Today Biggles’ integer age went from zero to one. That’s right, the world has been 100% more Biggly for a whole year.

Previously we’d been for a trip to  Wizard of Paws to do some birthday shopping. It’s one of the few pet shops near us that actually allows pets inside to browse, and straight away we’d found something that made both their eyes light up:

Yep those are genuine pig snouts. If you find that picture pretty revolting, you’re gonna love the reverse view:

Needless to say on Birthday morning Biggles quickly located the package that contained his pig snout and tore it open..

There’s no shortage of interesting packages, and even an edible rawhide card…

…but after the briefest of sniffs his nose knows where the pig’s nose is

There was as you can imagine a bit of a delay before he got round to checking out his other prezzies, and predictably the most expensive one – a big blue “boomer ball” – received the least attention.

The wrapping paper went down a storm though..

..as did his new tug rope:

That was followed by a bit of play with his big sister, who duly gave him her gift of birthday bumps.

Then of course there was a bit of birthday cake (sardine flavored in this case):

That still left one more surprise for the evening:

The one on the right is mine. I love my boy, but he ain’t drinking my Stella!

He may be old enough for doggie beer, but he only got a brief taste of it. As a teenaged male Beagle he’s already stroppy enough without the aid of booze, and anyway if he wakes up with a hangover he can always try the traditional cure (hair of the dog)!

Finally, a short video of some of the other ‘firsts’ in Biggly boy’s life:

The next 5k road race that allows dogs to enter is the Big Fun Run in Bellahouston Park on Sunday 4th October. I entered this with Beanie last year. This year we plan to run with a team from the Glasgow Dog Training club (as we did last time when we ran the Glasgow East 5k). Unfortunately, our team consists of only Paul & Biggles, me and Beanie and Susan and Cuillen.

In an attempt to drum up interest from some fellow club members we decided to create a promotional video. Between us we’ve got a few video clips and lots of nice photos of past races but we really needed a bit more footage of the actual running. So we met up in the park for a photoshoot.

I’ll put the promotional video together over the weekend. Anyone other Glasgow Dog Training Club members fancy joining us in the next race?

Yesterday was a long day. It was well after midnight before I got to bed and it was lovely to finally crawl under the covers and snuggle down, ready to drift off into a deep sleep the moment my head hit the pillow. But wait a minute….. What’s that…..? Yuk…it’s wet in here!!!

Somebody had crawled under the duvet and peed my bed!!!!!!

I looked over at Beanie and Biggles crates. They were sleeping peacefully with little innocent faces. It couldn’t possibly have been them.

I suspect Paul.