Harrold Hounds

20/05/2024

Memories next to me as I'm sorting out paperwork 🥰🐾 xx

15/05/2024

Love this Basset Hound 🐾🥰

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12/05/2024

Thank you so much Jackie Sullivan 🥰 we miss them so, so much ###

09/05/2024

🥰HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL🥰
🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
We wanted to say a huge thank you for all your wonderful farewell cards and gifts. We were totally blown away, you can probably tell that from the amount of photos we took. I've only just taken the cards down after almost 7 weeks 😁 I shall be putting them all in an album to keep 😘
We miss you all and all the hairy Harrold Houndies (and purrrries🐈) so much 😥
Sending all our love to you all 🧡
Hopefully we'll be back soon for cuddle top-ups 😁🐾
### THANK YOU ###

01/05/2024

7 years ago: Samson enjoying his free ice cream from the very kind ice cream man at Beccles Antique Market 🥰🍦😋

28/04/2024

Memories of Minnie 🖤🐾###

28/04/2024

In Special Loving Memory of our dear friend and one of the family, beautiful Minnie.
Minnie had been having chemotherapy treatment to treat her lymphoma which was apparent in her neck and legs. Unfortunately she developed pancreatitis which caused her a lot of pain and discomfort and an ultrasound scan revealed a further tumour in her stomach and fluid on her lungs.
Minnie's mum and sister had to make the heartbreaking decision to let her go 😥
We are heartbroken, she was part of our lives for a long time, special friends with Samson, an incredible bond with Bren, she was one of the family and we have so many wonderful memories of our time together. She will stay in our hearts forever.
Our love and thoughts are with her heartbroken mum and sister, Elisabeth & Olivia. She was a special little lady, we hope in time the memories will help ease your pain and sadness.
Run free Minnie Mouse, forever in our hearts 🐾🖤🌈😥###

25/04/2024

23/04/2024

7 years ago - Samson and his good friend Nessy 🥰

22/04/2024

They loved it when Bren would get 'down with the dogs' so they could climb on him and get extra cuddles. This is how some of the photos were taken 😁🐾

22/04/2024

Friday 22nd March 🐾 Farewell photos - part 2 🥹

22/04/2024

Friday 22nd March 🐾 Farewell photos 🥹

22/04/2024

Thursday 21st March 🐾 Farewell photos - part 2 🥹

22/04/2024

Thursday 21st March 🐾 Farewell photos 🥹

22/04/2024

Wednesday 20th March 🐾 Farewell photos - part 2 🥹

22/04/2024

Wednesday 20th March 🐾 Farewell photos 🥹

22/04/2024

Tuesday 19th March 🐾 Farewell photos - part 2 🥹

22/04/2024

Tuesday 19th March 🐾 Farewell photos 🥹

20/04/2024

Waggy Woofday to this handsome man, 9 today! Enjoy your special day 🎂🍗🍦🧁🍩🍪🍰🍇🪵🎉xx

20/04/2024

Thank you Jackie Sullivan , thinking of your wonderful boys, so many happy memories and I remember that day like it was yesterday 🩵🩵🩵🐾🐾🐾###

14/04/2024

Happy Gotcha Day - this gorgeous baby was welcomed into her family 3 years ago today 🥰🩷 still just as beautiful now ###

08/04/2024

Well, it's been harder than I ever imagined it would be, to say goodbye to all our wonderful Harrold Houndies 🐾
They have been a huge part of our lives for a long time, as have all their families, I'm finding it really hard to adjust to life without them all. Whether they had been with us from the very beginning, or have joined us more recently (and everyone in between), we still love them just as much, we love each and every one, as if they were our own and now there is a big empty void in our lives. My heart hurts that we can't see their smiling faces and wagging tails every day, I don't know what we're going to do without them (apart from keep popping back and saying hello).
I know this is supposed to be an exciting new start, a new adventure for us but this has been overshadowed by such darkness (and I don't mean the bad weather) and I know Bren feels the same. 😭
I hope you all loved your farewell cards and were able to quickly recognise your furbabies, I tried to make sure all of their features were captured after bombarding this talented artist, Karen Hobart (who used to be a dog walker) with several photos of each dog, I'm sure she was fed up with me and all the alteration messages in the end 😁
I added our boys, Lexx, Marmaduke and Samson, even though they are at the Rainbow Bridge 🌈as they were a big part of Harrold Hounds, joining many a walk and making lots of friends along the way, so it was only right that they should appear with us on the cards 🐾 I had to have two card designs in order to fit all the dogs on. I hope they will be a keepsake with fond memories.
I hope you will all keep in touch and please send photos often.
We will pop back when we can and call in to say hello as much as we can, so it is not goodbye, just farewell for now 😥
with lots of love, Deb & Bren xx
(special thanks to Karen Hobart @ A Dog Walker Draws www.adogwalkerdraws.com 🐾)

