Miniature Schnauzer Fun Day
This Sunday we’re heading to Northampton as we’ve kindly been invited to the Miniature Schnauzer Fun Day to talk about puppy farming and Susie-Belle. We’ll all be going along to meet new and old...
Author: Janetta Harvey
The damage done by puppy farms goes beyond the obvious
By closely documenting Susie-Belle’s journey to her current state of emotional well-being, I have been able to look back in detail at the enormous progress that she has made in the 3 years that...
Book Review – Animal Madness
As I shared in my post yesterday, I’m currently immersed in and avidly reading some excellent works covering animal psychology, neuroscience and ethology. I’ve long been fascinated by these matters but my interest has...
Twinkle’s Inner Life
Before Susie-Belle came to us, I did a reasonable amount of reading, preparation and digging about making contacts with those who knew better in terms of the psychological problems that we might face that...
Paws on the Shore Fundraising Walk…safe to say, a success
Photo courtesy of Mike Jackson Yesterday we spent the day down at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve walking 6 miles for our fundraising event, Paws on the Shore. We were joined by lots of dogs...
Now it’s Twinkle’s turn
Ten days ago Twinkle managed to leap awkwardly out of the car and although I didn’t know it at the time, injure herself. It wasn’t until the next day that I noticed she was...
Release an idea and watch it fly….
A week ago I put a fundraising idea on the UK Schnauzer Forum to raise money for the forum’s Charity of the Year, the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre. It was there that Susie-Belle spent her...
A hot weekend of camping
We have just had our first camping weekend of the year and what a scorcher it was. This is a rare experience for us as readers of the blog and book will know; our...
Our trip to Whitlit
Yesterday we attended our first literary festival and what a treat it was. Whitlit took place in the charming seaside town of Whitstable on the Kent coast, a place that we have been promising to...
Twinkle and the rain
We’ve had a very wet winter and I have mentioned here before that Twinkle doesn’t react well to being wet – it’s beyond normal schnauzery-dislike of it – for her, rain drops falling seem...