I have two girls six months apart in age and it has been great. The first few months with the second one are hard work but not insurmountable, and...
Happy birthday Casper, Tarka and Lochan want to know if the cake was good!
Hi, liver shunts (also known as portosystemic shunts) occur when there one or more aberrant blood vessels which essentially bypass the liver,...
How exciting! I got Lochan from a breeder in Cumbria, lovely people, unbelievably high standards of health testing I wonder if it is the same...
I go for a hose down and rub over with an Easidry towel (brilliant things, really dry them off well) then in to Equafleece coats which are like...
Tarka is obsessed with her morning walk so there is no escape here. Lochan hates the rain and would cheerfully be taken out into the garden under...
Amazon were excellent with their delivery and the portashower arrived this morning. I filled it with 5l hot water from the tap and set off for the...
Have you seen the Hozelock portable shower? Basically just a spray canister, fill it with water, pressurise it then it has a shower head...
I wash mine down as soon as I get them home. They go in coats when I get back to the car to stop them grooming each other before I get home. There...
You are both so right @Stacia and @drjs@5, I think it is an epidemiologists nightmare to try and sort it out. Most of these diseases where,...
Yes there has been a lot of work looking for fungi, parasites (Trombicula caused a bit of a stir for a while), odd bacteria insoil or ponds in...
When Lochan was little I taught her to walk to heel in the house and garden long before I put a lead on her. Worked really well and to this day...
Not really, there has been a lot of research but it only confirms it is a glomerular vasculopathy presenting as an acute kidney injury. Some of...
Alabama Rot case now in North East England. This is the first one local to me, and occurred in a 4yo working Cocker spaniel who started with...
I know several folk who take their cats away for the weekend to static caravans, their own holiday homes, etc and get on fine with it. Mine are...
It's the old joke isn't it - dogs have owners, cats have staff.... In our home we usually have several dogs and cats at any one time. My OH is...
I had a slightly odd experience with taking the dogs in places. I went on a sponsored walk for GDBA last autumn and went to take the dogs into a...
Hi there, recurrent diarrhoea is very common in young pups. Change of diet, change of environment and the stress associated with that can all...
Poor Charlie, hope the Cartrophen works for him. But on the plus side, all this power walking up hills must be helping your muscle definition...
Oh no, just catching up with this, poor poor Poppy that sounds awful. Ripped off toenails can be extremely painful if the sensitive corium is...
