Asalei Beagles

Sometimes, it’s very hard to face the fact that life must go on. Unfortunately, it must, and without Sally and Leia in it. It’s been nearly 12 months since we lost Leia, and 7 months since we lost Sally. I still can’t think about them without getting teary. I certainly can’t look at photos of[…]

  In memory of Sally & Leia Ison, the original Two Small Puppies. They spent their entire lives together, and now will be together forever over Rainbow Bridge. We passed so many milestones with Sally and Leia by our side – we bought a house, we got married, we moved house, we sold a house,[…]

  Life can be so cruel. I can’t believe here I am, 4 months after losing Leia, that I’m now paying tribute to our beautiful Sally “Wally Wals” Ison. Our beautiful sisters. The ones responsible for all this. On the Thursday before Christmas, Sally was devastatingly diagnosed with Lymphoma. The vet informed us she had[…]

… and the pain is still unbelievably strong. When people spoke about their “heart dogs”, I just thought I loved each of my dogs. Well, I do, but maybe in different ways. Andrew and I both feel a huge sense of loss with Leia being gone. It’s so quiet at home, our arms don’t have[…]

Where do I start? The past few weeks have been tough, and at no stage did I think we’d have to be saying good bye to our sweet heart Leia, or Bears to us. On the 17th August, 2017, the shining light in our lives, left us for Rainbow Bridge. Leia was 10 years, 8 months,[…]

If you’ve been following my posts on the blog, our little “Tan Head”, or Dinnies to us, can now Officially be know as Australia Champion Asalei Monkey Shenanigans (AI). Dinnies is a very sound dog, with lovely sound movement, reaching side gait, solid topline, gorgeous pleading expression, and a gay tail. The gay tail let[…]

Keeper and Oscar have both continued their winning ways recently with classes in group and Keeper converting one to a Reserve Neuter in Show under a Beagle Specialist! Oscar continues to consistently receive the reserve challenges behind two Supreme Champions and has on a few occasions, beaten his Grandmother for Runner Up Best of Breed![…]

  Being behind the camera most of the time, there are never really photos of me with my dogs, other than selfies and dog show win photos. Nearly 10 years ago, Alicia and Alex Kennison from (then) Savvy Studios photographed our wedding on the 07/07/07. I desperately wanted our little girls in the photos, but[…]

Now the weather is starting to cool down, it’s time to start hitting some shows! We ventured to Durack last weekend for the Western Suburbs Kennel Club shows under an international panel. My boys did me proud and came away with some frilly ribbons. Ch & Neut Ch Beagelee Keep The Spirit “Keeper” was Neuter in Group under Mrs[…]

This year will be the first year in 7 years that I haven’t made the trek to Sydney for their specialties. I do kind of feel like I’m missing out, but I can’t selfishly expect my husband to drive to Sydney and back over 4 days when he’s been working 60+ hour weeks for quite[…]