Reasons to think about how to find your new best friend
When we decide to bring a dog into our lives, a lot of people go puppy buying, they don’t head over to their local animal rescue centre to look for their new friend. This,...
Category: Puppy Farming
Tinkering around is just that, tinkering
Members of the Pet Industry Federation include big names in the pet business, names like Pets at Home, who, do not sell puppies or kittens, as they are keen to tell everyone, and I’m...
We’ve gone viral – apparently
I just had a message from Dog By Dog which is the subject of the article I wrote for One Green Planet. Read more on
Don’t Buy the Lies
With just a week, before Christmas settles upon us and presents await opening in homes across the UK, I’ve been reflecting on the mixed emotions this time of year brings for those of us...
Dogs Are Not Presents
In recent weeks, campaigners against puppy farming and commercially driven dog breeding have been upping their efforts to convince the buying public not to buy pets at this time of year. Those, like me,...
The market in puppies is a dismal one for the dogs
It’s been an interesting week since Discover Dogs and I’ve had to do a lot of thinking and grappling with strong emotions raised by seeing the current dismal situation for dogs. After last weekend...
Dog By Dog Documentary
A few months ago I stumbled across a trailer for a documentary being made in the US. Immediately I was grabbed by the potential impact the film, “Dog By Dog”, will have on the...
Twinkle update
Goodness, it’s been too long since I wrote a post here, for that I apologise, the only reason being I’m immersed now in writing my next book and have been juggling time and commitments....
Fire destroys dogs home
Yesterday morning I woke up to the news that a suspected arson attack had destroyed Manchester Dogs Home. One of the oldest and largest rescues in the country, it was founded in 1893 and...