Waking in the night – six times. The poor lady is waking in the night up to six times to take Beagle Dexter into the garden. He toilets (poo) most times. Then, long before dawn, Dexter’s day has started. He looks for something to wreck. The lady is exhausted. She has two Read more…
Five year old Golden Labrador Milly has to be just about as near the perfect dog any family could wish for. She is sweet and gentle with their four-year-old boy who, thanks to his parents, treats her with unusual respect for such a young child. She is perfect apart from just one Read more…
The dictionary definition of pica in medicine is the “pathological craving for substance unfit for food” Dictionary.com. I would hardly interpret Wilson’s ingesting of inappropriate items as a ‘craving’. It’s not constant. From my questioning the behaviour is likely to happen under certain circumstances. Five weeks ago the wonderful young Bernese Mountain Read more…
I have just been to two five-month-old siblings. Before the family picked them up about four weeks ago, despite being brother and sister each puppy had had a very different life. They are Canaans, a rare and ancient breed. Lapidos is confident and friendly, Leah is afraid of everything – of people Read more…
Alfie is a seven-year-old Mastiff Staffie mix who spent the first eleven weeks of his life in a shed with other dogs but no human contact. When they picked him up he was riddled with worms, had mange and colitis. He was a very sick puppy with no socialisation whatsoever. Read more…