The picture says it all. You see Tommie Bear, a white, three-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier who is described as brokenhearted because his temporary reprieve from the animal shelter was dashed when his adopter gave him up and sent him back. Fast forward, and this is …
I’m told, but it needs to be confirmed, that Kamala Harris likes dogs although she does not live with a companion animal at present, to the best of my knowledge. I will write some more on this later but I wanted to quickly touch base …
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): The Kennel Club in the UK is in trouble again. A few years ago they were criticised for permitting and even encouraging, through breed standards, the breeding of unhealthy dogs which resulted in the BBC pulling out of filming the world’s …
Dogs at Helsinki airport that have been trained to detect Covid-19 are picking up infections in people at a very early stage and before the disease can be detected by the official laboratory tests. This is a remarkable finding. There was some concern initially because …
Indy is being trained to detect bushmeat which is informally slaughtered wild animals eaten by people. It’s a major cause of wildlife loss in Africa including primates, incidentally. Indy is a 14-week-old springer spaniel and she is in the early stages of her training to …
Time is running out for the UK government to reach an agreement over pet passports which on 1st January will become a major issue for blind people travelling with their guide dogs. Currently they can jump on a plane and travel to the continent but …
NEWS AND VIEWS: David Crane, 70, successfully claimed compensation in court from the owner of a cocker spaniel, Carina Read, because the judge found that she was careless in the control of her dog, Felix, in failing to stop Felix from running into the path …
Sally Knight-Buxton was watching telly at 10:40 pm last Friday with her mum at her home in Basildon, Essex, UK. Her three English Bulldog puppies were with her in the home. She was about to put them to bed having just fed them. Her children …
The charity Guide Dogs kindly donated three dogs to another charity, Medical Detection Dogs, for them to be trained to detect the virus Covid-19. The three dogs did not quite come up to standard as blind dogs but of course they’d been through lots of …
