Paws for Thought

Paws for Thought A professional dog walking service tailor made to suit you and your dog/s. Experienced in first aid,training/obedience. Fully insured .

I hope you will forgive the very long and personal post!! But you are all so lovely and I fear I will need your support ...
30/08/2025

I hope you will forgive the very long and personal post!! But you are all so lovely and I fear I will need your support more than ever over the next few months!

I have had the pleasure of running my own dog walking business for the past 19 years.

However Aunty Sophie decided on the 1st April this year that I needed to get to grips with healthy eating!! I obviously walk miles a day and was very fit but I won’t lie I suffer with the black dog (depression). Food was my crutch and I would always eat the sweet stuff and crisps. Needless to say the stones went on!!

I made the decision to take control of my life. Only I could do it and I had to accept the damage I had done. Now if I am asking people to support me I will be nothing but honest!! I tipped the scales at 17 stone 12. Hard to say but it is the truth. Now I could have taken a weight loss jab but I felt I needed to give life one more try! So head down and it’s been hard I went for it!! Don’t get me wrong however you lose weight is hard.

I have now lost nearly 6 stone and still want to lose another stone and a half. It’s shown me that I can do anything if I put my mind to it!! So I feel I need to pay back some how!

I have been accepted to run the London Marathon next year 26th April!! I haven’t run since I was 25!! So it’s a tab ambitious!! Especially as I don’t like big crowds or running!! 🏃

The charity Sense have backed the 🐢 or should I say 🫏 me!! Their ethos really touches me! Suffering with depression I can find life tough at times but nothing like the people they support. They support both children and adults with severe disabilities and believe with support they and their families should have the same opportunities in life . I couldn’t agree more. So I am hoping to raise lots of money for them. I am also hoping they will allow me to run for our village Aldertons two registered charities the duck pond and raising money for the village hall roof. Both of which are imperative for our Community.

I will be fund raising after Christmas 🎄. In the meantime if you see a Peri menopausal middle aged woman shuffling that’s me!! Please wave and toot your support as this is going to one heck of a challenge. No matter what I will crawl over the line if I have to!

What I do know is my four legged work buddies will keep me going and provide lots of TLC 🐶🐾🐶.

*** We just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all your love and support. It means the world to us and really does help....
25/07/2025

*** We just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all your love and support. It means the world to us and really does help. Whilst we feel very numb we are also so grateful she went naturally . We know how rare this is. She spared us making an impossible decision. ***

I hope you will forgive a very personal post! This month has been the hardest month I have had in my 19 years of business.

We lost 2 very important and special dogs three old age and I must admit I couldn’t quite bring myself to post a tribute . Then we lost a very special cat we used to look after.

I stupidly thought gosh that has to be it. How wrong I was!!

I can’t quite believe I am writing this.

Today we woke up to a very poorly Frieda our baby of the family. Her chest was like a rattle snake and her breathing so laboured. The vets were amazing. I took her into Tetbury and she had no temperature which indicated not infection. However it was clear she was very poorly. I drove her into the hospital at Malmesbury. I dropped her off at 11 am and at 1.45 pm she took her last breath naturally.

Life is very difficult to understand she was only 18 months old. It became apparent on the chest X-ray she was born with a congenital heart condition that no one could have foreseen. We were warned the next 24 hours were critical and she took her last breath surrounded by love at the vets.

She may have only been with us a short time but she mended our family so much. When we lost Panda in such a traumatic way she was the glue that held us together.

So my darling sleep tight. You were loved more than I can put into words and your short life was never in vain. You were incredible. I owe you everything.

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