so I thought we'd share them with evryone. Jazz and Dixie are not quite sure about cats - curious but scared. A lot of doggie friends have warned us about the feline kind.
We were tagged by our good friends over at AO4 to answer some very important questions.
1.Where is your favorite place to sleep??
We both like to sleep on the sofa and if mum or dad are on there already we sneak in from behind and try to push them off!
2. Is there a specific trick your humans make you do to get treats??
Yes, we have to sit, give both paws one after another, lie down and wait!!! This is pure torture for a beagle!
3.If you could spend an entire day doing anything at all with anyone what would you do and with whom??
Well, we would have to say either going on an outing to some great dog run (our favourite is Dog Field) with mum and dad or going to one of the many pet cafes around here with mum.
4. What is your favorite toy?
Jazz: My loofah puppy! I love soft toys that I can dig on and get the white snow out of!
Dixie: One of my pull toys that I can either swing and shake about my head like a crazed animal or persuade mum or dad to play tug of war with me!
5. If you could change one thing in your life, what would you change??
We are pretty happy dogs but would love for mum to be “on holidays” forever so we could spend lots and lots of time with her. 
This post is for Dave over at AO4 who loves watermelon. We were telling him about some crazy shaped and obseenly priced watermelons on sale here in Japan. Well I was in a very posh fruit shop today (just looking!!) and just happened to see those fruits in question. There were square watermelons, three and four sided pyramid shaped ones, snowman shaped ones and the most ridiculous of all was one like a giant dice with the dots indented into the watermelon. These melons were priceless but after seeing the cost of two mangoes from Okinawa ￥31,500 (US$260, A$295, GBP126) I didn't dare ask about the price of them which I read in a newspaper artitle could be up to ￥25,000. Fruit in general in Japan is on the pricey side but this is taking it all a bit too far! These would make for one very expensive watermelon slushie, Dave!
, a banana and a peach into it and blended it all up to a nice smoothie consistency. Of course we all had to try that before I poured out some into containers to freeze them. Several hours later and after a hot sticky walk I presented them to the girls and boy did they love them. Dixie even tried to chew up the Tupperware! So I guess they were a hit and very simple to make. Thanks to all you Frosty Paw doggies out there for the inspiration!
Yesterday the girls and I went for lunch at Pet Love Cafe for the first time. We've used the indoor dog run there before but today we decided to sample some things from the lunch menu. I had taco rice and the girls each had a sweet potato bone shaped cake. They shared the first one and I set aside the second one so I could eat my lunch. Jazz sat patiently for some time at the table across from me knowing the cake was there just waiting to be eaten! The temptation proved too much for her so I gave in a devided up the second cake between them. After lunch we played in the dog run where Jazz and Dixie met an young, very playfull Irish Terrier.
Not sure how many kilometers we walked but we were walking for about 2.5 hours! Now everyone is relaxing in airconditioned comfort!
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Jazz and Dixie are very playful Beagles! At home they are often rough housing together, in the dog run Jazz chases Dixie till she catches her, and at school they both have lots of friends they like to play with. From these great photos I can see what they have been up to during the day at school. (Click on the pics to get a larger view.)
