Duffy found my forever home

12/08/2025

He smarter than I thought!

09/03/2025

Almost 5 months ago I was asking for recommendations for dog slings following Duffy's diagnosis with elbow dysplasia. We've still not bought one as he's doing so well, he's no longer on daily anti inflammatories or painkillers. He has monthly vet check ups and isn't showing any lameness during his daily exercise. He's lost 4kg in weight (embarrassing that we let that much creep up on him)
I tried to get a decent photo of him while we were out today but he was too busy doing dog stuff.

14/10/2024

Two years ago Duffy damaged his left front leg resulting in a condition called RUIN and 6+ months of slow rehab back to normal exercise.
Sadly this summer he's been very lame on the right front leg. We had a referral to a vet specialist in orthopaedics and neurology. I think they x-rayed and scanned every inch of him. They tested him for Brucellosis as well as Leishmaniasis. He's got a form of elbow dysplasia.
The vet says no surgery. He's had months of no exercise just lead walks to the garden for the toilet. Now we've been given instructions to build up exercise again to find the balance where painkillers keep him comfortable without lameness. They say, with luck, he should get to around an hour. I'm so happy to be able to start taking him out again, but sad that we won't be able to take him out for full days on the hills again.
I'm looking in to dog slings in case he ever needs carrying when we're out, if anyone has experience/recommendations in that area or anything else that might be helpful we'd be grateful.
Along with the list of 'donts' came the instruction to get Duffy 'skinny'. He's not happy about that.
Here he is enjoying the puddle at the park this week.

04/06/2023

Duffy hasn't posted anything for a while but my son took this photo yesterday & I'm sharing it because I just love that face.

26/12/2022

Duffy being cute in slow-mo, Christmas eve. He melts my heart every day.

12/11/2022

He's concentrating so hard on ignoring my breakfast.

23/10/2022

Practising our 'emergency' down. Now he can be off lead again I've started over with the easy asks and I'll build up the distractions and see if I can get him to down a bit quicker😁. But he's a very good boy ❤️

21/10/2022

We're almost at the end of Duffy's 6 month rehab for his torn ligament. Last week I hired a walled dog garden so he could go off lead. We're working through 'Total Recall'. Lesson learnt the hard way, if you crouch down to encourage your dog to you, make sure you've got good balance 😆

04/09/2022

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It’s nearly 9 months now since Charlie disappeared and in all that time there has been no news of him at all. I’ve been through a lot of dark days since he vanished but today is a new low as it’s 9 years today since I collected him from Manchester airport. Someone must know something. All I want is to have him back home with me, no questions asked. Charlie is a very special boy and it’s soul destroying not knowing what’s happened to him. If anyone has any information at all please get in touch.