Keep Calm & Love your Beagle: Intro

As I write this today in South Africa we are on day 4 of our nationwide 21 day lockdown and already we are receiving messages from people saying they are feeling depressed and anxious being couped up. They say their dogs can clearly feel the stress and tension and the games and mental stimulation ideas are wearing thin. 

Last year we started working with Helen Hansen and we came up with an idea for a workshop for owners who struggle with their dogs. All that attended had dogs with anxiety problems and they had tried all behavioural routes so they were keen to see how we could help. We put together a package of vibration and frequency. Helen with her Kinesiology and Bach Remedy expertise and myself the knowledge of crystals and their healing properties. We had positive feedback from all and it led to the idea for this series. 

I have not found myself able to "give" these videos to you. I've been holding onto them as though I was holding onto Fudge. I feel now is the time to let go. David and myself also lost Solomon to cancer just a week later. He collapsed the day after Fudge. The four of us as well as Ariel and Bailey have put our hearts and souls into Beagle in Mind. We have been working towards softer, more gentle and holistic ways to build bonds with your dogs. 

These videos are the start of something that we have been working on since 2015. 

Thank you to Fudge and Solomon for driving us. May you be peaceful wherever you are and may you help every Beagle mom and dad out there learn to love and understand their Beagle-kid as they need to be understood. 

You are in our hearts and souls. We miss you xxx

I could just stick up the video, most people won't even read this far down. I do feel the need to tell the story, for my own emotions. These videos were filmed in August 2020. It had been a dream of mine for a long time that some day Fudge will be our model dog to film educational videos and finally that dream came true. The ball had started rolling and after filming these the ideas were flowing for 2020. 

Unfortunately the universe had other plans for Fudge. 8 days after filming he passed away. 2 days before filming his breathing changed and the vet thought it was bronchitis. 5 days of antibiotics and I was not happy with there being no change so I made an appointment to have his chest xrayed the following morning. Fudge never came back home with me. The xray showed his lungs to be riddled with cancer. They put him on oxygen and I sat with him. That night he went into respiratory arrest whilst I was with him. I held him, stroked him, looked him in the eyes as he took his last breath. 

Fudge passed 1 month before his 12th birthday. We released this video on his birthday.