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24/04/2025

The internet is celebrating the anniversary of that pioneering spacecraft NASA called Hubble...

So, I thought we should add a token to it with our own expression of deep space...

Here is our adored and much missed poster pup Zappy...
D.xx

23/04/2025

Just to say...

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY!

D.xx 🐲💜💛🤗

22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day to all!
D.xx ❤️💜🧡💛🧡🩷💚💙🩵

19/04/2025

Wishing you all a very happy Easter.
From all of us here at HHH,
Dana ### 🐰🐣🐥🐶

01/04/2025

According to Google... It's Tulip Festivals today!

I love tulips - they are just so perfect for the Spring, for looking ahead to another summer enjoying the sunshine...

I hope you all had a great day.
Lots of love and good wishes to you,
D.xx

30/03/2025

Just to say have a wonderful day to all the Mums out there!
Bless you all... Life is tough without your Mum!

Lots of love from all of us here at HHH!
🩷🩷🩷🩷

17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
Lots of love from all of us here at HHH.
Dana ### 🍀🍀🍀

04/03/2025

This is an article from a vet. about the reasons why dogs eat grass.

It may be of interest to you if your waggy-tailed baby behaves like a lawn mower sometimes...

https://caninehealthsecrets.com/chew-grass-c18/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=static&utm_campaign=YPN+-+CPA_120215646006900072&utm_term=Facebook_Right_Column&utm_content=acquisition&a=CP+Images+4+%E2%80%93+Copy_120215647437310072¶m4=120215647437330072¶m5=120215647437310072&audience=new_audience&fbclid=IwY2xjawIzRfVleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxd-k2xaiAEdlXwHS2YxRvHsPuL4EX-R7csSBqt3e1Yx7vxV9nnjf7L3bLYbynXCH4t2_aem_iuXg7lO2hY3M3br4RekSVQ

04/03/2025

This is all so hideous and unbearable... How can we consider this acceptable? What gives us humans the right to inflict such terrible abuse on another living creature, especially gentle, intelligent and loving creatures like the ones we abuse on our farms?

Pigs as it happens are more intelligent than dogs. The average intelligence of a pig is that of a three-year-old. There are videos on YouTube of pigs playing with learning toys, solving little puzzles, putting little jigsaws together.

I know eating meat is Mother Nature's way - animals eat each other, but that cannot justify abuse of the level we inflict on the animals we call food.

I feel ashamed to be human.
Please share this post, for the sake of compassion, and 'humanity' though I'm not sure why it's called that since we humans seem to have the least amount of it.
Dana 😔💔😔💔😔

Mother pigs are trapped in cages so tiny they can’t care for their piglets.

01/03/2025

Just a quick message to say Happy St David's Day to all...

Love and good wishes to everyone, from all of us here at HHH...
With love,
Dana ### 💜💜💜

11/02/2024

Hello all,

Hope you and all your furry babies are well.

I have been meaning to write this for a while, but things have been so very busy here, that I simply haven’t had the energy left at the end of the day to write a post.

Pixie, our little ‘Pom Pom’ , ‘Pommet’ or Pixie Pom’) has been quite unwell for the past few weeks...

We had seen droplets of blood all over the place, but couldn't figure out exactly which one of the dogs was injured. Around that time, Angel had hurt herself poking her face into thorny bushes and trying to push through a gap in a fence while trying to snoop around a fox's den and had really badly injured her cheek, so we kept thinking it was Angel...

And then one day when little Pixie got up to go for a wee suddenly blood gushed out of her and we realised to our horror that it was her.

Following that, she started smelling of fish, so it became obvious that she had developed a very bad UTI (urinary track infection).

I took her to the vet as soon as I could and got a couple of prescriptions for her for antibiotics.

After that episode, though her UTI seemed to have cleared, her water intake rocketed, and I suspected that the infection had compromised her kidneys.

Further visits to the vet with blood tests done subsequently have proved thankfully, that her kidney function is fine, so I am hugely relieved,
The UTI however had a very bad effect on her bladder control and since she had that she's become very incontinent so we've started her on some incontinency medication the vet recommended. It hasn't worked yet, but it takes some time to build up in the system and start taking effect.

However, two of the vets suspect that she may have Cushing's disease, so today I am taking another urine sample to the clinic to get that tested. The last sample I dropped off, for some reason sat in the clinic fridge and became too old for testing (why they didn't send it off, I can't imagine). Hopefully, this time the sample will get sent off promptly and we'll know what is going on with little Pixie Pom.

The second vet I spoke to explained that her raised water consumption may be because of the Cushing's, so hopefully once we know the results from the urine test, she can start some treatment.

Other than that the poor little thing fell over a couple of times trying to get out of the back door, unfortunately, there’s a very difficult step you have to climb over to get out of the back door into the garden, and she hurt herself, so she has been really struggling to move. The vet gave me some Loxicom (strong painkiller) to give her along with the normal painkiller that she's been on for osteoarthritis, and I'm hoping it'll start working soon.

10/02/2024

It's the Chinese Lunar New Year today as I discovered from the Google Doodle...

So to all of us feeling a little worn down, and missing all the festivities of the Christmas period, here's to you...

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

Lots of love and good wishes to you,
Dana ### 🎆🎇🎑