Operation Bring Beau Home

In 2008, Dogs with Blogs worldwide are uniting to help bring Beau home.


Beau was stolen from his home in Guanaba, Queensland, Australia on 1 July 2003. Beau's Mum has not stopped looking for him since.

Beau is a registered English Setter, a fairly rare breed of dog in Australia. If you know of anyone who has purchased, found or obtained an adult male English Setter since July 2003, please visit Beau's website and look at all his photos.

Beau is an Orange Belton in colour - this means that he has orange/tan markings through his coat and tail and spots on his face an legs. The rest of his coat is white (not cream or red). His fur is short on his body and face with longer 'feathering' fur on his ears, legs, tail and tummy (although this longer hair might be clipped off).

Beau has a very distinctive face: he has a lot of orange/tan colouring and freckle like spots on his face , hazel eyes, a small pink mark in the bottom corner of one eye where the pigment is missing, and most disitinctive is his HEART SHAPED NOSE.

English Setters are medium sized dogs - about the same size as a Golden Retriever or Labrador.

Beau was micro-chipped and unsterilized when he was stolen (he may have been sterilized since then).

Beau's mum has searched Australia wide and has borrowed thousands and thousands of dollars for newspaper and magazine advertisements, flyers, leaflets, brouchures and mass mailings to vets, dog businesses, dog rescue groups, pounds, shelters, dog groomers, dog friendly accomodation and many other places Australia wide.

Beau's mum is offering a$10,000 REWARD for the safe return of Beau, no questions asked. Beau's mum just wants him back.

To read more about Beau and his Mum's desperate attempts to find him, please visit his website Finding Beau

You can even download and print this Finding Beau Flyer to put up on your local noticeboard.

These youtube.com are about Beau and his mum's efforts to find him.





Beau's brother Hammer has a blog where you can be kept up to date on what is happening inthe search for Beau.

Trooper Taj, reporting for duty. Operation Bring Beau Home.

Please help spread the word and return Beau to his mum in 2008!

How to Hypnotize a Border Collie

In order to hypnotize a Border Collie, you need two things. The Border Collie (of course) and the all important magical, alluring hypnotizing tug-toy!

First of all, you start waving the tug toy to get his attention....
(this step usually takes less than .0897 seconds to execute).

Then you move tug-toy left and right like this....

Then you pull it up and down like this....

....so your Border Collie looks like this.....

Then you spin the tug-toy around like this...

It won't be long before the Border Collie starts to do this....

And when he starts to look like this, you know you have...

...a tug-toy hypnotized Border Collie!

Disclaimer: No Border Collies or magical, alluring hypntotizing tug-toys were injured in the making of this blog post, however, the photographer is still feeling dizzy.

Tia - The Dog Fairy and a tricky video

I know everyone likes to see photos of Tia as well as me, so I thought we would do a post just for Tia, although Mum says Tia's a lot harder to photograph than I am (Ed: photographers nightmare - tiny eyes, black fur, wrinkles and camera shy!).

Here's a video of Tia doing tricks - "high five", "gimme ten", "drop" "shake hands". I was only a baby then and you can see me sticking my head in the way:)

This is Tia being the Dog Fairy

I don't think she was very impressed.

Here she is doing the 'Hippo Face'

Mum says this is one of the nicest photos she has taken of Tia.

And another one.

Wing nut ears!

Isn't she pretty, wrinkles and all?

Whhheeeee!!! I can Walk on Water!

I had the best-est, most fun-est day yesterday! It was so hot, so Mum took me and the kids to a little river we have close to home, and I know I'm pretty clever (being a Border Collie and all), but look at me, I can actually WALK ON WATER!!!

Turbo Taj - Super Star!
(Ed: other than minor cropping of the background, this photo is straight out of the camera)

This is what this great place looks like, Mum says its even prettier in winter and you can see what it looks like if you have a look at the pictures of Solar the Siberian in her "Dogs" set in her Flickr.com album.

I tried to catch some little fish, but they were pretty quick!


I got to swim and swim and swim some more!


(Ed: Cue theme song from Jaws)


I'm not sure what happened to the rest of me, but its attached to my tail somewhere!



Mum thought I was noble looking, but I was really just eyeing off the ducks.



Border Collies are much better than Retrieving Water Spaniels!


The Face Plant was, of course, intentional.



I had to keep an eye on my kids though, just for a second at a time. I had the major zoomies and couldn't stop running and jumping and swimming. Mum said I got a bit silly and she had to put the retractable lead on me to spoil all my fun.



Nobody told me that there were holes in the water, but they all laughed when I fell in.



I even got to chase dragonflies!


I barked and barked...


and chased them some more...


I got so excited chasing the dragonflies that I fell in the water.



Mum said the only time my feet were still was when I did this....


...and this.



The one good thing about being on the retractable lead was that mum could reel me in,
those underwater rocks sure were slippery!

Mum said that she would have had another 500 or so photos to share with you all, but she was laughing so hard, most of them turned out blurry.

Its great to see all my friends adding their funny photos to our competition, my mum and dad sure are laughing lots!

Woofs,

Taj

Happy New Year - And Its competition time!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I hope everypup and every human had a safe night - and nobody got scared by the fireworks!

To celebrate the New Year, my mum and dad are holding two new competitions that are free to enter for Dog Lovers everywhere!

The first competition starting today is for a prize of a $100 (AUD) Amazon shopping Gift Card for the Dogsites member that makes the most forum posts from 1st January 2008 to 30th March 2008. How cool is that! Join in the discussion forum, learn some new doggy things, share your doggy experiences, meet new doggy friends, have some fun AND you get the chance to win this great prize!!!

The second competition is a photography competition and the theme is "Funny Photo". The funniest Dog photos will be chosen by Dogsites visitors using a rating vote system, so make sure you tell all your friends to come along and vote for your photos! The prizes are awesome and include an original 9"x12" Pet Portrait of your dog created by my Mum (who's a multi award winning animal and wildlife artist), a years subscription to the excellent dog magazine, National Dog, and a $50.00 gift voucher for Amazon.com.

Now what dog lover couldn't resist these competitions?

To find out more about these great competitions, please visit

PS: You can see my Dog Page while your there!

Woofs and Tailwags

Turbo Taj