Sounds corny, I know! The thing is, when you’ve got a dog, you just have no trouble feeling glad to be alive. If you get close to forgetting, the dog is there, reminding you with its infectious joy.
We have been enjoying the most glorious Autumn (that’s Fall if you are in America) weather here in […]
What is “Real Food?” Is there another kind? Well yes, in my view of canine nutrition, there is. To put it simply, if you can visually identify the food or it’s individual components, it is real. If it’s in a packet or a can and the contents bear no physical resemblance to the ingredients pictured […]
My dog Sky had surgery recently.
Sky is a regular visitor to my local Vet. clinic. She is contiually developing small, pre-cancerous skin lesions on her abdomen due to the fact that she has pink skin with very sparse, fine hair there, and she loves to sunbathe. I have several measures in place to thwart her […]
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 […]
