Posts by Hank

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, best boy!  Here are nine things I love about you. •  The way you quietly, patiently stare at a closed door you need me to open — like the Why did the chicken — or the dog, for that matter — cross the road?  When Kemba was a puppy, he and I worked with a dog trainer.  Neither of us — Kemba nor I — did that great.  The trainer was a perfectionist.  I wasn’t.  Dur…

We call these two Uncle Kemba and his nephew, Pickle, but in this video they look more like kissin’ cousins. 😍

Wait a minute, Rucky. Weren’t you just begging to go out?? Sometimes when Greg and Kelly both need to be away from their house, Greg will ask me to look in on Ruckus, let him out to pee, maybe play with him for awhile.  When …

For most of you, when you hear the word “Beagle,” you automatically associate it with “Snoopy.” Me?  I think “Ricky.”  Obviously. Ricky, as seen on my iPhone wallpaper Sure, over the last eight-plus years, Kemba has become my …

Jonathan the XIV: Official mascot of the UConn Huskies I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know when I say my UConn Huskies are National Champs!  For the FIFTH TIME since 1999!  Five national championships in 25 ye…

(Winhall, VT: 32 inches)                                                                  YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW BEAGLE MAN, KEMBA, AND RICKY ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM.

Don’t let those long skinny legs, ferociously wagging tail (accompanied by ferociously shaking butt), and innocent black eyes fool you: That one-year-old Pickle (before his somewhat sensitive male surgery) was quite the sex fiend.  Last summer — when he was just seven months old! — I saw him on t…

Confucius say: Dog who belongs to you will generally do what you say.  Dog who doesn’t, won’t. Is this 10-month old whippersnapper actually giving me a staredown? “Pickle, come,” I say. Pickle just stares at me.  I’m standing…

I told you, in last month’s post, how the Beagle Man wound up with a Duck Toller.  Which got me to wondering:  How did you all choose your best dog in the world? ROB & CHARLOTTE: SCOUT (4 yrs old) Scout: Impulse buy “In 2…