When A Quiet Path Beckons We Take It
We live deep in the countryside of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France, an area best known to British visitors as the Dordogne but to the French as Périgord. It’s a picturesque area throughout...
We live deep in the countryside of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France, an area best known to British visitors as the Dordogne but to the French as Périgord. It’s a picturesque area throughout...
There’s nothing like doing end of year accounts to make me remember just how much I dislike sitting in front of a computer to input numbers and not words. I was a terrible maths...
Yesterday I received some wonderful photographs of Isobel the rescued dog who had been starved and kept for breeding, chained to a car for 8 years.(Read Isobel’s story here). She is progressing steadily, slowly...
Last week I wrote about 12 year old Aimee Wingstedt who took part in the BBC School Report. Aimee, together with her friend Olivia Hall, interviewed Bill Lambert, Health and Breeder Services Manager for...
When you hang around animal welfare issues you see a lot of upsetting things. Social media pages are full of distressing images and every rescue has pictures of animals for whom our hearts break....
I was recently contacted by 12 year old reader, Aimee Wingstedt from Cardiff, who had chosen puppy farming as the topic for the BBC’s Annual School Report. This is a BBC News and BBC...
I always have a nauseating feeling when it’s time for Crufts. I have several friends who enjoy going along for the shopping, the show, the agility, the total immersion in a love we all...
Three weeks ago I headed back to the UK for what has become a much-requested event, the Susie-Belle Memorial Walk at West Wittering. It’s such a touching thing for me, to know that by...
When Susie-Belle died I made a promise to her that I would continue to do all I can to help dogs who know the worst side of humans. I’m forever grateful that I got...
A little while ago a friend of mine asked me about a breeder in the south of England. A contact of hers had set their heart on a puppy of the ‘non-allergenic’ fashionable cross-breed...