Book Launch Time…
Time to tell everyone about the book launch for Saving Maya. The great news is that the official release date has been brought forward so we can do what we really hoped to be...
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Inside The Puppy Trade From Start to Finish
Last week TV viewers across the UK were offered a shocking insight into the realities of the modern puppy trade in the BBC Panorama programme ‘Puppy Dealers Exposed’. Reporter Sam Poling whose previous work...
Beware The Puppy Dealers
The rough end of the puppy breeding industry is a world inhabited by puppy dealers who in today’s booming, poorly regulated puppy market are making huge sums of money and duping thousands of puppy...
Book Review: The Dog Merchants
The Dog Merchants by Kim Kavin, published by Pegasus Books Next week sees the publication of The Dog Merchants, written by journalist Kim Kavin. It’s a book that explores in depth the complex nature...
How Best To Tackle The Puppy Trade?
There’s recently been an opportunity for everyone to contribute to the UK government’s consultations into the breeding, selling and welfare of animals. Reading the submissions what’s clear is that all the major organisations know...
Once a dog in a puppy farm…look at her now…
As a dog from a puppy farm, Cerise is doing well. She’s been in our life now for 3 months and out of the puppy farm for 5. Overall her progress towards living as...
Freeing the words by sharing the sorrow
I’m caught in a phase of my life where loss and mourning, accompany me a little too tightly for my liking. Despite writing about my life with our dogs, I am at heart, a...
The Biggest Show of Hypocrisy & Betrayal
‘The biggest dog show on earth’ is how the Kennel Club describe Crufts. The biggest show of hypocrisy is what I call it. Now, while I know there are some fun things that go...
Word By Word We Go
The final editing of ‘Saving Maya’ is almost at an end. It’s always an exhausting process as I scour every word and piece of punctuation, checking for errors and trying to craft the best,...
Cavaliers Take The Prize…
When it comes to inherited health problems, Cavaliers take the prize. As the Kennel Club (KC) prepares for the start of Crufts on Thursday the organisation is coming under increasing pressure to take meaningful...