at me from across the room skeptically.

...are email pen pals while he's in prison. She was on Andy Cohen Live on SiriusXM this morning; she said she contacted him to put but on his email list. They regularly correspond and dissect each episode of McBee Dynasty. She offered to do an interview with him when he gets out of prison, he accepted.

I can already hear it...he'll deny everything, it was a big misunderstanding, he made a mistake with crop paperwork and paid the consequences, he "paid his dues to society" 🙄

She's a girl.

I love "old lady" names. I also love nature, the Fall season, wildlife.

I am unsure how much her coloring will change.

I thought of:

Agnes (does it roll off the tongue well?)

Birdie (idk, is it "old lady" enough?)

Ethel

Fern (what would the middle name be?)

June or Junie (since we were both born in June but again, I need a middle name)

Myrtle (my last dog was Millie, people may mix those names up)

I need to OMIT: Bonnie, Dorothy, Ruthie, Millie/Mildred, Penny as those were previous dogs' names or humans I know.

I'm open to receiving suggestions.

Thank you so much! 🙂

Thank you for the kind words and support when I shared Millie’s story and my grief struggle a few days ago. Millie passed over 4 months ago and I’m getting a pup soon to help with my grief.

I’m caught between:

Agnes

Birdie

Fern

Frances

Myrtle (I’m concerned people will mistakenly call her Millie)

Odessa

Your input is appreciated. (She's a girl)

This is Millie. She passed away in March 2026, she was 6 weeks away from turning 6 years old. This photo was taken in July 2025.

All of her life, she needed to eat about every 6 hours or she would vomit up foamy bile like her stomach was too empty. I asked multiple veterinarians for their opinion, none said it was serious and they brushed it off. I took her daily allotment of food and split it up into 4 feedings, which means I fed her at 4am, 10am, 4pm, close to 10pm. Because her food schedule was consistent, her bathroom habits were too.

She had neurological incidents starting when she was 4 years old. Seizure-like body movements, but she was making eye contact with me so multiple veterinarians did not classify them as seizures because she was coherent and they were isolated incidents. She didn't go to the bathroom on herself or have accidents, but occasionally she would vomit when one of these seizure-like incidents were over. After a few minutes, she acted like nothing happened. These occurred about every 4 months. I took the veterinarians' advice, I kept a journal of activity. Did something happen to cause her stress? Were there visitors that day? Did she eat something she shouldn't have? No to all of those things, these incidents were deemed idiopathic - cause unknown.

August 2025, she had a "real" seizure in the middle of the night. Incoherent, body seizing, vomit, poop, pee, she was clenching the wire wall of her kennel with her back teeth. Her regular veterinarian put her on Gabapentin. She was on it for 7 months without any seizure/neurological incidents after that. On the pill bottles, on the pill information paperwork, it's in CAPS LOCK "Will cause drowsiness". She didn't seem sleepier than normal to me, and her personality seemed unaffected, thankfully.

Over the winter, (we live in the Midwest), when it was unseasonably warm, I would take her for walks like we do the rest of the year in good weather. She seemed to be moving slower but who isn't tired in the winter? Days are usually overcast and gray, I was struggling with fatigue and motivation myself. Other times she seemed completely normal. I was scared to mention to her regular vet, maybe the dosage is too strong, maybe we should cut back a little because she seems drowsy sometimes? But I was scared changing the dosage would make her have a seizure, (because their body temperature raising very high after a seizure is what's dangerous, not the seizure itself) and possibly cause brain damage and I would never forgive myself if I caused something to hurt her.

She had a Distemper booster shot in February 2026 and a checkup and I mentioned her being a little tired, but the veterinarian didn't think it was overly concerning. Her checkup came back normal.

On a weekend in March, she seemed reluctant to eat and was mildly lethargic, her gums looked a little pale and the whites of her eyes were very white, usually she had a little bloodshot-ness in the inner curves. I took her to the emergency veterinary hospital. The male vet on staff diagnosed her as anemic, likely caused by cancer in her bone marrow because her red blood cell count (RBC) was lower than it should be, but the rest of her blood test and organs looked great. He put her on 4 months of steroids to boost the RBC and told me to get her blood tested weekly at her regular vet, and said after the round of steroids, she may need a blood transfusion.

