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Don’t Show the Health Visitor

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

 

Captured a lovely moment between dog and baby today. 
Dogs have shown little interest in the baby on the whole but today Sprocket decided to see if she was up for a game of fetch.
On a Health and Safety note, I did monitor the whole interaction very closely but there was no fear […]

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A Good Pedigree

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

What is a good pedigree? 
The recent BBC1 documentary has highlighted the not-so-wonderful side of dog breeding. Of most concern is the attitude of the breeders that are in it for the vanity of showing, and the money that comes with it.  All will profess to being dog lovers but do they really walk the talk?

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There are some days when I threaten the spaniels that they’ll be posted on eBay.  Their misdemeanours over the past few days are listed here:
Sprocket woke the baby up by barking 
Spot had weed in the kitchen overnight
Sprocket chewed up the baby’s squeaky toy
Sprocket and Spot, in the car park where we stop to walk, found […]

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An Idyllic Day by the River

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I set off today in fine spirits. We’ve had a lovely few days of weather and what could be better than a dog walk by the river in the sunshine?

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Pheremones

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Feliway is a marvellous product.  It is a natural way of calming cats.  Some clever person has bottled the pheremone cats emit when they are relaxed and happy and turned it into a plug-in diffuser that spreads happy cat vibes all over your home.  It has countless uses for stressed-out felines; when you move house […]

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