Woofing Manners

08/06/2024

Reminds me of a few of mine, Catherine Eaton 😳

07/06/2024

Running into the weekend 🎉🍻

07/06/2024

06/06/2024

Beautiful 💛

"This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date. I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this. Enjoy the story...
It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here's the thing.
I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.
I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.
But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.
I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.
When she dies.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.
Love,
Fiona"

Credit goes to the respective owners
Follow Birds and Animals

04/06/2024

Legging it off the beach just before the heavens opened 🦸

31/05/2024

Don't look up labs

04/05/2024

Finally signs of spring 🙏 Roll on whatever 🫣

04/05/2024

Cooper chasing Stanley. Zoom to clock Stanley's expression - Chester Zoo vibes 🦍🤣

04/05/2024

Channeling my inner Charlton Heston vibes 👑

24/12/2023

Wishing all my lovely friends, old and new, a fabulous festive period with family and friends. Also, cherishing memories of loved ones we've all lost this year, and to all who find this time of year a struggle, may your journey through be easy and bring more smiles than you expect.

Finally, thank you all for the wonderful gifts and cards this year everyone, they are unexpected and not needed but greatly appreciated. Instead of cards, I've made a donation to the Newcastle dog and cat shelter this year who do an incredible job in the face of great adversity. 👍

Best woofs for 2024.

Love Paul and family X

01/12/2023

Snow dogs

27/11/2023

Beautiful morning on the beach, before the rain came of course 😀

16/11/2023

From January 2024, I'm able to start up a new 1 hour group afternoon walk. This will start approximately 230pm - 330pm, Monday to Friday. Please get in touch if you think it's something you'd benefit from and please pass on my details to anyone else who I don't know! Best woofs, Paul.

01/09/2023

Bit of an impromptu decision on my behalf to run in next Sunday's Great North Run as a last minute place came up with the Macmillan Cancer Support Charity 😳

Need to get my skates on with fundraising and training 😬

Fantastic if you can help support guys 👏👏👏

Thanks and much appreciated 🙏

Help Paul Harron raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

25/03/2023

https://www.facebook.com/groups/131752256848313/permalink/6127517900605022/

23/12/2022

That's the business closed until January 3rd folks. Huge thanks to all of you, my lovely, special hoomans for your fantastic support throughout 2022, and also for all the kind and thoughtful cards, presents and best wishes this week, none of which are needed or expected but greatly appreciated nonetheless 🫶 I love what I do and your trust to do it really is the gift that keeps on giving. Finally I wish all my customers old and new a very merry Christmas and a healthy 2023. Slainte🍷🥂🍻 and best woofs 🐾 Paul ❤️

15/12/2022

This kinda day 🫶❄️

15/08/2022

Saw this in Howden. Bravo 👏

30/06/2022

Couple of rare spaces in the gang now available so please give me a call on 07880724009 to discuss any requirements. Best woofs 🐶