Insurance company eSure recently conducted a survey amongst a sample of our postmen. They were asked what breed of dog they feared the most and the results were:
Pit bull terrier
Rotweiler
Bulldog
Jack Russell
Boxer
Whilst the breed may be small in size the Jack Russell evidently has a reputation! Not surprisingly, the typically friendly labrador isn’t listed in the [...]
You may well find that your new labrador likes to chew his lead when you’re out on a walk. This is something that Archie did a lot at first, much to my frustration. A friend told me that you can buy a little metal lead extension. The idea being that your dog can’t bite through [...]
So we’re out on our morning walk and heading for home along the prom. I let Archie off the lead inside some public gardens and after a minute or two he spots something.
It was a black nappy sack blowing around in the wind on the grass. At first he sniffed it and I thought that [...]
I told Archie off the other day for sneakily pinching the tea towel from the oven door. He knew exactly what he’d done and after I’d rescued the tea towel Archie gave me that guilty look !
But apparently, researchers have found that dogs give that look when being told off, even if they are entirely [...]
Before we got Archie we knew that you shouldn’t walk a labrador puppy too much because it can cause joint problems in later life.
As previously mentioned Archie’s first walk was a short affair. Now Archie is four months old and we’re still applying the 5 mins per month rule of thumb. The guideline is walk [...]
I took Archie for a walk earlier and we went around a few side roads for a change. We were walking up one road when I noticed two cats, one sitting on the pavement and one nearby on the road. Archie didn’t spot them until we got closer.
When he did notice them he stopped in [...]
So far today Archie has:
got me up at 4.45 am because he needed the toilet (he’s usually awake around 6am now)
got me up again just after 5.15 because he didn’t want to be in his cage …fortunately he went in his basket
had his breakfast
had a play in the garden
had a sleep
been for a walk
had a [...]
According to statistics from the RSPCA the number of abandoned animal in England and Wales has risen by 57% as pets become victims if the credit crisis in the UK.
Last year 11,586 animals were dumped – that’s more than 30 each day. Unfortunately, in Jan and Feb alone of this year 1,432 were dumped and [...]
So, with his vaccinations complete and collar and lead on it was time to take Archie out for his first walk!
I’d put the collar on him the other day and whilst it was a bit of a faff actually putting it on, Archie didn’t seem to mind it. He gave it the odd scratch with [...]
The Telegraph reports that a golden retriever who was taken to the vets with a suspected tumour was suffering from a completely different ailment.
Bailey had the following items in his stomach:
two golf gloves
two rugby gloves
a mitten
a stocking
nine socks
The dog had been eating the assorted garments over a period of two years. He has been operated [...]