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Canine pursuits in the spotlight The All About Dogs roadshow is visiting venues up and down the country during 2013 and aims to treat visitors and their dogs to a host of canine activities and learning resources. DOG WORLD's Victoria Wilkins went along to one such event last...
How to ensure your dog is healthy and safe this year HOWEVER much we want to protect the canine members of our family there is only so much we can do to stop them falling into misadventure! Just by swatting up on a few basic issues incidents in the home and outside can be avoided.
Seventy years with Rough Collies by Hazel Hunt MY LOVE affair with the Collie began in 1943. The war was at its height and things were not going well. I left school at 16 and was waiting to join up, and was allowed to indulge my passion for dogs.
To breed or not to breed by Victoria Wilkins THERE is nothing more heart-warming than the thought of several bundles of fur clambering over each other at four weeks old.
Travelling with your dogs by Sheila Atter Someone asked me the other week what I did with my dogs when I go away on holiday. After I’d stopped laughing at the very idea of a holiday I explained that my ‘holidays’ almost always included a visit to a dog show, so naturally I took the dogs...
Walking in a winter wonderland by Chrissy Smith IT’S CHRISTMAS time again which means a break from shows. But there are still plenty of activities available for dogs and owners who may need to walk off a large meal or two, or blow away the cobwebs after a few tipples.
Discover Dogs - report by Tom Burrington IF CRUFTS is the jewel in the crown of dog shows then surely Discover Dogs, London, is the Kennel Club’s showpiece when it comes to putting on a canine event which is able to win the hearts of the public.
Over 150 years of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home BATTERSEA Dogs and Cats Home is a national treasure. That’s how the charity’s dynamic chief executive Claire Horton described it as she revealed to DOG WORLD the Home’s 152-year history and plans for the future.
The fast, adrenaline-pumping sport of Flyball THE FAST, adrenaline-pumping sport of flyball was discovered in the 1970s in California. Today, the sport has grown in popularity and many nations compete across the globe.
Balance is the key to conformation and movement - Simon Parsons reports from Pat Sutton’s seminar comparing the dog and the horse DOG PEOPLE can at times be all too insular, seldom looking beyond their own breed, let alone beyond the species. Yet so much can be gained from comparing and contrasting your breed with others – to see what aspects are the same, and what bits...
The Queen’s passion for gundogs THE QUEEN’S enthusiasm for her Pembroke Corgis is well known, and how the royal family first became interested in the breed is described in In the Dog House this week.