Not long ago I wrote about the Queen of the UK being implicated in animal abuse. That time it was about racing pigeons participating in the race from South Africa. Today, in The Times newspaper there is a report that on one of the Queen’s …
Poppy, a sniffer dog that checked Borough Market for explosives after the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, was given permission by the Speaker to sit in his chair during a sweep of the Commons with her handler, PC Spalding. Poppy was awarded a canine OBE …
Yes, a dog can mate with a wolf and produce fertile offspring. All dogs are biologically the same species. The dog – man’s best friend – is a wolf in dog’s clothing. All dogs from the most beautiful, purebred, pedigree to the scruffiest of street …
The “anthropause” is a word which has been coined by scientists to mean a pause or slowing in human activity. The coronavirus pandemic’s lockdowns has paused routine human activity both in respect of work and play. This pause has given wild animals a breather. It …
There is a lot of talk today about puppies and adult dogs suffering from separation anxiety if and when dog owners go back to work at the office rather than working at home. A lot of people have taken the opportunity of lockdown to adopt …
The dog bark is a canine alarm call. It is a message to other members of the dog’s pack which of course includes humans if we are writing about the domestic dog. It is not meant to be a threatening noise to a stranger who …
All 93,000 mink at a farm in Aragon, Spain are to be slaughtered under a government order after 80% of a sample were found to be infected. The wife of a worker at the farm in La Puebla de Valverde, 125 miles east of Madrid, …
This is a great photograph of a Tamaskan puppy. This is a rare breed that originated in Finland and is designed to look as wolf-like as possible but with a great and gentle temperament. I think that you will agree that the face is intriguing. …
Carrie Symonds is the UK Prime Minister’s fiancee as most of the world knows. Most of the world also knows that she and Boris Johnson have a child whose name is Wilf. During the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, like the rest of the world, …
