There are 2 beagles looking for a new forever home…
I don;’t have a lot of info on them, apart from what is listed below…
please contact their current owner for more info if you are interested!

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Two beagles looking for a new home, but would like to be kept together.
One male, one female.

Jack and Rucska

Both are KUSA registered, male has been neutered.
Please contact Johan at 0829053111 in Centurion.
They have moved to a townhouse complex and the space is too small for the beagles.

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Another successful hunt out in Gauteng yesterday. We met some new beagles as usual… hope they had fun!

After the very cold week we’ve had in JHB, Sunday was quite mild…!

We had a group of about 35 – 40 beagles

Just look at what a blur these speedy beagles are! (click on the picture for an enlarged version and see if you can spot your beagle!)

Here’s another one of the hounds in action… can you spot your beagle? I can see my Harry!

All the beagles seem to have had a great time… especially on the very last line, where they smelt a rabbit and most went chasing off after that scent instead of the scent we had laid for them! Needless to say, not many beagles finished the last line

Billy, who has only been to 2 or 3 hunts is doing incredibly well!! Now he must teach his big brother Ben how to follow the scent!

Billy the natural hunter!

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Harry was completely exhausted after all the running around. And he keeps rolling in the dirt – probably trying to get rid of that embarrassing England flag on his bib

Harry wasn’t the only tired beagle… look how exhausted Poppadom and Roti look!

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as usual, all the beagles got some cuddle time in

Lucy getting love from her mom… and Charlie getting a tickle too! (and in the background, Marmalade and Tammy getting scratches and loves)

Roger was also getting a good cuddle!

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These 3 ladies were very interested in something… Rebel, Pippen and Bella

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Thanks to everyone who makes these days possible! Our next hunt is on Sunday 1 August at 7:30am… sign up here.

We only have 4 more open hunts left in the 2010 season! And then the Top Ten Challenge where the top ten beagles of this season compete in a long line to see who has what it takes!!

After the season is over, and the points have been tallied, we have a black tie prize giving, where all beagles are awarded certificates, and there are rosettes and trophies and other prizes for various beagles… it is great fun and a lovely evening… Hopefully lots of you who have joined us in 2010 will come along to this, it is an awesome way to pay tribute to our hounds who have done us so proud! (see the photos from last year HERE … can you recognize anyone, without their beagles in tow, and not covered in muddy paw prints?? )

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One female (R5500 each) and two males left (R4500 each)

All tricolor

The dogs are KUSA registered

Ready to go on 18 August

Randburg – JHB

People can contact Michelle – email michelleg2 (AT) boston.co.za

here is a pic of a previous litter:

Beautiful  tri colour BEAGLE puppies available:

2 x Males available.

Puppies will be KUSA registered, inoculated and dewormed.

Great family dogs.

Available 1^st of August.

R5000 each.

Centurion.

Contact Esmari . t-industries (AT) vodamail.co.za

We received this from Merlot’s mom, Liesel… as I was reading it, I had tears pouring down my face.

This is the story of Merlot, and how she was lost, for almost a week… and then found!

I hope you guys can all understand Afrikaans!

Merlot
Verlore en gevind.
Sondag (04/07/10) het ons besluit om met
ons 4 honde langs die strand Melkbos te gaan baljaar.Met groot opgewondenheid het
ons hulle almal in die bakkie gelaai.
Merlot wou toe soos gewoonlik op my skoot kom sit terwyl ons ry.Sy het die bakkie se
agterste venster oop geskuif en teen 80km per uur die grond getref,gerol en
weggehardloop.Die voertuig agter ons het haar gelukkig nie getref nie.
Ek was verbysterd……angs,vrees en n beklemming het my oorval…….my poppie hond
kind is dood en weg………………
Die vrees aanjaende soektog het begin.Ons het geroep en gesoek en vreesbevange rond
gehardloop.Elke liewe sekonde het erger geword en n golf van doodse angs het my
oorval……waar is Merlot en wat gaan in daai honde breintjie aan? Sy is in skok en
moes geweldig seer gekry het.
Tussen die duine het ons na God geroep en gesmeek om daardie liefling hondjie (wat nie
eers in die koue rëen sonder haar rëenjassie uitgaan nie) terug in veiligheid te besorg.
Ek het my ouers gebel(Pa Soon Zevenster en Ma Betsie Zevenster)”Kom help soek asb.
Ons liefling hondjie is in die koue nag iewers by die see in die bosse.”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pa en was binne 10minute daar.
Dit het gebeur op die pad vanaf Big Bay na Melkbos.By die kultuur sentrumhet Merlot
uit bakkie geval.Dis baie dig bebos daar en die pad geweldig besig.

