All about Claire B

Claire B is Beagle Welfare's Fund Raising Officer and has been a volunteer for Beagle Welfare for over 5 years firstly organising a fundraising walk in Nottingham which has become an annual event and is attended by many beagles and their owners every year.
Claire became an area officer for BW in 2010, helping to find and check out new owners for the beagles and helping out with foster care for numerous beagles over the years, one of which actaully ate her way through a fridge door and its contents, although never repeated this with her owner once she was adopted.
Claire has known and loved beagles all her life as her parents had one when she was born, with a son of her own now, who seems equally smitten with them.
The adorable Dora was Claire's first beagle all of her own and loved to chew on just about anything from reading glasses to the odd christmas tree she loved eating biro's particularly on Claire's new pale carpets and will refuse to go outside when its raining even at 7 years old preferring to wee on the kitchen floor rather than brave the elements! Dora likes a good duvet particularly when its on Claire's bed always insisting on crawling under the duvet and laying all her weight on Claire's legs!
Then came Alfie, a very popular name for beagles - I've lost count how many Alfie's have gone through BW in the short time that I've been involved. Anyway back to Claire's Alfie, a beautiful, if somewhat anxious lad who does have separation anxiety issues and once even put himself into a coma. As usual, a greedy boy enjoying poo and also notes of money, but very soppy and loyal and is amazing off lead - not that common with our breed of hound! Alfie is incredibly protective particularly taking a dislike to the window cleaner, postman, a guy who walked past him whilst waiting to pick up an indian takeaway, oh and an old lady dressed in red who he thought was the postman!
In true pack style, Dora and Alfie are a double act when it comes to naughtiness, once whilst on Sutton on Sea beach, Alfie spotted a child sitting eating his lunch so ran in grabbed the bag, shook a pastie out and into the air for Dora to catch and eat it, Dora is quite happy to scavenge alone once helping herself to a fisherman's lunch pack too,
And then there is the loveable cuddlebum that is Lola, only reently adopted by Claire, Quite a solemn little lady but full of selfless love, Claire and co are just loving having Lola in their lives.

Training for the WHW is CRAZY, being mighty competitive, she considers Clare and her endless miles as a real challenge but I'm sure Claire B will triumph over Clare C at some point before we go live!, The other good news is that her Alfie has lost 1lb in the five weeks since training began.

This is not Claire's first personal challenge for BW as last year she managed to raise lots of money doing the National Three Peaks Challenge climbing the three highest mountains in England Scotland and Wales in just over 24 hours - now that is one MAD BEAGLE LADY!

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