Hide and seek

We love to play hide and seek. One of us hides (not so subtlely I may add)and when the other one comes along we pounce! Here is me (Tilly) waiting to pounce on Tara who is trying to sleep - huh, sleeping when I want to play I don't think so!! When the time is right I will pounce and scare her into playing chasies or whatever. Gosh, life is such fun.

Sofa mess

You remember us telling you about our fun with the sofa and its contents .... well apparently our Auntie Louise in Hong Kong has asked if our humans had any photos. Now this is highly likely as they are always taking photos of us doing something or other. So ...... for posterity, here is one!

Dishwasher trouble

Now this is innocent Tara talking .... you'll never believe what that Tilly did this morning. We were eating (in seperate rooms as usual because she tries to steal mine!) when I heard such a kerfuffle, and then looked through the glass to see Tilly being chased out by the male human. Apparently what happened was that the lady human was stacking the dishwasher when Tilly decided she wanted to get into the machine and lick all the plates!! The machine tipped and the top drawer came out causing mayhem! Tilly dived out of the dog flap like a greyhound, and the door was shut behind her. She knew she was in trouble 'cos she didn't even try to return for ages!! Of course I was little innocent, and made the most of it.

Socks

Isn't it odd the things humans will do to amuse us dogs?
Our male human sits on the bed to put things on his feet he calls socks. We try to grab them - such fun. Sometimes we get them, sometimes not, he pretends to be angry but that's all part of the fun. We have noticed that a lot of his socks have quite a few holes in them, wonder why??

Brave me

Brave me being Tara. Today we went to the beach again - we love the beach. There were millions of dogs there and it was such a lovely day. Our humans tried to get us to go into the water - tempting us with treats - and I did it! Not all the way mind you, but it was a fun way to get a treat. Tilly, on the other hand - even though she is the greedy one between us - would not go in even for a treat. From now on I will call her Tilly wimp!
We are now wiped out and so have decided to spend the rest of the day crashing.

Discovery

We have made a great new discovery - if we tear at the metal thing on the sofa cushion it slips open , and then it reveals lots and lots of white fluffy stuff. The other day we had enough time to almost empty it - fluff everywhere. We were very quiet so the humans didn't notice what we were doing. The fluffy stuff is rather odd to chew but still great fun. When the humans came in to the room they pretended to be angry and we had to go out for a couple of minutes while they picked it all up. We didn't stay out for very long though and then we were cuddled again. Isn't life fun!!

Gardening

Our male human is into gardening - he plays with plants every day, and has all these cool tools which we love to creep up and 'borrow'. The best bit is when he's not looking and we can knock over plant pots. Sometimes they are empty in which case we just chew them but sometimes we get lucky and they are full of brown stuff and green things like sticks .These taste yummy but he does get upset when they were full and are now empty ... maybe the stuff all over the floor is the reason he gets upset?? This photo is of me (Tara)offering to help with the watering. ( I do have one question though - why does he cheer when it rains and we hate it so much??)

Sick!!

I was sick in the night last (Tara) and didn't feel well at all. Both my humans cleaned up after me and then stroked me to sleep. They said it was because I eat so much rubbish, but I don't know what they mean - I eat what's going, I don't know its rubbish or not. Admittedly the stuff in the bowl is nicer than most of the stuff I steal from the wardrobe, but how am I to know what 'rubbish' is? Maybe they should label everyhting.

Wet!

This last couple of days have been very odd. We've noticed that every now and then the yellow thing in the sky disappears and wet stuff falls, and sometimes it's very windy and 'loud'. We don't like this at all. I (Tilly) will go out in it to do the necessary but don't stay there long .... but Tara (wimpy Tara) won't even do that. She does her stuff on the patio floor undercover. I mean, okay getting wet is not great but hey.
Luckily for her the male human seems to be very understanding and just picks it and gives her a pat - I think it's a pat of sympathy, he gives me an even bigger pat for bravery.

The weekend

Humans are weird. Our humans had other humans come round to our house on Friday - and then they all proceeded to eat masses of food sitting around the table in the forbidden zone. It took ages! ...... and all this time we were ignored! We tried everything, whimpering, barking, looking cute - nothing worked. I mean - how come these other humans didn't fall for our sad eyes?

Thank goodness when they left we were able to cause havoc as the dishwasher was being loaded.

The the next two days our humans were in and out doing "jobs" . Don't know what that means but we were not amused being left all day. Still, as a reward for being so pathetic and good we were taken to the beach again this morning. All's well that ends well!

Beaching it.

We went to the beach again today. Off the leads we had such good fun. Lots of dogs to play with and seaweed to smell and roll in. We had the best time playing with a horse! (well, we thought it was a horse but we heard our humans talking to the other humans and apparently it was a dog called a great Dane) .... Whatever it was, it was enormous, such good fun to run underneath and back again. Big dogs can be scary sometimes but this one was as soft as us. Now we are crashing. Life's a beach eh!!

Fun & games in the night

Oh what fun we had last night - after bedtime! Someone went out very late, and that someone left the dog barrier ajar to the forbidden areas. Hey, what are we to do? Investigate of course..... and boy what did we find - chips, subway papers, plates, drinks, mouthguard retainer box - and on and on. Eventually the big human came through all bleary eyed and sent us out to wee. We took ages to do that 'cos we were having such a good time, but eventually we gave in , did our business and then the big softie allowed us on the big bed for the rest of the night. Boy did we sleep after all that excitement. Goodness knows what happened to the mess - but we were 'blameless' - just being Beagles after all. Sometimes it's such fun being a beagle.

The beach!!

Today, Wednesday, the humans took us to the beach - and let us off the lead. We're getting pretty good at coming when we are called now - of course we go back because treats await us, but hey what's a bribe between friends. We love the beach but are not too sure about that water stuff which keeps on coming backwards and forwards. Other dogs go in but not us, are we missing something??, maybe one day.
After the beach we were taken for a hydrobath. We hate hydrobaths. I (Tilly) simply can't see the point. Soon as possible I find something to roll in to get me back to normal. Tara just whinges, she doesn't seem to like rolling in smelly stuff though.

Tuesday

We went to a new place for walkies today - a place where we could be off the leads, and it was really good. Then the humans went for lunch and we sat with them by the river. Although we tried our best we could not persuade them to give us anything.

Sunday

We had a great Sunday ... we went to the Beagles Christmas Party. The humans have this club (WA Beagle Club) and we often meet with other humans and other Beagles. This party was great. I (Tara) was entered in the 'waggiest tail' competition - but as I wasn't consulted about I decided not to wag my tail!!
Tilly was entered in the 'biscuit hunt' competition - which is perfect for her as she is a greedy guts. She found the biscuit in no time at all - a record I guess - but then didn't fancy it to eat. As the hunters had to demolish the biscuit too she was disqualified....... she brought the biscuit to me though and we shared it - good fun.
We had a great run out in a huge park and really enjoyed the day - exhausting but brill!

Fri - found the mischief

This is us NOT chewing the reticulation - until he is not watching!!

Poor me

Friday 6 Nov. I (Tara) was sick this morning ... I think it was a sock! I must learn that everything lying around within grasp is not food. Luckily the male human cleared it up and cuddled me. I think we are very lucky living here - now I'm off to find some more mischief!