Janetta Harvey Author, Blogger and Campaigner

Book Review – Animal Madness

As I shared in my post yesterday, I’m currently immersed in and avidly reading some excellent works covering animal psychology, neuroscience and ethology. I’ve long been fascinated by these matters but my interest has...

Twinkle’s Inner Life

Before Susie-Belle came to us, I did a reasonable amount of reading, preparation and digging about making contacts with those who knew better in terms of the psychological problems that we might face that...

Now it’s Twinkle’s turn

Ten days ago Twinkle managed to leap awkwardly out of the car and although I didn’t know it at the time, injure herself. It wasn’t until the next day that I noticed she was...

Release an idea and watch it fly….

A week ago I put a fundraising idea on the UK Schnauzer Forum to raise money for the forum’s Charity of the Year, the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre. It was there that Susie-Belle spent her...

A hot weekend of camping

We have just had our first camping weekend of the year and what a scorcher it was. This is a rare experience for us as readers of the blog and book will know; our...

Our trip to Whitlit

Yesterday we attended our first literary festival and what a treat it was. Whitlit took place in the charming seaside town of  Whitstable on the Kent coast, a place that we have been promising to...

Twinkle and the rain

We’ve had a very wet winter and I have mentioned here before that Twinkle doesn’t react well to being wet – it’s beyond normal schnauzery-dislike of it – for her, rain drops falling seem...

We’re a’talking at WhitLit

Not long now till we head to the beautiful seaside town of Whitstable on the Kent coast to take part in the inaugural Whitstable Literary Festival. Susie-Belle and I are going to be interviewed...