Blog — Dogs

Although I retrained as a dog groomer in my 40's and have never regretted it I have always hankered over the freedom dog walkers have and the adoration they receive from their clients (of the canine variety). With the best will in the world the vast majority of my clients would rather not be bathed and pampered. They would much rather be on a lovely fun, full of smells, dog walk instead. With that in mind, and the fact I'm also quite nosy and like to find out about other peoples work with dogs, I thought I would take the...

Anyone who knows me will know I hate winter, the days are not long enough to get everything done, I hate having to wrap up, I much prefer flip flops and everything is so much harder. As a 3 dog household the worst issue is mud and the next is keeping the dogs from getting bored especially in Willows case as being a young collie she needs a lot of mental stimulation. We are quite fortunate, we have a busy household, there is generally someone around and something happening but even we need to be a bit inventive sometimes so I...

When we first got our rescue dog Willow, she came to us with a day or 2 supply of raw food. This was a first for me as I have always fed dry foods to my other dogs, plus scraps from the table. That led me to doing quite a lot of research, I found a lot of information from avid raw feeders arguing for it and an equal amount from vets and the such like arguing against it but I really didn't find much from normal people, like me, trying to work through the minefield of information! The theory...

I got up this morning and my son said to me 'Mum, Willow is moulting, there is fur everywhere in my bedroom' Now, she isn't meant to be upstairs but everyone in the house knows she sneaks up over night, the first thing you hear when you get up in the morning is her, running down the stairs and hopping over the stairgate into the dogs room!! She thinks we don't know! But today the evidence was clearer than ever! Hence the blog about moulting!​Contrary to popular belief there are actually quite a lot of dogs that either don't shed,...