I Never Thought I'd Be Able To Remove Stitches From A Cat But I had to, so I did... Eventually, We Managed To Get Ugg Spayed After missing her first appointment to be spayed due to a major difference in opinion (I wanted to get her in the cage, but she was having none of it and you ... [ Read More ]
Meet Ugg Our Not-So-Feral-Anymore Cat
Meet Ugg, Our Not So Feral Cat And Her (no longer) Feral Kittens... I have written before about the fact we would love another feral cat to set up home around our wood piles. For a couple of years we had Morris (the not-so-feral-anyone cat), but in early spring he did what feral cats often do and ... [ Read More ]
Dog Grooming For Summer…
Dog Grooming For Summer We have five dogs in all and each one has it's own grooming needs. The three bigger dogs just need a good brushing, especially during the major moulting season, which happens as the weather starts to warm up in the spring. On the other hand, our two little Yorkshire ... [ Read More ]
One Very Naughty Dog…
It seems that we have a very naughty dog in our midst... We have five daft dogs and on the whole they are pretty well behaved. They have their toys, they know basic commands (Alphie I have taught to do some tricks fro which him and I am very proud!), they tolerate the Morris - the not so feral ... [ 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 ]
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 ]