Hey Guys,

remember when some of us did the charity walk at Animals in Distress in Midrand in early October?

Well, there are pictures of some of us and our beagles in the latest edition of the Animals in Distress newsletter!

I was so excited when I opened up my post box over the weekend!

Unfortunately, the booklet is folded, and then I scanned it in, so, apologies for the not so great quality!

a really bad scan of the group of walking people…:

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And the kind people at Animals in Distress sent me some other shots that she had on file… (click on the pics to view a larger image!)

Hey Everyone…

our last Walkhaven day for the year will be on Sunday 20 December at 2pm. I know some of you might be away… but we’ll have a run for you guys

What I would like to do, is ask everyone who comes to please bring something to donate to Animals in Distress from your beagle. I will drop off all the donations to the society, on behalf of the Beagles!

Donations can be:

• Cat or dog food (tinned or dry)
• Old (or new!) blankets or towels
• Any animal bedding (as long as it is machine washable – ie none of that horrible grey underfelt stuff)
• Newspapers (to use in the hospital area)

This is not by any means compulsory, but it would be greatly appreciated and go a long way in helping animals who are not as fortunate as your beagle

If you would like to donate something, and cannot make it to Walkhaven on 20 Dec, please email me or see Animals in Distress’s website for more info.

I hope you can make it! – See you there!!

Sign up on Facebook, or on the beagle site.

- Happy Beagling,

Tanya

Another fun day at Walkhaven!

After a solid week of pouring rain and freezing cold, all the beagles were thrilled to be out and about, in the sun!
Not sure what the people at Walkhaven must think when every couple of weeks they are bombarded by a huge pack of crazy beagles!

I won’t even TRY and mention names of who was there…. because there were WAY too many beagles to remember them all – and a very large group of beagles I don’t know from the hunts, so I’m guessing they are from our Facebook Group

There was running, swimming, rolling, howling, barking and everything else that goes with being a beagle.

Oh – the highlight of our day was meeting Bailey! Who is FINALLY home after being lost for 3 weeks! She has become a household name to our group of beagle-huggers and is now quite the celebrity!

Here are some photos from the afternoon yesterday… (Thanks to Carmel – Snoopy’s Momma for the pics – I am very slack at getting pics!)

Oh, if you have some pics, Please upload them onto our BeagleTalk Forum – click HERE for the direct link to the thread.

Harry and Oscar

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Beagles!

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Swimming Beagles

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Smiling Snoopy

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WATCH THE HOME PAGE FOR DETAILS OF OUR FINAL WALKHAVEN MEETUP FOR THE YEAR!

The Top Ten Challenge was this morning…

as mentioned before the top ten beagles were:

Jesse, Jet, Leo, Matthew, Maya, Oscar, Poppadom, Roger, Roti and Sam.

Unfortunately Jesse did not join us, as he had a run in with a car during the week… We all send him well wishes to be back on his feet SOON!! So, there was just a top nine this morning.

--- FROM LEFT: Glen, Vicky & Lyn with Vicky's hounds Sam and Leo. Shaw with Matthew. Roelf with Maya. Trevor with Roti. Dilene with Poppadom. Tanya and Peter with Oscar. Claire with Jet. Raymond with Roger. ---

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The scent was laid by motorbike (about 7km long) and the nine beagles were taken to the starting point, scented and released. We had a pretty good view of the line from our position back at the cars. Leo took a very early lead with Matthew, Jet and Oscar not too far behind. Poppadom, Roti, Roger, Sam and Maya brought up the rear.

About three quarters of the way, the beagles encountered a group of about 5 guys walking through the mountains. The more experienced beagles didn’t pay any attention to the people, and carried on with their race. The younger dogs, however, stopped and barked and howled at the group… Unfortunately this threw the younger dogs off a bit

We were eagerly watching the dogs on the line, and waiting for them to start coming in…

LEO did Vicky proud for the umpteenth time, and came in waaaaaaay ahead of everyone else! Leo is 10 years old and is still super fit and a fantastic hunting hound! Well, well done boy!!

--- Congrats to Leo - who wins Top Ten 2009 again! ---

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In second place was ROGER! He came in, tongue hanging and looking ever so proud of himself! I think Raymond almost did a somersault at the sight of his boy

In third place was little JET! All of 15 months old! Fantastic job boy! Claire was very proud of her little boy when he came running over the finish line!

