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While my original plan was to spend Saturday at the Royal Court Hotel in Keresley, Coventry, for the 75th anniversary show of the Welsh Corgi League, a last minute change of plan saw me checking in on the Friday by which time the hotel was already...
I’m doing an Andrew Brace this week as I am writing my column in an hotel room in Southern Bohemia. I spent the weekend at a breed club specialty that attracted exhibitors from the UK, Ireland and the US as well as Russia and many other parts of...
The government’s plan to extend the provisions of the Dangerous Dogs Act to private land has been met with a good deal of concern and not a little misinformation. Some of the comment seems to be nothing short of scaremongering.
MY NAN always used to say ‘you are what you eat’ and, like most old adages, there is more than a grain of truth contained within those few words.
With no trials in the immediate future we are busy working with Lunar on her PD training, and at the moment it is going well. Although it is still early days and there is a long way to go before we can start thinking about entering an open, she is...
VYNE IS one of our biggest championship shows of the year, held at Newbury Showground. It attracts the best from all over the country in all heights. Not just because of the championship classes, but because of the Olympia qualifiers too.
I have had no reaction, at least so far, to the plea for help for the Labrador bitch from Yvonne Gray which appeared in the column of May 10. Yvonne said that she was so very worried about Jet, who had become increasingly and unreasonably...
The Dogs Trust annual review makes interesting reading. My eye was drawn to the number of dogs taken in and the types of animals that now pass through its doors.
Last time the subject was hyperthermia but we said little about symptoms or emergency treatment. Symptoms are relatively easy to recognise, but get rapidly worse so there is not a lot of time to react if you wish to nip developing hyperthermia in...
In the dim and distant past I stayed with a friend in London who rented a flat in the leafy northern suburbs. His elderly landlord, having been told of my interest in ‘old things’ connected with dogs, proudly brought out his treasured possession...
The Kennel Club recently released a revised version of the breed Standard regarding the presentation of the Poodle for the show ring. We can now show this breed in trims other than the puppy, puppy lion, traditional lion or continental.
The perspective I take is that the breeder is the person who owns the brood bitch at the time she is mated. In last month’s article I looked at the procedures that the breeder should consider when deciding which stud dog to use on a bitch.
