I have just come home from seeing three wonderful Border Collies. They are all rescues and like so many, two are from Ireland. So often Border Collies I visit, beloved family pets, also live a life of frustration, unable to use their clever brains or fulfill their instinct to herd. The loving Read more…
Second fear period and bad timing could be involved. The couple have two beautiful Labradors – black William and golden Sam. They can’t understand how the two dogs have turned out so differently when they both came from the same breeder. They say they have treated them both the same. Read more…
This photo doesn’t do justice to beautiful 15-month-old Border Collie Barney. Barney was re-homed by my lady client just two months ago and is becoming increasingly reactive to other dogs when out. When they first had him he was playing with them. He also has started to bark at people.[divider Read more…
Beautiful eighteen month old Chocolate Labrador Oscar was a difficult puppy. They admit they spoilt him and by the time he was four months old they found him hard to cope with – stealing, grabbing, nipping and so on, so they took him to puppy classes. Oscar has been Read more…
Heidi is yet another rescue dog from Ireland. A mixed breed with some collie in her, she is around one year old and has been in her new home since last March. The poor puppy had been found with wire tied around her muzzle – there are the scars – Read more…
Reggie is seven months old, but to look at him you would never think he was little more than a puppy. He has been hard work from when he arrived at eight weeks old. He is one of the most frantically hyped-up and restless dogs I have seen for a Read more…
I met Ozzy today, a beautiful one year old black labrador of gun dog pedigree. I should not have used my flash because Ozzy looks like a ghost! Humans get “red-eye” from the reflection off of our blood vessels in the retina. Dogs have a special layer of cells at the back Read more…