My ouers het tot laat nag gesoek.Michael Gray (die veearts spesialis van Panorama
Diere Kliniek) het ook kom help soek(Ek het n maand terug daar begin werk)Hy ken
diere en het naarstigtelik gehelp soek.Ons 4 het geroep en gesoek.My ouers is terug huis
toe om flitse,water en kos te bring…..dit het n soektog geword tot in die vroeë oggend
ure.
My ouers het die ander Beagle Vlekkie Merlot se sussie gaan haal met die ander 3 honde
met die hoop dat dit sou help.Tevergeefs…………..
Ons moes toe terug keer huiswaarts want die ander honde was geweldig uitgeput en my
arme ouers was gedaan.
Verslae stap ons die huis binne……daar staan Merlot se kos bakkie en haar snoesige
bedjie is leeg………
Benoud het ek na my kamer gegaan en na DIE HERE geroep……!!!!!!!!!!
Dis net die Almagtige God wat nou vir Merlot kan bewaar.
Ek kon nie slaap nie.Slaap was nie moontlik nie en ek het begin sms`e stuur na getroue
vriendinne.Ondersteuning was nou noodsaaklik.
Merlot behoort ook aan die Beagle Klub van die Wes-Kaap.Christene Brindell wat
stigter is van die Klub het volstoom mail begin uitstuur op Gumtree,facebook en die
website van Beagles.Die ondersteuning van die klub was ONGELOOFLIK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pamflette was oral in die area opgeplak.Mense wat ek skaars geken het van die klub het
deur gekom en gehelp soek.Elke liewe lid het sy of haar deel gedoen.Nog nooit in my
lewe het ek so n ondersteuningsgroep teegekom nie.Magriet van die Paarl wat ook n
Beagle het het deurgekom en klomp plakate opgesit.Die strande is plat geloop.Daagliks
het vriende en kenisse die strand en bosse plat geloop.Carol van Animal tracks het op en
af gery in die area.My dierbare ouers het deur die nagte gesoek sonder om te dink aan
slaap.Snags en in die vroeë oggend ure het mense wat haar gewaar het geskakel.Die
wagte by Atlantic Estate het haar daar een oggend 3;30am langs die draad gewaar waar
sy water kom drink het.Hulle kon haar glad nie vang nie sy was soos blits weg.Ons het
onmiddellik deur gejaag en weereens terleurgesteld terug gekom huis toe.
Merlot was verskrik en in skok.Sy het toe reeds al vir 4 dae nie kos nie en slaap iewers
in die bos, koud sonder haar kombersie alleen tussen wildekatte,slange en op harde sand.
My pa het een aand besluit ons moet kamp langs see by die kultuur sentrum en
braai.Merlot sal die reuk optel en na ons toe kom…………… maar tevergeefs.Die volgende
dag het ons weer die strand aangepak.My moeder (67l) het toe al reeds teen die tyd 4x
die strand plat gestap vanaf 3de steen tot by die Kultuur sentrum.Pa het ook so gestap en

