Why New Is Good
When we adopted Susie-Belle it was all new, for her and us. She had no concept of what life with us would be like. Or indeed life anywhere beyond the safety of the rescue...
When we adopted Susie-Belle it was all new, for her and us. She had no concept of what life with us would be like. Or indeed life anywhere beyond the safety of the rescue...
Today Schnauzerfest launches a new campaign to raise awareness and funds for puppy farm rescue dogs. The One Pound One Pawstep campaign seeks to encourage people to collect small change through the year and...
Two weeks ago I was on my way to the UK to collect Angel. She was in the care of the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre. It was a trip that would give me...
When Susie-Belle died I had an urgent sense that a new dog must join us and we adopted Cerise 6 weeks later. When Twinkle died in July I felt in no hurry to get...
When I adopted Susie-Belle in 2011 she’d spent 6 months living with Janet, her foster mum. Janet is the manager of the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre but the care given to Susie-Belle went...
In January this year I said on TV that Schnauzerfest had raised £126,000. It’s an astounding amount of money for a purely volunteer charitable effort to raise. Nobody involved with Schnauzerfest from the start,...
This time last year, Schnauzerfest supporter, Aimee, at the time 13 years old invited Alun Cairns MP, Seretary of State for Wales to join her for the Barry Island Schnauzerfest Walk. He attended, took...
After days of heatwave the morning Twinkle died it was raining. The irony wasn’t wasted on me. When she arrived in our life in February 2013 she had a phobic response to rain. Her...
Back in May, in Susie-Belle’s memory I launched a fundraiser to help the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre with a major project which has been in the planning for a few years. To rebuild...
Even when my heart is dark and heavy, weighed down by grief at Twinkle’s death I smile at the joy radiating from the brother she’s left behind.