My New Baby Brother has Arrived!

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Mum and dad told me that I’d be getting a baby brother soon and that I was to look after him and play nicely.

Well, today at the crack of dawn a BIG box came from Auntie Kathleen and Uncle Neil and it had MY name on it! What else can it be – it must be my little brother Biggles! Yay! :)

Mum made me take it out onto the deck to open it. It was REALLY exciting.

It took me ages to open it – Biggles was all snuggled up in a little bed inside the box.

Then he got out of bed and barked. You’ve never heard such a weird sounding noise. I wasn’t frightened. I just stayed back in case he was scared of me. I barked at him a bit to make him feel welcome and some of the other dogs that live near me joined in. I think Biggles was pleased because he made that funny noise and gave me a treat.

Thank you Autie Kathleen, Uncle Neil and all my buddies at Mochuisle Beagles for the lovely present!!!

Love Beanie
xx

Beach Bum Beagle #2

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We went back to Irvine Beach this morning. The BBC Weather tide tables served us well and we had a fair amount of beach to walk on, decent weather and, most importantly, some great chums for Beanie to play with.

Best of all was Bailey – pictured above – a Boxer pup around about the same age as Beanie. They hit it off straight away, playing chase both on the beach and in the water. While rummaging around just offshore, treasure hunter Bailey made a superb find – a battered milk container. The milk inside wasn’t just “off”, it was mature cheese – a true delicacy, and worthy of further chasing.

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For me though, there was one really memorable moment on the walk. It happened when we met Rory, a gorgeous fun-loving retriever:

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Rory was clearly very at home in the sea, and with a little coaxing Beanie followed him in and actually swam!

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The tennis ball that was used for the coaxing (just visible in the above picture) was lost of course. It turns out that although Rory is a Retriever, he doesn’t. Retrieve that is. And as for Beanie, well it’s a small miracle any time we come back from a walk with an intact tennis ball.

Other points to note from this walk:

  1. Ben. He was great chum too, and he had a tennis ball that squeaks.DSC01583
  2. Seaweed is damn tasty!DSC01479
  3. Beagles can fly:FlyingBeagle

Finally here’s a slideshow of more shots from the beach.

More Racing and Beanie’s Celebrity Status

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In my last post about road racing I mentioned that we’d been in touch with Paul Worthy Gardner in the States in connection with some 5k and 10k races that he’s been organising for dogs and their people for the past few years. He’s planning races in London and Scotland next year.

He’s sent us a photo of the start of their Norwich race…

 The start of the Dog Run Dog race in Norwich, VT, USA

…and also a YouTube video of a TV interview he appeared in over in America where he talked about the DogRunDog races. Here’s the clip – wind forward to 7 minutes and listen for about 20 seconds…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V24cUI1JrI

Yep, that’s OUR Beanie he’s talking about! Beanie’s been on American TV….well, sort of. :)

Paul’s planning a trip over in the Autumn, and he’s looking for ideas for a venue for the Scottish race.