After the age of seven, your dog is considered to be “senior”. Hopefully, no-one will tell your dog this, and he will continue to be energetic and passionate about life for a few more years. When signs of aging do start to show, what can you expect?
Your dog will become less active, less interested in playing […]
You always know how old your kids are. You mark their important birthdays with a party, or a special dinner and you give them gifts. With your dog it can be different. If it’s a pedigree dog, you have its papers to refer to if you’re not sure, but when it’s a bitzer, and energetic […]
As a youngster and up until she was about twelve or thirteen, Sky was one of the most energetic dogs I have ever known. Fortunately, for most of those years we were living on a farm and once we had learned that she could be trusted not to harm livestock, we were able to let […]
One day, after an expedition with friends to a wild and isolated west coast beach, my teenage daughter brought home a cross-bred bitch of a Bull Terrier type and about one year old, which she said she had found. We already had two dogs, and I certainly did not want another. I very crossly gave […]
Hello and welcome to this blog.
I created this blog in honour of an old dog who has been possibly the best dog I have ever shared my life with. Her name is Sky.
She has taught me many things.
There came a time in her life when I thought her days were numbered. I changed her diet […]
