I’m A Woman’s Hour Woman
On Thursday I got the chance to tell a few million people about puppy farming and how the industry harmed Susie-Belle and Twinkle. I was on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour. I could pretend to...
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Cerise the Complicated
This weekend marks four weeks of Cerise coming to live with us. In that time she’s made remarkable progress in many areas; her fears are subsiding daily and reading through some of my notes...
Susie-Belle’s Memorial Walk
This weekend will see us down at the beach, with others remembering Susie-Belle. It’s her Memorial Walk and for a dog that lived for years in a puppy farm and never walked more than...
Life’s For Playing With Is It Not?
‘She can do stairs’ was my celebratory cry to Michel this morning as I followed Cerise’s bottom heading down the staircase. It may seem a funny thing to be cheered by, but for a...
10 Days In The Life of Cerise
Cerise has been with us now for 10 days. Which means she’s been out of the puppy farm for 2 months. Two homes in 2 months have been her experiences outside of the concrete...
Cerise Rose arrives in our life
Cerise Rose has landed into her new life, and opened a new chapter in ours. She brings a sweetness that’s unmistakably sprinkled with flecks of Susie-Belle magic, as we have no doubt this is...
Come and meet the world Cerise Rose
Renae and Twinkle met Cerise Rose the other day. Their new sister. She’ll be coming home to us at Christmas, once a few health checks and details have been sorted out and we’ve returned...
Susie-Belle’s message continues
I know it may seem an odd thing to say, seeing as I’ve written two books about the life we share with our dogs, thus inviting thousands of strangers into our world, but, I’ve...
This is hard, but we knew it would be
There’s no easy way to work through grief, it’s the most painful, engulfing of emotions. Even when we know it’s coming. When we got Susie-Belle’s diagnosis 6 weeks ago I knew that we faced...
Susie-Belle may have left this life, but she’s not left me, and never will
Last night we had to let Susie-Belle slip off into a new and peaceful world without us by her side for the next stage of her soul’s journey. She didn’t suffer at all, this...