Cute and Fluffy? Try Dead and Dirty
It would be a peculiar person that tried to argue that puppies are not adorable, cute and fluffy. Thousands of pets for sale adverts flooding the internet show that pictures of puppies rarely fail...
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Love Is Not Enough – part 2
Adopting a dog requires thought and planning. Understanding that sharing life with a rescue dog is a privilege, not a right is a good starting point. It can sometimes be difficult to automatically get...
Resilient Mabel
When breeding dogs leave puppy farms it’s the start of them being able to live proper lives. But for a dog whose whole existence has been in a noisy, noxious place of confinement with...
She’s a Survivor
To the puppy farmer who confined her to a life full of fear, I want to say that you did not break her. You harmed her, you neglected her, you profited from her for...
An Angel has Arrived
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...
Inside The UK’s Puppy Farm Capital
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...
Where Life Gets Going
Everything is bewildering to dogs when they first leave a puppy farm. All is new in the outside world. While being lifted from the darkness of a breeding shed is good for them, it’s...
More than Walter Left The Puppy Farm That Day
Walter was born in a Welsh puppy farm. He spent years there. He wasn’t one of the lucky ones. He didn’t get out young. He wasn’t sold into the puppy trade, bought young, loved...
It’s No Small Gift
When 5 month old Albert Claude breezed into our world he brought with him a canine vibrancy and innocence that had faded in my mind in recent times. Having lived for the past 8...
Retirement By The Sea Beckons
Susie-Belle came into my life in the summer of 2011. I knew she’d bring changes, I knew these would be good. But what I could never have guessed when I trawled the internet looking...