gery om kos en water aan ons te verskaf.Komberse,baadjies,kos is elke aand en dag
gelaai om Merlot te soek.Saans laat en soggens vroeg het ons gery en gesoek……..
My arme ouers se lewe het tot stilstand gekom en net n verbouereerde soektog
nagmerrie lewe is gelei.
Pa Soon het getrou geglo en ons het gereeld saam gekniel en in gebed na God gegaan.
Vriendinne het getrou gebid en geglo.
My nuwe werk was n geweldige ondersteuning.Erica (Praktyk Bestuurderes) en
Nadia(Diens Bestuurderes). Michael Gray die eienaar van praktyk het snags laat
deurgekom en gehelp soek.By die werk bedags was ek getrou deur hulle en kliënte
geondersteun.Wanneer ek gewerk het het my ouers Merlot intens gesoek.
Teen Woensdag het gemoedere begin sak maar die vertroue het bly staan.Ons het getrou
gebid en geglo.Moegheid het ons almal oorval en ons was uitgeput.Alles het net gegaan
oor Merlot en nie oor ons nie.My ouers is die mees onselfsugtig mense wat ek nog ooit
teegekom het.Daar is nie een maal gekla nie……net n soektog wat in vertroue plaas
gevind het.
Donderdag 08/07/2010.
Ons het begin om die Here te loof vir wat Hy gaan doen.
Ons was totaal uitgeput.Teen die tyd het n paar mense ons al geskakel wat haar teen die
pad snags gewaar het.n Polisieman het een aand gedink dis n springbokkie langs die pad
maar toe erken hy haar…..die prag hondjie op die foto……
Hy het ons om 22hoo geskakel en onmiddellik het ons weer deurgejaag en weer druip
stert teruggekom.
Dieselfde aand het die wagte van Atlantic beach estate haar ook gewaar.
Dit was die ergste vir ons dat sy na niemand toe wil gaan nie ….sy wag net vir ons daar
in die bos langs die pad waar sy ons verloor het.So getrou!!!!!!!!!!!!….maar sy vlug vir
almal en sy kan dan vir ure nie opgespoor word nie.
08/07/2010-14h00.
Na werk is ek huistoe om weer te begin soek.Ounooi my German-Shepard het toe weer
die soektog met my begin.Ouers het gou gaan kos koop vir nog n aand en dag se soektog
Snags was dit ysigkoud…al waaraan ons kon dink is Merlot.Sy ken net n warm bedjie en
baie liefde.Sy is bang vir alle vreemde mense en is glad nie n buite hondjie nie.
Die Sondag wat sy weggeraak het het sy haar beker verwerf as die wenner van die
Beagle-run vir 2009.Haar blou wenner jassie en beker was hier maar sy is
spoorloos……dit was uiters pynlik.

Teen 6pm gewaar ek weer my ouers teen die strand stap.My arme ma kon skaars een tree
stap maar sy het deurgedruk……..
Ounooi en die ander honde was gedaan.My pa se skoene was al deurgeloop……stemme
is weg van roep……..n nagmerrie,vrees het n werklikheid geword.!!!!!!!!!!!
08/07/2010,19h00
Ons was terug huis toe om te eet en pa het weereens die motor vol petrol gemaak.dik
jasse is ingepak,waterflesse en flitse.
Ons besluit toe dat ek en Ounooi padlangs moet stap. (net na 3de steen tot voor
Melkbos by Kultuursentrum.
Michael vir wie ek werk bel my toe ook en sê hy kom ook weereens deur om te kom
help soek.Die arme man was doodmoeg want hy moes baie operasies die dag uitvoer.
Pa stel toe voor ek stap met n kosbak gevul met honde pille en skud dit soos ek haar
roep.Pa en ma ry toe so 100meter voor my.Die staptog begin.(pa het oor die 700km
altesaam gery)Pa se nuwe kar was vol seesand en modder….skoene was flenters…….
Ons het langs die pad gestop en hande gavat.Pa het gebid in alle erns……pa het ons almal
teen die tyd emosioneel gedra.
Dis ysig koud en pik donker.Motors jaag op die pad heen en weer.Die ligte verblind jou
oë.Ek dink by myself…wat gaan deur daai ou honde breintjie nou??? Dit was n bittere
hartseer aand vir ons almal.
So word daar gestap en n stainless steel bak word geslaan met pitte in.Dit klink erg in
die aand.Ek roep haar naam……n hartseer kreed in n donker nag…..
Ouers ry 100meter stop en draai dan weer om na my en Ounooi…bring water.My keel
toe al rou geroep,Ounooi se potjies seer gestap…….ouers gedaan maar geloof en vertroue
bly staan.
Daar was ook n geval waar ek amper deur n vreemde man opgetel is maar pa so vinnig
met spotligte op die man dat hy stert tussen bene daar weggejaag het.
Pa ry toe weer so 150meter vooruit.Skielik is dit pikgiet donker…..ek sien hul nie…….dis
net ek en Ounooi.Daar is nie n motor op die pad nie.
Ek begin weer tot God roep en met alle erns smeek……..ek begin God loof en sing n
vertrouens liedjie……my stem breek en ek val op my knieë langs n bos…….”my God my
God het U my verlaat”?!!!!!!!(ek het wel geweet Sy engele bewaar Merlot).

