Love Is Not Enough – part 1
When thinking about adopting a dog from a breeding background, it’s vital to keep the dog’s previous life firmly in mind. Adopting any dog involves a number of unknowns but for breeding dogs the...
Author: Janetta Harvey
Far from shore – is that how it feels?
The other day I was out walking with Cerise. Just the two of us. It’s rare that Cerise goes anywhere without a sibling. As we headed out from home I wondered how she’d fare...
Not Quite The Year We Planned
It’s now nine months since a simple idea I had 6 years ago and £250,000 later became a registered charity. Schnauzerfest was a fundraising idea to get people walking their dogs with friends. We...
Not For Profit Vet Makes History
Since coming to live in France full time one major difference I’ve noticed with the vet care for our animals is the much lower cost here compared to the UK. It’s drastically different, which...
Writing For Addis
Earlier in the year I agreed to write a blog for Addis, a British housewares company which is supporting the work of Schnauzerfest. To have an opportunity to educate a non-dog focussed audience was...
Book Review: Wag
I get excited by books. I have more books in my home than I’m ever likely to read. When my ‘to be read’ piles – they’re more like stacks – threaten to topple over,...
Emergency Fund For Rescues
Earlier this year, Schnauzerfest became an affiliate member of the Association of Dogs and Cats Home. Little did we know that our first year as a registered charity would find us in the turmoil...
What Makes A Fosterer?
What makes someone become a fosterer? To foster a dog means to take a vulnerable, dependent animal into your home, to nurture them, allow yourself to fall a little, or a lot in love,...
Where Do I Start?
I haven’t known where to start writing a blog since I did the last one. Every day I’ve sat down to do it and it’s proved impossible. I couldn’t hang onto any clarity, or...
Resilient Mabel
When breeding dogs leave puppy farms it’s the start of them being able to live proper lives. But for a dog whose whole existence has been in a noisy, noxious place of confinement with...