18 March – Orientation Day for new beagles!
We have decided to have an “Orientation Day” for new beagles of 2012! This will be held at our Hunt Venue at the usual time of a hunt. So, please diarise: Sunday 18 March 2012 at 7am. The purpose of this day is to introduce new people and their beagles to the club and the existing people and beagles. We will take a walk around the venue, let the...
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First KZN Hunt!
Thanks to everyone for a very successful first KZN Beagle Hunt on Saturday at Hillhouse. We were really impressed with how well the pack got on together. They quickly learned what to do and ran their little hearts out. This was largely due to Shaw’s great leadership and the very enthusiastic Marmalade and experienced Chelsea [who went down to KZN from JHB...
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JHB Hunt review 14 Aug & breakfast!
Even though our season is very nearly over, we are still getting new beagles join us every week! This week we welcomed Jack & Chelsea - Jack finished 2 of the lines and even came in first on one of them – great job! We also welcomed Tigger to his first hunt – hope to see him back again! Some other photos from the morning: Dexter...
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JHB Hunt review – 17 July 2011
We had over 40 beagles at the hunt yesterday, with a couple of new beagles again! The sun comes up over the mountains quite late, and we are in the shade for quite a while, which means it is FREEZING! Purdy brought her blanky with her to keep her cosy! *** Horatio brought his little sister Calleigh with him for the first time yesterday! *** Bruce and Roxy were...
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JHB Hunt review – 22 May
It is definitely colder and darker than last time!! Once again we had a couple of first timers… with about 45 hounds in total!! We were without our usual huntmaster and whistle blower, so, thanks to Jane for stepping in to lay all the lines!! We welcomed Dudley and his family for their first hunt – hopefully we’ll see them again! Jo-Jo was...
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Hunt Review: JHB 8 May 2011
Happy Mothers’ Day to all the Beagle Moms! We had about 40 beagles at our JHB hunt this morning… a few of which were new faces! The weather was great – if only it would stay just like this! Not too hot, and certainly not cold enough to be shivering and all wrapped up in layers of clothing! Here are a couple of photos from the morning (thanks...
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17 April JHB Hunt
Wow! Our first hunt 2 weeks ago was crazy hot and we had 75 beagles… and our hunt yesterday was cold and wet and our numbers had almost halved, to 35 beagles! Which is still a really big group! The grass was wet from days of continuous rain, the rocks were slippery and the beagles wasted no time at all in getting sopping wet while running through the long...
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First JHB Hunt of 2011 – 3 April
WOW!!! This was an absolute new record! We had about 75 beagles come to the hunt! SEVENTY FIVE! The amount of people and beagles was just absolutely phenomenal! Jane and Dana had the registration table set up and everyone was queuing to fill in forms and get a temporary bib etc… Jane, Dana, THANK YOU for your hard work sorting this out! (click on any picture...
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First JHB Raffle
Hi Everyone… as mentioned in the previous post, we are going to be having lots more fun events this season… the first of which will be a raffle for a cake. But not just any old chocolate cake you’d buy at a school cake sale! The cake is being generously donated by Poppadom and Roti’s mom, the amazingly talented pastry chef, Dilene, from...
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Hey Everyone… our next Walkhaven get together will be on Sunday 20 March, at about 2pm. We also need to get together to discuss the new season, so if you are involved in the admin/organising side of things (you know who you are!) please just be aware that we need to sort some things out for 2011. Hope to see you all there! Almost time for the 2011 Hunting...
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