SKIELIK IS DAAR N SAGTE BEWEGING IN DIE BOS….ONS STAAN
STIL…….WEER N GERITSEL……DIT KOM NADER……..DIE TAKKE BREEK EN
DAAR IS IETS WAT BAIE VINNIG NADER
KOM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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`N GODLIKE TEENWOORDIGHEID OORVALMY EN EK BEGIN
SKREEU……..MY GOD…MY …GOD…..U IS
GETROU…………………………………………………………………………..
`n Yskoue lyfie spring toe uit die bos in my arms want ek het afgebuig…..n nat tongetjie
lek my oor my gesig en in my nek…..ons val in die bos en ek klou vas aan haar….dis
Merlot.Sy tjank en soen en lek…..vergete is die kos…sy het my nie verlaat om te eet
nie…..soos n mens het haar potjies om my nek gevou.
Met n kreet wat uit my maag uit brul….loof ek GOD EN Al WAT EK KON SKREEU IN
DIE DONKER NAG IS ‘MY…….GOD…MY ….GOD….MY KIND…MY
KIND…………GOD U IS SO GETROU……….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Teen die tyd het my ouers my verloor want ek lê in die bos…….
Die eerste gedagte wat by hulle opkom is…..”ek het iets oorgekom of op Merlot se lykie
afgekom.
Pa hardloop toe oor die pad nadat n motor hom amper omgery het…..ma sit benoud in
die kar en bid.Dadlik het ek Michael gebel…. om te kom help met haar versorging……
Pa staan verstom langs my en neem Merlot in sy arms.By die kar gee pa vir haar n vars
stuk hoender wat hy spesiaal die middag vol vertroue vir haar gekoop het.Sy was
bitterlik honger………dit het ons harte gebreek om te sien hoe honger sy was.
Merlot was oortrek met bosluise, haar ogie bo het n efense sny gehad van die val…..maar
verder niks…………engele het haar bewaar…….
Ons is huistoe en ek en Michael is dadlik diere hospitaal toe met Merlot……
Die volgende oggend het sy nog net soos sy met haar moeë lyfie in my arms geslaap het
gelê…….
Ek en mamma het later die oggend elkeen n pragtige bos blomme van Michael
gekry.Die sms`e vir Merlot stop nie…..die pragtige mail wat ons ontvang is hartroerend.

Die ondersteuning wat ons ontvang het was ongelooflik.Dankie aan almal van die
Beagle-klub!!!!!!Julle het ons as familie gedra en bo verwagtinge ge-ondersteun.Al my
vriendinne wat gebel en gebid het so baie baie dankie.
Mag Jesus julle almal seën,bewaar en beskerm in die jaar wat voorlê.
Baie baie dankie
Pa Soon.mamma Betsie,Liesel en
Merlot.

Hey Guys…

Merlot, the beagle who went missing in Blaauwberg, has been found!!

She is fine, other than a few scratches and she’s a little thinner. But she is home safe and sound, which is all that matters!

Thank you to everyone who distributed her details and searched for her and said a prayer for her and her family!!

Three courageous canines are to be honoured by an animal charity for behaviour beyond the call of duty… and one of them is a beagle!!

5 year old Frodo, a Beagle that became a lifesaver one night in June 2008.

Fire swept through the family home in St Bees, Cumbria, and smoke alarms in the house were faulty.

Frodo, in the burnt-out kitchen. (Photo: Cumbrian Newspapers)

Sensing danger, Frodo woke up his owner Jenny Barwise and led her through dense smoke to where other members of the family were sleeping.

Frodo was hailed a hero by Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service for his actions.

Read the full story and watch a very cute video of Frodo and the other dogs on Sky News

** EDIT – Friday 9 July – MERLOT IS FOUND!!!

SAFE AND SOUND BACK WITH HER

FAMILY!! THANKS TO ALL FOR THE HELP

AND SUPPORT!! **

*EDIT Tuesday 6 July – R4000 Reward offered!!**

Hey Guys…

one of the top hunting beagles in the Western Cape group is missing!!

Her name is MERLOT… if you see her, or can help in anyway, please email us!!

Please distribute this to everyone you know in the area!!

Hey Guys…

there is a bit of a scare going around Gauteng with regards to rabies. Someone in our group has heard of 2 confirmed cases in the past week (near Krugersdorp).

