George is back!

George has been awfully busy lately but now that he's settled into his new home (and we have an internet connection) it's time to start blogging again!!

Since we last spoke...

George has moved house to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. He has a new buddy at his local park, her name is Lola and she's a 6 month old Jug (Jack Russel / Pug - pics to come). He likes to chew her ear. She likes to respond with a gutteral sound that resembles drowning. She also has a curly piglet tail that George likes to 'boing!'*

George had a visit to the vets for the snip (see later post). He was awfully good but we fear he may have needed a few more hormones developed first (he popped in at 6 months) as he has since turned into a prissy girl dog. This is not helped by his new favourite find on the streets...baby dummies. It is not a rough and tough look. Will have to buy a leather collar with spikes if he keeps this up (or perhaps a shiny pink bow...)

We have started buying George huge great big Flintstone-style bones from the butchers (I would include a pic as he is currently trailing one around the living-room, even after my repeatedly reminding him it is an outside toy, but it is totally pink and gross and...boney). George has taken to burying them in the garden and then dragging them back inside over our cream carpet. He has also tried to bury them in the sofa and then covering up the evidence with our Mexican blanket. I have explained to him that it would be much easier to get our hands on another Beagle than a blanket from Mexico but he doesn't appear to listen. He just sits there looking smug knowing that no-one will ever again find his bone - he doesn't notice of course that half of it is still poking out from between the sofa cushions. We don't say anything.

George is now pretty much as big as he plans on getting. At his last weigh in (at the new vets - he had a funny tummy) he was 14 kgs!!! See pic of him with his dad taken by our cousin Jemma a couple of weeks ago:

Notice how even at 11 months old, he still enjoys showing off his 'seal pup' impression.

*Boing! definition: the art of pulling a curly piglet tail with teeth until straight like Beagle tail, then releasing.