Your puppy will experience a traumatic first few days no matter how hard you try to make it feel comfortable. Going to a new home is a daunting and possibly lonely experience for all puppies, and your puppy is about to be overloaded with many new and possibly frightening sights and sounds.
Try to understand [...]
Stopping troublesome puppy behavior is more often than not your ability to understand why your puppy is behaving in such a way. Take puppy digging as an example.
There are many reasons why a puppy will dig: they dig to relieve boredom, to bury leftover food, to hide, or to create shelter to mention the [...]
Swimming in the sea and chilling out on sand dunes are the ideal way to unwind for TV presenter Kate Silverton
I’m lucky because my weekend starts on Friday morning. My fiancé Mike (Heron, a security consultant) will be with me. Monday to Thursday I’m up at 3am for BBC Breakfast and by Friday I’m [...]
Several hundred people gathered in the small Co Antrim village of Stranocum outside Ballymoney yesterday for a service in memory of teenage drowning victim James Elliott.
The 14-year-old from the village was swept away last Thursday after he jumped into the River Bush in Stranocum to rescue a dog.
Exactly one week on from the tragedy, [...]
A group of American Soldiers from the 269th Military Police Company of the Tennessee National Guard have delivered more than 225 pounds of dog food to an Iraqi police K-9 unit in Mosul, Iraq.
The food was donated by boys from Cub Scout Pack 5 of Goldthwaite, Texas.
The group, led by Maj. Chris Medina, deputy [...]
New research shows that only three genes are responsible for all seven types of coats found in purebred dogs.
There are seven types of coats found in purebred dogs but new research shows that only three genes are responsible for producing all seven types of coat.
No matter then if your dog is curly-haired like an [...]
Generally I restrict writing contests to my creative writing blog but as this is for dog lovers I thought I’d post here.
To enter the contest alll you have to do is tell a story from your dog’s perspective and you could win free pet food and more in their Tell It Like It Is [...]
The chairman of the English Football Supporters Federation, Malcolm Clarke, has written to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to call for a “new, thorough investigation” into a police operation at Newcastle Central Station earlier this month which left three Sunderland supporters requiring hospital treatment.
At least two supporters were reportedly left with serious head injuries [...]
Here’s an interesting story I cam across it is all about non-anesthetic teeth cleaning parties: it seems that in part of the United States they have become all the rage. For dog owners they are becoming the new Tupperware parties.
Instead of taking your dog to a sterile, cold and impersonal vet office, you can [...]
Kennel Cough is a type of upper respiratory infection in dogs. It is extremely contagious to other dogs and very common in kennels (especially in a shelter because resident animals may not have a good vaccine history).
The condition takes 3-4 days to show signs after exposure and can last for about 2 weeks. Like [...]