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OH DEAR! Gloom and doom has descended here once more as it would seem that our rats are back again, although the whirling dervishes of brightly coloured tinfoil windmills are continuing to do a sterling job in keeping them out of the front part of...
TODAY I offer you a sad tale from Kent, a case of mistaken identity, over zealous action by the RSPCA or protection of the public by a worthy group? You be the judge. TAG (Thanet Animal Group) is a registered charity that deals with all sorts of...
ALL OF US who practice Galen Myotherapy® are keen for everyone to learn as much about their dogs as possible; because the more people that can interpret what their dogs are indicating using any signs or signals, the more they can help manage a...
REGULAR readers to my column who also subscribed to the latest DOG WORLD annual will probably have noticed my feature on the monuments and statues in London on which dogs appeared. This week I feature ‘one that got away.’
THE FINAL part of the series about breeding and rearing puppies covers the period between first and eighth week after the birth. During the first week, if all goes well, the mother does all the hard work. The breeder simply supports her, makes...
While Crufts has well and truly been and gone for this year, it is now time to look back on and consider various different aspects of the show in a rather calmer atmosphere.
As I sat behind the very clean Vauxhall at the traffic lights and gazed into the rather beady eyes of the frantically barking Jack Russell on the parcel shelf, I found myself wondering if the gentleman in the driving seat...
KENNEL cough is the missing element from the recent AVV articles about the suite of vaccines used routinely to protect dogs from infectious disease. Kennel cough is different from all of the other infections we commonly use vaccines to protect...
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.
