Home From Home Folkestone

28/08/2024

Go along and support the amazing Frandham Rehoming Centre x

26/08/2024

National dog day 2024 ❤️

14/08/2024

14/08/2024

Little photo bomb of how I spend my days 🐾❤️🐾

14/08/2024

Home From Home are endorsed by Yappily 🐾

12/08/2024

Go along and support the amazing Frandham Rehoming Centre 🐾

Flyers have arrived for our fundraising day 🐕
Thank you to all our sponsors

If anyone has anywhere we could leave flyers to be handed out we would be very grateful

07/08/2024

Thank you Maya & Beth for your lovely reviews 🐾❤️🐾

Home from Home have been looking after our dog since she was a pup. It is the highlight of her week going to hang out with her besties.
It is truly our dogs second home and you know she is being well looked after! The picture and video updates throughout the day also put you at ease. We wouldn’t go anywhere else!

Home from Home really is a home from home for our dog Indie. She is very well looked after and treated gently for her nervous nature. We always get photos and feedback of her day. Julia and Jess are lovely as well as very professional and I couldn’t recommend them enough!
Thank you for looking after our precious pup!

Home From Home are so blessed with such lovely clients and their wonderful dogs. Thank you again xx

05/08/2024

Look who's photo came first in an online Dog Show - Home From Home won best family. It couldn't be more true as the dogs we have truly are all family and we love them dearly. They have won some tasty treats which will be sent out to me, naturally these will be shared amongst the fur babies. Special thanks to LCDR Life Commitment Dog Rescue for holding the competition to support their charity and the rescue dogs in their care and also to Amy Jayne Pearson of The Canine Collective UK xx

24/07/2024

10/07/2024

A blog from a few years ago now, when we had some sunshine and it wasn't quite so wet!! However the contents remain true.

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11/06/2024

Home From Home are very blessed to have the best clients and doggies. Thank you Dave & Heidi Harris and of course the beautiful Maddy ❤️xx

01/05/2024

🐾 Puppy Love 🐾

31/03/2024

Happy Easter all, from Home From Home Folkestone 🐾❤️🐾

28/02/2024

Well its the 1st day of spring on Friday ladies and gents....

Hopefully it will herald the sign of warmer, sunnier and less wet days ahead.

Here's a little blog from last year about "Spring Time Awareness", little things to keep your lovely dog/s safe during the spring bulb/flower and chocolate filled days ahead 🐾

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20/02/2024

Today is “National Love Your Pet Day” ❤️
❤️ let’s see your wonderful fur babies ❤️

20/02/2024

The best job in the world 🐾❤️🐾

30/12/2023

Folkestone dog owners!
We would greatly appreciate you taking the time to complete our survey, run through ESCCAP UK&I (European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites UK & Ireland).
We would like to hear from you about your dog(s) and your thoughts on - and where it applies experience of - pet travel abroad. The survey is anonymous and will take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PetTravel23
The data will be analysed and interpreted for my PhD project on exotic parasites and pet movement in the UK, and also for publication. The survey is ongoing and has been distributed in previous years and will potentially continue in the future. This years will close at the end of 2023. Thank you very much for your help!
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08/12/2023

We thought we would share with you, one of our daughters graphic projects from her school.
This is quite old and it also stars our little Rosie 💕
Hope you enjoy 🐾❤️🐾

02/12/2023

First snow for this little one ❤️

14/11/2023

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07/11/2023

A few of my favourite pictures of some lovely dogs past and present 🐾

02/11/2023

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Bit by bit I'm building his story into a book that will honour this dog long after he's left this world...

He entered the world, and they took his tail. He then spent his life protecting the wound.

He was tense, wound tight like a spring, worried, anxious. He shouted loud at anyone who came too close, not quite so loud if he loved them, but still.

The physical wound healed for him, but not the mental one.

The mental damage stayed.

Early trauma is still trauma, and it doesn’t get any less when the traumatised one can’t fight or defend themselves. He had landed in the world an innocent, a precious whole, a life as vulnerable as life could be, and they cut off his tail.

Nobody has been able to ask a dog what it feels like to have their tail cut off. We couldn’t ask him in words how it felt, and he couldn’t tell us. And like all crimes against the voiceless, humans made an ‘educated’ guess and did it anyway.

When we met, he was still such a baby. A curved spine tucked in the hind and a swollen face. He was coughing, spluttering, barking, infectious and messy. His legs were thick, and his paws huge. His face back then was chocolatey brown.

In his younger years, he would race when his lead came off. His little body would shoot like it had been released from a cannon. Straight ahead, then about turn and straight back. The first time he was let off the lead, we thought he was never coming back, stopping or slowing down. He threatened to break the sound barrier that day as he shot along at the speed of light. Then we got used to it. He always came back.

Over the years, he created memories for everyone around him.

That time, he chased sheep on a snowy hillside. That time, he bit the postman’s shorts. The time he escaped and threatened the policeman’s wife. The day a visitor returned with a companion and pointed to him, saying, ‘That one bites’.

Then, there was the day we found him sitting on the little boy’s lap. The child who was scared of dogs and the dog who was scared of kids. Together, seemingly random, an intuitive connection. A hearty sight.

He likes to be around a group of dogs but is awkward. He’s sometimes growling, sometimes hu***ng. But still, he gravitates towards a group of dogs as often as he can. He loves groups of people too, but only when they're his group.

He’s had years, beaches, holidays, runs and games. He’s always been ready to race, to jump into the sea, to swim in the lakes and threaten passing strangers, just in case.

He’s barked a million times this week. He barks at the wind; even if the wind simply threatens to blow, he barks just in case. His bark is big, huge, and it’s everywhere. Yet while he’s been scared of sounds for most of his life, he couldn’t hear himself, even before he went deaf. Everyone else can hear him though, long after he stops.

The years have gone by, and he’s an old man now. The chocolate face has gone, and he is covered in white. He’s deaf, and he’s stiff. He snores like he never has before. His spine is taut, and his body is tense. He sleeps most of the day away, and sometimes, I see him standing staring at the wall or the floor.

He’s needed anxiety help all his life, but that’s OK.

They did, after all, take his tail.

01/11/2023

Who can believe its November already....
If you are like us and had fireworks being let off local to you last night, then maybe you will find my blog from 2022 worth reading.
Stay safe and enjoy the celebrations of November the 5th 🐾

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31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from Home From Home 🐾
*** no real candles or pumpkins used***🎃