The next day, Millie's appetite seemed better. She did her usual routine of following the sun around the living room, taking her naps. She barked at neighbors. That afternoon, she declined and seemed weaker. I took her back to the emergency vet. They told me to lay her down on the floor, so they could pick her up to take her to the ER to work on her. Millie gave me one last look, made eye contact with me, then she turned her head to look away from me, her eyes started darting back and forth rapidly. I asked them if she was about to have a seizure, they ignored me and took her to the back, and other staff took me to a private room.

The vet tech/nurse came into my room and asked me if I wanted them to do CPR or let Mille pass peacefully, she was in critical condition. I said, "Do CPR, she's 5 years old. I won't give up on her." A few minutes later, a different vet from the day before, came into my room and told me Millie's heart stopped. She took another blood test, Millie's RBC dropped even lower. Her body did not respond to steroids. I stared at her, trying to wrap my mind around this, and the vet kept saying I did nothing wrong.

I called my regular vet later in the week and asked her to look at the tests done at the emergency hospital. She said the male vet from the first day should have put Millie on steroids and an anti-coagulant, to give Millie's RBC a boost. Her blood was already clotting too much, the steroids alone made it clot more. She didn't tell me this, but 2+2= me giving Millie only steroids was killing her faster, making her body weaker, faster. I never would have done that intentionally. She said Millie was most likely having a stroke when her eyes darted back and forth, the clots went to her major organs.

I need to know Millie knows I wasn't throwing her away like a piece of garbage when I placed her on the floor, when they wanted to take her to the ER to work on her because they didn't bring out a stretcher or cart to place her on. I need Millie to know if I had known I was going to lose her, that this was the end, I would have planned a peaceful euthanasia at the regular vet. I would have been holding her as she passed. I don't think she was ready to pass away, she was still mentally sharp. It's like she would have gotten up and continued on her normal activities if her body wasn't betraying her.

I need to know she wasn't scared when she passed. I need to know she wasn't in pain when she passed. I need her to know how much I loved her when she was alive and how much I still love her. I want her to know how much I miss her. I still cry every single day, it's been over 4 months. I still talk to her daily. I haven't moved her toys. I haven't moved her pillows or her blankets. I left them how she did, the last one to touch them. I go on walks by myself, on our old route, talking to her out loud if no neighbors are around. Every day.

I am getting another Beagle puppy soon. I don't know if it's the wrong or right thing to do, to help my grief. I feel lost without a dog. Millie made my whole world make sense. Now, nothing does. A puppy will certainly be a big distraction since they take up so much effort, time and energy. I think that will help my grief, but I don't want to forget about Millie. I think seeing a Beagle be a Beagle will naturally invoke the good memories I have of Millie, to help me get out of this rut of constantly remembering her last 36-48 hours of her life. I won't ever have the answers to what I'm struggling with most to understand.

She deserves to be remembered for who she was and her big, awesome personality, not the cruel, unexpected end. I constantly rack my brain, what symptoms did I miss? Should I have done this or that differently, would it have mattered? Millie getting sick and passing has to be my fault. There is no way something could have been wrong with her genetics, she was perfect to me.

Millie loved to burrow in blankets. She loved those blankets to touch her cheeks and forehead and peek her eyes out. She loved to tear up Bark brand squeaky toys. She loved to watch at the front door for the mailman who was always kind to her. She was not scared of the Irish Wolfhound in the neighborhood, but didn't like the German Shephard always leaving his own yard. Millie didn't care about rabbits, she enjoyed watching birds. She was so, so smart. She was trained without me teaching her anything. She knew how to sit, she understood my every single word. It's like we knew what we expected of one another without having to say it.

I love you and miss you, Millie.

I don't remember which sub I saw it in but someone said the McBee's weren't farming that long and have everything screwed up. I googled it, they've been farming almost 30 years. The website for McBee meats no longer works, at least on my brower. This website works but it focuses on the Bravo show.

The black space in the middle of the McBee cattle logo looks like Stewie's silhouette (from Family Guy) and now I can't unsee it.