Because of this, we are now INSISTING on all beagles to BRING their UP TO DATE VACCINATION CERTIFICATE to the JHB hunts. Especially with the larger than normal amount of fights we have been having at the hunts.

We will be implementing a “No Certificate – No Hunt policy” … please be very aware of this, and make sure all your pets are up to date with their vaccinations.

There was an article in the Sowetan about it and here is an article off

www.nicd.ac.za/pubs/communique/communique.htm

Rabies alert

Rabies was confirmed this month in two domestic dogs from separate households in Witpoortjie, an established suburb on the West Rand of Gauteng Province. One of the dogs had received a single dose of rabies vaccine as a young puppy. Neither dog had left the area prior to developing rabies. Both cases were characterised as the canid biotype of rabies virus. The source of the rabies remains unclear, but may be due to contact with a stray rabies-infected dog or undisclosed travel. While no definite human exposures were identified, a course of rabies vaccination was given to two household family members with possible category 2 exposures. An intensive dog vaccination campaign was launched by the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries. A similar incident occurred in 2009 when rabies was confirmed in a domestic dog in the Johannesburg suburb of Linden. While rabies in domestic animals in suburban areas of Johannesburg is very uncommon, these incidents highlight two important points: the need to consider rabies as a differential diagnosis in the appropriate clinical setting, as well as rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for the management of all persons with animal exposures. PEP is especially important if the exposure is un¬provoked, the animal is a stray, the animal is ill or aggressive, or if the animal originates from an area where rabies is common. Thorough wound cleaning is critical, and PEP (with a course of rabies vaccine and rabies immunoglobulin into the wound) according to the national guidelines may be life-saving.

There has been a total of 6 laboratory-confirmed human rabies cases in South Africa for 2010 to date. These cases originate from Mpumalanga (n=1); KwaZulu-Natal (n=1), Eastern Cape (n=1) and Limpopo (n=3) provinces.
Source: Special Pathogens and Outbreak Response Units, NICD; Gauteng Department of Agriculture

Yesterday was Fathers’ Day and the week preceding the hunt was one of the coldest weeks Jozi has seen in years!! Brrrrr.

But, there was a pretty big turnout at our hunt, even a few new people again. Our usual huntmaster was off celebrating Fathers’ Day, so Jane took the lead and organised the lines for us.

Once the sun peeped over the mountains, it was slightly less chilly. The beagles didn’t seem too worried about the cold, frosty ground, and ran around as usual!

We had a LOT of new, young males and the testosterone was flying! This is a natural thing, as they were trying to establish a hierarchy, but it is quite stressful to us humans, and some of the other dogs… so, please remember to keep your dogs (ESPECIALLY unsterilised males!!) on a short lead when they are not on the line.

The hunts all went well, with a minimal number of beagles going off on their own mission (except little Wendy who went chasing birds faaaaaaaaaaaar away from the rest of us… thanks Peter and Martin for going to fetch her!)

Roger spent Fathers’ day with his dad:

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Poppadom and Roti celebrated their Dad’s (twenty-first! – hehe) birthday AS WELL AS Fathers’ Day! Happy Birthday Trev!!

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Charlie found a stick which kept him entertained between lines

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Bella getting lots of love and cuddles from her mom

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Harry also got lots of love and cuddles in the cold

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all of us lining up at the start… restraining the beagles who just wanted to RUN!

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Who can you spot in this pic? (*click on photo to open full size*).

Denver (in orange 23)  and Pippen (in the pink bib) out in front… Jamie in the middle (in the yellow 91 bib). Enzo in full stretch near the front (orange number 80)… is that Kingsley in the orange just behind Enzo?

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Who can you spot in this pic? (*click on photo to open full size*).

Denver (orange 23) and Lucy (black denim bib) in the front, Pippen in pink right behind. Jamie in yellow in the middle, next to little Maya in the white. A new beagle in the orange (V bib) is just ahead of Jemma in the pink. Go beagles! go, go go!!

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oooh, and as a bonus, here are some videos of our hunts!! They were taken at the last hunt, but I’ve only managed to get round to uploading them now!

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Our next hunt is on 4 July and will be a breakfast again!! Yum yum!! sign up for the HUNT here… remember, if you want to join for the breakfast too, you MUST email me and let me know how many people we need to cater for!

Thanks to everyone for organising and running the hunts! Look forward to the 4th!