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13/03/2025

Another tough day in paradise! 🐾

23/01/2025

Changing the bedding today folks - what sort of dog should I get? 🤔 🤭 🤣

24/11/2024

Good morning on this lovely wet day! Annie is dreaming of her walk (….that she hasn’t had yet!! 🫢) and I am not daring to move in case she thinks we’re going…..oh too late!! Here we go! ☔️ 🌧️ 💨 💦 🐾 🐾

29/10/2024

Annie is waiting for her neighbour 🐕 to come out to play so they can both have a good bark! She’s a terrier. She needs a bark - it enriches her life! (Luckily she will stop when I chat to her about it…..then the human neighbours don’t get cross! ) 🐾 🐾

28/09/2024

We’re very chilly today……🥶 heating is on!! 🔥

11/08/2024

Lovely Bobbi girl is looking for a home - 12 years young - have a look 👀

Bobbi is now available for rehoming ❤️. Bobbi is good with dogs and has lived with cats and children. She’d like a home with someone around a lot of the time who will take her for nice steady walks where she can enjoy having a good sniff.
https://www.oldies.org.uk/2024/pretty-bobbi-no-barks-oldies-club-fostered-shropshire

31/07/2024

I shared this back in June but feel it needs re sharing. I’m seeing so much incorrect advice being given & passed on, some of which are professionals which makes me really sad.

Your dog might have been ok all its life but it’s really not difficult to not put your dogs (or other peoples dogs) lives in danger for the sake of changing routine or putting in a little extra effort.

Updated advice on heat stroke:

💦 *Wet then Vet* 💦

The latest heatstroke research has been released by the RVC who found that if your dog has heatstroke, then get them immersed in cool water (keep their head above the water) or use your hosepipe to wet them down then put in the car with the air conditioning on or the windows open and get to a vet. True heatstroke needs to be properly treated at a vet as it causes multiple organ damage that needs to be medically treated.
DO NOT cover your dog in wet towels, this actually heats them up further!

Signs of heatstroke in dogs:
‼️ Excessive panting
‼️Weakness
‼️Collapse
‼️Reddened gums
‼️Vomiting
‼️Diarrhoea
‼️Confusion
‼️Disorientation
‼️Lethargy/disinterest
‼️Muscle tremors
‼️Seizures

Of course the best way to treat heatstroke is to avoid getting it in the first place :
🐶 Don’t walk your dog in the blazing sun (British dogs are not acclimatised to the sudden heatwave)
🐶 Walk short nosed dogs (French Bulldogs, Pugs, etc.) early in the morning or late at night. They are far more susceptible to the heat and struggle to cool themselves down.
🐶 Dogs don’t always recognise that they are getting too hot- especially if they are chasing a ball. Don’t throw balls for them in the heat, they will keep going beyond safe limits.
Credit Haygate Veterinary Centre

14/07/2024

Not bothered about the tennis 🎾 🥱 but sure they will wake up for the footie!! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐾🐾

28/06/2024

Little Annie - demonstrating how to cool her bottom with the new cooling mat we acquired for the hot weather……now that it’s gone cooler…..🙄 🐾 🐾

30/03/2024

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.
Like David Attenborough Fans for more:

15/02/2024

A Telford rescue centre has received calls from as far away as Scandinavia enquiring after 'Britain's most unwanted dog' after a celebrity took up his cause.

12/02/2024

Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison is on a mission to help find a forever home for a Telford rescue dog, Mason.