Recently I’ve found myself getting involved in online discussions on people giving dogs up for rehoming and as expected, things get heated, points are made and misunderstood, opinions are aired and not appreciated, emotions...
Our summer stay in France is underway. We arrived mid-week after an uneventful night-drive down. We opted for an overnight drive as it’s been so hot recently we thought the dogs would appreciate the...
This is not the post that I’d been planning to put up this week. Where I’ve been enjoyably immersed in more bits and bobs on brains to follow this up, yesterday as I was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...