Hope in a ‘house of horror’
When I visited Hope Rescue in April, I learned many things from people who see first-hand the cruelty of today’s dog breeding industry. It’s one thing to read about dogs taken from places not...
Author: Janetta Harvey
Albert’s little road trip
It seems like quite a while now but it was just two weeks ago that Albert Claude and I were on a road trip back to the UK. It was a quick decision to...
Do you know what you were doing?
Yesterday a Facebook memory popped up and reminded me what I was doing exactly ten years ago. Quite similar, weirdly, to what I am now doing, a decade on. Only this time I am...
Sunday rambling
I’ve written before about how busy May is for us and this year it’s more of the same. From a slow Spring, the garden has suddenly sprung into action as we find ourselves in...
Can she live with dogs?
Can cats and dogs live together? Something I am asked whenever I post a photo on social media of Cosette. Cosette rules the house. She is a splendid cat to live with dogs as...
Pictures, pictures everywhere
This time of year has come to involve me looking at a lot of photos of dogs. Not mine, other people’s dogs. And when I say a lot, I mean a LOT. Hundreds of...
Megan: a dog with the courage of a lion
I first came to know about Megan in the summer of 2021. She was around 8 or 9 years old and had lived a life of neglect. When taken in by Friends of Rescue,...
Regulating Online Pet Sales
With a woeful lack of regulation in the online sale of pets, I attended a recent meeting not expecting to hear much good news.
Hope gets me out of home
I rarely leave home these days as I don’t enjoy travelling and have little sense of adventure. I prefer the familiar and am a dedicated homebody with a lifelong tendency to enjoy my own...
When A Walk Is Much More
This month we’ve been supporting the Schnauzerfest awareness campaign: Spring Forward For Schnauzerfest. It’s a celebration of getting out on daily walks, giving dogs the freedoms and joys that come from this. Sharing the...