Summers End... October 31st is what we think of as the last day of summer, it's the last day of our six month tourist season. In the next day or two the airport will close for all international flights and will only open for the island hopper, which comes over from Athens daily. The shops and ... [ Read More ]
Ringworm
Just when I thought we'd won the battle against ringworm in one of our dogs without the others becoming infected, it appears that we haven't. A few months back we rescued a dog that had been dumped and had been living rough for weeks. We were only meant to foster her, but she was so sweet that we ... [ Read More ]
Honest…
This week I didn't have to think too hard about my Word Of The Week as this simple honest phone call from a large online company stood out and really made my day. I like many other people like it when someone is honest and like many others have been a victim of dishonesty. So My Word Of The Week ... [ Read More ]
Dogs, Cars And The Sun Are A Recipe For Disaster!
Dogs And Cars Any good dog owner will know that dogs should never be left in the car when the sun is up. Even if the air temperature is not that hot, the inside of a car soon heats up with the sun beating down through the windows. Open car windows do litttle to stop it getting unbearably hot ... [ Read More ]
Two Months With Flossie…
Flossie is as you may have already read in my previous post The Story Of The Dumped Dog That Has Found Her Forever Home, a stray that we were originally only fostering for two weeks until she recovered from being spayed, but she was so sweet we decided to keep her. How Flossie Has Settled ... [ Read More ]
The Story Of The Dumped Dog That Found Her Forever Home…
Unwanted Dogs Being Abandoned... I live on the Greek island of Zakynthos and here as well as all over Greece there is a major problem with dogs being abandoned on the street, litters of unwanted puppies being dumped in bins/fields/up mountains - basically in the middle of nowhere and left to die. ... [ Read More ]
The Two Yorkies That Cannot Overeat
As some of you may already know, we have four dogs, two of them are Yorkshire Terriers or Yorkies as they are otherwise known. All dog owner will have stories to tell, some of them silly and some of them not so silly. Our recent story ended up with a trip to the vets, costing us money - I am ... [ Read More ]
A Letter To Zippy…..
Most of us have had pets that have meant the world to us. Unfortunately there comes a time when we have to say goodbye to our faithful friends. This is a letter I wrote to the first dog I ever owned, a year after she passed away. She was special - as are all pets in their own way - and what made ... [ Read More ]
It Wasn’t Her Time Just Yet!
In the post When The Time Comes, I wrote about our old dog, Beanie, whose health was not good. Her heart was failing, she wasn't eating and to be honest things weren't looking good for her. Well, two weeks later I am pleased to report that the heart medication she is taking seems to be working. She ... [ Read More ]
When The Time Comes….
Two years ago I had to make a gut wrenching phone call to our vet to make arrangements to have our old dog put down. Zippy was 19 years old and had had a good life, but that did not to make it any easier to make that call. She was the first dog me and my husband had owned together and we had ... [ Read More ]