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A Beagle With Frosting on His Paws Looks Up With Innocent Eyes

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Frosting is smeared across the front paws of a tricolor Beagle, and he is looking up with big, innocent brown eyes. Little white dollops of cream cling to his toes and dot the floor around him. Behind him, a mixing bowl streaked with frosting sits on the counter beside a whisk, a blue plaid towel, and a scattering of crumbs.

A bowl of apples and a lemon sit at the end of the counter, with a pair of glasses near the edge, and warm sunlight pours across the kitchen. We'll call him Sprinkles. His ears hang forward, his tail seems ready to wag, and his face says he was only checking on the cake.

Beagles have a famously powerful nose and an appetite to match, which means anything sweet within reach is a target. Frosting is a problem: it's mostly sugar and fat, it can upset a dog's stomach, and some frostings contain chocolate or the sweetener xylitol, which is very dangerous to dogs. If he licked a lot of frosting, check the ingredients and call your vet or a pet poison hotline. Keep baking supplies on the back of the counter, and use a gate to keep dogs out of the kitchen while you bake. Beagles are friendly, curious, and pack-oriented, and they do best with exercise, scent games, and training with small, healthy treats.

Sprinkles sits quietly with his sticky paws, a sweet-faced dog who says the cake was already like that.

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