Life ends, but love is eternal
When we bring a dog into our life we know we will experience loss. If we allow ourselves to love, as we should, we will grieve. The greater the love we’ve felt along the...
Category: Schnauzerfest
Pup Crawl Anyone?
As Britain and France resurface from lockdown, families, friends and colleagues are resuming meeting up for drinks and meals. Café culture is embedded in French society, dating back to at least the seventeenth century....
Creating and keeping memories
I’ve been going through photographs recently. It began as a task to find one for the cover of the 2022 Schnauzerfest Calendar. Having Susie-Belle there has become a tradition. Each year when I’m asked...
Peace for Clemmie on a blind horizon
What must it be like to lie unseen and unseeing on a hard and dirty floor? Not for a night or two, but for years. Your ears filling with constant noise. The sounds coming...
With Hope For Teddy
Rescue work is gruelling. It’s expensive to do the right thing. Rescues rely on the generosity of people, most of whom who will never meet the dogs whose lives they help to save.
A Year I Won’t Forget
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.~ Maya Angelou How many times have I thought and read, that 2020 has been a year like no...
Not Quite The Year We Planned
It’s now nine months since a simple idea I had 6 years ago and £250,000 later became a registered charity. Schnauzerfest was a fundraising idea to get people walking their dogs with friends. We...
Writing For Addis
Earlier in the year I agreed to write a blog for Addis, a British housewares company which is supporting the work of Schnauzerfest. To have an opportunity to educate a non-dog focussed audience was...
Emergency Fund For Rescues
Earlier this year, Schnauzerfest became an affiliate member of the Association of Dogs and Cats Home. Little did we know that our first year as a registered charity would find us in the turmoil...
What Makes A Fosterer?
What makes someone become a fosterer? To foster a dog means to take a vulnerable, dependent animal into your home, to nurture them, allow yourself to fall a little, or a lot in love,...