This moving video from a dog shelter, Takis Shelter in Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, tells me that even the most brutalised dogs can forgive and perhaps forget and respond well to love. Perhaps some dogs don’t recover. Perhaps they …
Just another example of animal abuse, I’m afraid. There is a report on the Facebook website that a dog has been painted orange with black stripes to resemble a tiger. It took place in Malaysia. The Malaysian Animal Association posted pictures of the dog on …
I’m not going to add any words except to say that sometimes videos like this disappear because they are pulled from their hosting website. It may happen for a number of reasons. I don’t know what they are normally. If it has happened I’m sorry.
Dr Desmond Morris makes a very good point. He says that in the history of the development of the domestication of the dog it has come to pass that pedigree dogs are looked after better than random bred dogs because they are more valuable. This …
In another breach of that ancient contract between humans and dogs, sometimes the faithful dog has been reduced to a human level of barbaric conduct; fighting dogs. Dogs were trained as the dogs of war. This was not one of the terms and conditions of …
There are reports of a surge in interest in adopting dogs to keep people occupied and entertained during the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. The problem is this: because of social distancing regulations people are buying purebred dogs online without doing due diligence in respect …
A pet sitter commissioned under a smartphone app called Rover was recorded on a security camera throwing a defenceless Labrador puppy onto a hard kitchen floor. The puppy, Lucy, struggled to get to her feet afterwards. The busines that runs the smartphone app are obviously …
An award winning children’s book by a vet tech about her journey in rescuing and rehabilitating a blind, dwarf, nervous dog born in a puppy mill.
I am reading an article from the Mail Online Dated 28 April 2013. It is just before the time that Romania joined the European Union. Members of the European Union need to be in alignment on a whole range of issues including animal welfare. This …