30/03/2024

At 15.45 on Friday 22nd March in the year of our Lord 2024
Harrold Hounds ceased to trade.

That was a week and a day ago.

Some of you will know me personally, others won't- well, I'm the other half of Harrold Hounds that you may have missed! The one that was turning the van around as Deb was collecting your fur baby and maybe talking to you at the door.

9 years ago I met a woman who I fell in love with. She told me that she had started a dog walking business but was wanting to move it forward- she was also working in a pet store part time and needed that push to move on.

As I had come from a background in IT and digital print I offered my services to get her up and running. A short time later we were running round distributing our business cards and fliers in our newly decaled vehicle whilst watching the Google searches rate in at either number 1, 2 or 3 for dog walking services in and around Harrold- I was quite proud of that tbh.

We both worked other jobs - deb at the pet store and me delivering groceries full time - whilst taking on clients slowly.

Whenever we took on a new dog, we used my beautiful dobermann Lexx to test them out! If he agreed, then they were in! He made many new friends with the original Harrold Hounds! And many of our new customers looked to him for guidance and protection. I'll not dwell on it but my boy got the dredded cancer- lymphoma to be precise.

We treated him with chemo and for 10.5 months but he was still an avid member of the Harrold Hounds club, vetting , befriending and protecting the other new members.

By this time deb had become a full time walker. She was spending her time between looking after her own two Hounds samson and marmaduke, my boy with his chemo requirements and our customers, whilst I still worked full time and walked with our customers when not on shift.

I wanted to be with my boy and the pressure on deb was growing so I decided to leave my job and spend as much time with my now fiancee, my boy and our clients as possible.

My boy came on all the walks up until his passing - which I'll not dwell on - and by this time we had so many clients that deb couldn't have managed by herself if I'd left and found another job. We had also sold our business based on there being two of us on each walk in case something happened and the fact we could walk packs of up to 8 dogs, which seemed to please our client base.

Well, the next 8 years seemed to fly by - seriously, I can't believe it was 9 years we were operating!!!

In that time I ( I'm from now on speaking for myself as I'm sure deb will have her own message) have had the privilege to become the temporary custodian, walker and friend of 91 beautiful Harrold Hounds! 33 customers at the point we closed! Some were even with us from year 1 to closure!

I've learned so much about our canine friends and loved each and every one of them! Some were lost to circumstances such as moves to other parts of the country, some have left us due to age or illness and some crossed over the rainbow bridge. But each and every one has held a special place in my heart.

I thought that our move to our new home would be a great new start and in many ways it will be - I also, naively, thought it wouldn't be that hard! Well, I was wrong! This last few days I've looked back on the pics from our last week and believe me, it's been so hard to look into the eyes of the beautiful Hounds that we've left behind! Keeping busy was at first a real tonic but alas that has now worn off.

I miss my Hounds and wish that things could have turned out differently! I see their little faces and just want to come back and hold and pet them again!

Never did I think it would be this hard to move on.

Thank you to everyone that allowed me/ us the privilege to spend the time with your beloved pets. I miss them all dearly and I know that deb does too.

Kind regards and very fond memories

Bren ( the other half of Harrold Hounds)

30/03/2024

Friday lunchtime finale 😭😭😭

29/03/2024

The love between these two is just wonderful 🥰

29/03/2024

Friday morning finale 😭

29/03/2024

Thursday lunchtime 🐾