Friday 13th lived up to its reputation. It showed its grim misfortune as a day not-to-be-forgotten for my close friend Kathleen. Her dog Schnapps, ‘normal’ sister to three damaged, ex-breeding schnauzer sisters was let...
I was a little surprised last week to be contacted by Tom Burrington, Assistant Editor of Dog World magazine, with compliments about this blog post. My surprise came as the facts in it are...
Educating the puppy buying public about the cruel reality of today’s breeding industry is the one thing which every one who cares, can do. There’s no excuse once we know about the problem, why...
Traditionally January is a month of sales and bargain grabs. And when it comes to books this is the time of year I tend to restock my ‘to be read’ pile for the year...
Just before Christmas a jaw-dropping statement was made during a radio interview. It involved the UK’s main animal welfare charities and the Kennel Club. As someone who, along with others has long criticised the...
Christmas is a busy time for those making money in the puppy market and a bad time for those of us wanting it to shrivel away to nothing. Any publicity that can disrupt sales...
‘Saving Maya’ has always been more than a book to me. It represents the combined efforts of many people to bring the truth about many puppies being sold today out to a younger audience....
The first anniversary is here. Susie-Belle died a year ago. It seems longer some days as I scrabble to remember, to hang onto what it felt like to stroke her, to walk, with her...
It’s been a busy week, mostly spent hammering out words for my self-imposed month-long NaNoWriMo challenge. It’s not going well, which doesn’t surprise me as it’s a complete reverse way of writing to how...
If I suggested being like an Icelander, I wonder what springs to mind? Before I go down a road of stereotyping a nation of just over 300,000 people, I’ll mention just one great, Icelandic...