Fourth place was old MATTHEW who is very nearly 10 years old as well. He has been in the Top Ten for a few years now, but hasn’t finished one in a while. Shaw was also very very proud of his boy for doing such a great job.

A little while later, young SAM (Leo’s grandson) came in with a big beaglish smile on his handsome face.

Unfortunately, the other 4 beagles did not manage to complete the line (but all came back us without any problems, or anyone getting lost). So, even though they did not place, a big congratulations to: POPPADOM, ROTI, OSCAR and the rose among the thorns, young MAYA. Even though they didn’t finish, we are very proud of all of them… And JESSE too!

We have had over 100 beagles come through this season, so, being in the Top Ten is a real honour!

After the challenge, we feasted on a wonderful breakfast provided by Jane – who has done a great job at organising the events this season.

--- See Pippen's head in the cooler box? ---

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There were also some beagles at the hunt to cheer on the Top Ten/Nine. Thanks to these guys for joining us, and supporting the top ten/nine for the morning: Snoopy, Bella, Purdy, Pippen, Rebel, Ninja & Zena (cheering for their little brother Jet), Harry (cheering for his little bro, Oscar), Little Kitana (who is related to Roger) and Meisie.

The Top Ten beagles for 2009 have been announced!
Congratulations to all ten of them! – I would like to mention that of the Ten, Maya is the only female who made it into the top! Well done girl!!
The Top Ten challenge is this Sunday, 20 September at 7:30am (Click here for details)

Please feel free to leave the beagles a good luck message in the “comments” section below the post! Let us know who you think (or want!) to win!!

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1st		Beagle Info: Name: LEO Date of Birth: 12 March 1999 Sex: Male	Owned by: Vicky Harris
2nd		Beagle Info: Name: POPPADOM Date of Birth: 1 June 2004 Sex: Male	Owned by: Trevor Boyd & Dilene Cranna
3rd		Beagle Info: Name: ROTI Date of Birth: 1 June 2004 Sex: Male	Owned by: Trevor Boyd & Dilene Cranna
4th		Beagle Info: Name: JET Date of Birth: 30 June 2008 Sex: Male	Owned by: Graham and Claire Leach
5th		Beagle Info: Name: MAYA Date of Birth: 27 March 2008 Sex: Female	Owned by: Roelf Kotzenberg
6th		Beagle Info: Name: OSCAR Date of Birth: 19 December 2007 Sex: Male	Owned by: Peter van Staden & Tanya de Ville
7th		Beagle Info: Name: JESSE Date of Birth: 1 March 2006 Sex: Male	Owned by: Vicky Harris
8th		Beagle Info: Name: SAM Date of Birth: 27 June 2007 Sex: Male	Owned by: Vicky Harris
9th		Beagle Info: Name: MATTHEW Date of Birth: 13 October 1999 Sex: Male	Owned by: Shaw McMahon
10th		Beagle Info: Name: ROGER Date of Birth: 17 October 2004 Sex: Male	Owned by: Raymond Antoncich

We had our last hunt this morning.

Even though it was our last meeting, we still had new people join us, which is always great! There were about 35 to 40 beagles today. It was very hot out there! The beagles struggle quite a lot in the heat. Luckily the lines weren’t too long though. Lots and lots of beagles finished the lines, and no-one went off on their own mission again! It was great. I even heard Lucy finished a line for the first time today – well done girl!

Looking back over the 2009 season, it is so encouraging to see the dogs who started out as “newbies” earlier in the year are now running the lines like pro’s! The parents of 2009-first-time-hunters Denver, Basil, Ace, Jet and  Maya should all be extremely proud of their hounds who have done incredibly well this season and have fitted into the group wonderfully and are now really part of the furniture – so to speak. The other new guys who have become regulars have also done really well – for lack of time and space (and for fear of leaving out a name or two) I won’t mention everyone by name…! – but you know who you are, and should be proud! The guys who joined us later in the season, and are still catching on are showing great potential too – next year will be your time to shine!

It’s always a bit sad at the last hunt for the season… we have such great fun with our hounds throughout the year. I know I miss it in Summer time!

Next Sunday, at 7:30, is the Top Ten challenge. Anyone is welcome to come and watch – with leashed beagles, of course! The line for the Top Ten is about 6km long… and there is only one line – not 5 x 1km lines like we normally have.

