My Naughty Beagle

I am writing this post from the desk in my husband's study using his Mac rather than my laptop which I normally use. Why are you using your husband's Mac you ask? Well that would be because the other evening, one of my dogs Brandon decided he was going to be a naughty boy and chewed through my laptop power cable. As a result the battery on my laptop is now flat so I can't use it. I went to the shops today to see how much a new power cable would cost and it is going to cost me a whopping $99!!! This dog is costing me a small fortune!! To the right is the culprit...

Brandon is now 4 years old and looking back over the last 4 years I don't even want to think about all the money he has cost us with the things he has destroyed. Some examples are...chewing through the surround sound speaker cables, chewing and ripping a hole in our nice couch (which still to this day hasn't been fixed because it is so bad the whole thing will need to be re-upholstered. Luckily the back cushion hides it!), chewing the electrical cable and insulation pipe to our air conditioner, too many socks, bras, undies and tea towels to count, ripping to shreds numerous dog beds, chewing the wood off the bottom of our dressers and the list goes on and on. And the other day Brandon decided it would be fun to steal a wooden spoon and eat it. Needless to say for the next days he was pooing and vomitting wood chips (mostly at 1am, 3am and so on). We actually have 2 beagles - the other one is named Alex and he is very well behaved. He doesn't steal things or destroy things. We got lucky with one of them I suppose!

Here is a pic of our 2 boys in a more "tender" moment. They can be good boys sometimes...