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Although I suspect the majority of readers to this column are steeped in a tradition of show dogs, when I feature something a bit unusual it always seems well received, as was the case when I featured a bronze group of feral dogs on the streets of...
My memory every now and then flashes back over 30 years ago to a shocking phone call I received from a groomer. She had her 12-week-old puppy on the grooming table attached to a hook by its lead.
IN THE circumstance when an in-whelp bitch has been acquired, the Kennel Club interprets ‘the breeder’ as the person who owns the bitch at the time of whelping, although that person will not normally have made any breeding decisions.
YET MORE sensible ideas to help Florence the Cairn come, first of all, from Mollie Rayment of the Wishwood Labradors in Norfolk, who also has a Lhasa bitch.
Baroness Thatcher, the Iron Lady, has been laid to rest after a life that has assured her place in history. I make no comment here of her efforts as the political animal in the halls of parliament, I am more interested in her association with dogs...
Dog behaviour has been making the headlines again recently and, sadly, for all the wrong reasons. My thoughts are with those who have been affected by recent dog attacks but, in my opinion, what we do need to keep in perspective is that events...
From the feedback I get from readers I know that one of the most popular artists whose work I feature from time to time in the column is Maud Earl – so here goes with another one.
Vaccination has become a controversial subject over the past 20 years driven by concerns about vaccine safety. This echoes the speculation in human medicine, which peaked around 15 years ago, questioning the safety of the measles, mumps and...
Thank you everyone who has been kind enough to offer advice and practical ideas to try to help the Cairn bitch, whose problems were detailed in the column of March 29.
In 1961 Shepton Dash made his first appearance on the advertising scene, the Dulux dog became an instant success for the public and paint sales soared. As our walls changed from psychedelic purple to 50 shades of beige, different dogs have carried...
Returning to the subject of breeding and its various challenges, this week we focus on a few of the mishaps and disasters that might occur during the first week after birth – a critical few days for a litter of puppies and their mother.
The subject of my column this week is a picture that has had in effect four ‘incarnations’. Cigarette card collectors will know it as card number 30 in a series of 48 studies of dogs reproduced in packets of Senior Service cigarettes.