After the hunt we’ll have a breakfast again (R20 per person, please email me if you want to stay for breakfast!)

** Watch this space for: **

• Top Ten announcement this week
• Details of End of Year Prize Giving Ball announcement this week
• Placing of the Top Ten Next Sunday!
• Details of social Beagle meet-ups in Summer

We are having a social get together after the hunt on Sunday. It’s a relaxed fun morning to get to know other people and beagles in our group. Have a bite to eat, have a chat, watch the beagles play.

We will be supplying the food, for R20 per person. It will either be boerewors rolls, or croissants etc… depending on the number of people we need to cater for.

*** If you would like to come to the breakfast after the hunt, please EMAIL ME WITH NUMBERS to we can cater accordingly. ***

The hunt starts at 8am, and we will eat after that (about 11-ish)… you can book your beagles in for the hunt HERE (note this is the hunt part of the morning only, not the breakfast part )

See you then!

Happy beagling,
Tanya

Yesterday was a HAPPY FATHERS DAY HUNT!

We have been so lucky with the weather this season… I mean, we are at the end of June and we haven’t had a *freezing* morning yet (touch wood). It was lovely, sunny and warm.

We had about 35 beagles, I guess… so not as many as the last few weeks. Still, we had a few new people.

The morning went off without anything particularly noteworthy happening. Other than Marmalade doing her disappearing trick after a line. Oscar has also met a new partner in crime, in little Denver! They are attached by Oscar’s tail to Denver’s nose! They came running back to us after they completed a line… only to SPEED off together, to do the line AGAIN – all by themselves! And they did the same thing on the next line!!
I don’t know about Denver, but Oscar is STILL recovering from yesterday

After the very last line A LOT of dogs went back on the line to try and find us… so when we got to the end, we had to head out to look for them. It felt like a loooooong search! The grass was also really long in this area, so it was quite tricky. But everyone was found and went home filthy and exhausted!

It was another fun morning out on the highveld!

Sign up for the next hunt on 5 July here. Lets hope the weather keeps on like this!

Remember that Beagles.co.za is now selling Frontline Tick & Flea control at discounted rates… click here for more info & prices

Until next time!
-Happy Beagling,
Tanya

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Oscar

!! * EDIT * !! – PRICES HAVE GONE DOWN BY R5.00 SINCE THE POST WAS MADE…I HAVE CHANGED THEM AND THEY ARE NOW CORRECT!

Hi Everyone!

For the last week or two, we have been trying to get hold of Frontline in bulk to sell at a discounted price. Raymond has managed to find the supplier and given us a really good price on Frontline.

PLEASE NOTE: these prices are for the JHB Hunts only and are for collection AT THE HUNTS. If we have to post them, we will need to add on postage costs and you will end up paying the same as at a pet shop.

“FRONTLINE Plus offers long-lasting  flea and tick control, killing up to 100% of fleas on your pet within 18 hours  and up to 100% of ticks on your pet within 48 hours .

Best of all, research confirms that FRONTLINE products work for an entire month to help keep your pet flea-free!”

Read more on http://frontline.us.merial.com/home/

You can buy Frontline in all pet shops, but is quite expensive, and it is an absolute necessity to use on your pets, even if they do not come to field days, they are still in danger of picking up ticks. One of the major carriers of ticks is birds – particularly Hadidas.

Below are the prices for Frontline from Beagles.co.za – the prices in brackets are the normal selling prices in pet shops. I have listed the price for small, medium and large dogs. Beagles would need the medium size, but if you have other size dogs in your family, please protect them too! These prices are for SINGLE APPLICATION TUBES. You need to use one tube per dog per month… at least 3 days after a bath, and at least 3 days before a bath.

Size of Dog                Price                 normally sells for

0-10 kg ………………………… R 40.00…………………… (R 57.00)

10kg – 20 kg ………………R 55.00…………………… (R 75.00)

20kg – 40kg……………………R 70.00…………………….(R 98.00)

40kg – 60kg……………………R 75.00…………………….(not sure of this retail price)

YOU NEED TO ORDER VIA EMAIL (click here to mail me) TO ENSURE WE ORDER ENOUGH UNITS!  If you would like to place an order, please let me know which size you need, and how many you want.

Always remember to give your beagles a once over after the hunts, just to check for any ticks that might have latched onto them. Remember to check inside their ears too!