Janetta Harvey Author, Blogger and Campaigner

Time passes too fast

I came across a thought provoking article this week by Karen London in The Bark Magazine where she talks about the brevity of the lives we share with our dogs. Her piece was inspired by a...

Laughing at us….

I’ve been struggling to write this blog post for quite a while as I’ve been battling to sort out the many conflicts I have going round in my head and how best to explain the...

“Still I Rise”

In early drafts of the book’s manuscript there were several extracts of poems and passages from various pieces of writing that I particularly like that illustrated aspects of Susie-Belle’s story. As the writing process...

The nose knows

In a fascinating recently published study, researchers have found that for our dogs, the smell of us triggers the part of the brain strongly associated with pleasurable expectations. Although the paper is predictably complicated...

Spring may well have sprung

Today is the warmest and sunniest of the year by far. It’s beautiful here and after the grim wet winter we’ve been through, it’s great to have had a few dry days and even...

Twinkle’s first year

  Today marks the first year anniversary of Twinkle-Berry coming to live with us, so she has been out of the puppy farm for 13 months as she spent a month with Janet being...

Flip Flops in February

It’s Valentine’s Day and although we tend to ignore it, not being very keen on a lot of overt display of commercialism, it has presented me with a timely justification of a special pair of...