beagle – Page 9

Beagles love carrots

Posted on May 21, 2015February 15, 2022

Of course they do. Anything with big ears loves carrots: rabbits (infamously), elephants, other… stuff with big ears.

Here’s a video of a beagle pup “mesmerized by flying carrots”:

That “mesmerized by flying carrots” quote comes from this Mashable page which features the video, and also gives us this fantastic line:

Carrots dangling from the sky (or, in this case, the ceiling fan) is more than most of us can even dream of.

Personally, I’m capable of dreaming of far more than dangling carrots, but if that’s absolutely as far as your imagination can run, Tricia Gilbride, then I’m sure Freud would have some fairly concise explanation for you.

That said, at around 24 seconds in, it does appear that for Maymo the beagle (for it is he), all his Christmases have come both early and simultaneously. LOOK AT THAT JOY! JUST LOOK AT IT!

This is just one of the plethora of beagle-related videos, cartoons and photographs which I have been sent since I mentioned that we were getting a beagle. I’m so grateful for every single one. Really, I am. Thank you. In fact, yesterday’s “nice” seal video was actually another – along with the description:

This seal looks a bit like a sea beagle. Hang on – that’s, like, the best contraction ever!
SEA beagLe = SEAL!
LOL.

LOL indeed. Copiously.

Lucky Escape

Posted on March 8, 2015March 9, 2015

Hannover 96 had to rely on a penalty shootout to get them past 1.FC Köln in the German Pokal first round earlier this evening.
Hannover were cruising to a 1-0 win when their influential playmaker… er… me… was distracted by a playful beagle flinging both itself and a nauseatingly damp half of its owl chew toy at me, allowing Köln to sneak a last minute equaliser.

’96 have huge concerns of a similar incident as they head away to cup specialists Bayer Leverkusen in the next round, but they needn’t worry, as I’ve now shut the dog in the kitchen for remainder of the tournament.

All too much

Posted on February 22, 2015February 22, 2015

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so this sums things up nicely, and saves me a lot of time.

Bit knackered tonight, and I feel like folding myself up like a beagle and getting some much-needed sleep.

Beagles continue to follow me

Posted on February 20, 2015February 25, 2015

They’re everywhere. If it’s not enough that there’s a real one at home, anything and everything beagle-related is now being sent to me by an ever increasing number of contacts, twitter followers and blog readers. The morning after the night before (the Westminster Dog Show) was particularly gruelling.

Here’s the latest:

Which, given my new-found culinary prowess (i.e. I didn’t kill those friends that came round for dinner), has given me a wonderful idea for the braai this weekend.

Break out the Hendo’s!

A bit weird

Posted on February 10, 2015July 21, 2017

This is mildly creepy.

Step forward the new Dialdirect TVC: “The Notebook”, filmed in Kalk Bay (at least some of it) and currently airing on SA TV right now. Have a look. And curse those darn onions that someone is cutting nearby and which are making your eyes water. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

Lovely. I’m almost ready to buy some insurance. Almost.

But now, look at this:
We have an ironing board, and a kitchen. We live in a house. We have a blonde-haired son. And we also have a beagle which bays at the vacuum cleaner. Big wow.

But here’s the odd bit: in the ad, their beagle is called “Mr Tiger”.

Our beagle is called ~~Colin~~ Tigger.

And our blonde-haired son was also recently in a school play. Now, based on the fact that in the ad, little Noah played the role of a tree in his school play, and being aware that there must be literally tens and tens of thousands of different roles available in school plays, guess what our boy was…?

Yep. And by all accounts, they were both absolutely brilliant: a triumph, dahlink!

Anyway, I liked the ad, and I thought the striking similarities were strikingly similar.

That lovely music, by the way, is the acoustic version of Woodkid’s I Love You. You’ll be wanting the youtube link, won’t you? Yeah, we’ve got that sorted for you, obvs: click here.