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83The Essential, Non-Essential and Unexpected Costs of Owning a Dog
Nev aged four Owning a dog is a great joy to many people but it can be quite costly. Before you buy a dog, you should think of all the possible costs associated with owning a dog, essential, non-essential and...
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81Painted Pets
Why on earth would anyone want to paint or dye their pet? It is the $1000 dollar question that really answers itself. For money! People are prepared to stick their hands just that little deeper in their pockets for something unusual. Anyone who...
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80RSPCA: Saving a hamster costs £1,400
Now how is that for an opening calculated to make one enemies? You have heard of $25,000 toilet seats for spacecraft, but did you know that for each animal the RSPCA saves, the average cost is about £1,400? That's $2,280 to the colonials across the...
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74Help Your Chubby Dog Lose Weight
Is your dog overweight? Get tips and insights into helping your dogs lose weight.
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73Pets For Life - Not For Christmas!
Every year the same old message gets trotted out and every year the same stupid people ignore it. When are people going to understand that a pet is a life long commitment - not a cute Christmas present?
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72Cat in a Bin a Joke? Hardly
A look at what happened when in 2010 Mary Bale was caught on CCTV dumping a cat, Lola, in a bin and the media furore that followed the release of the video footage on YouTube.
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72RSPCA Kingston-Upon-Hull. Yet another animal charity in dire straits
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or the RSPCA, has been the foremost animal charity in the UK for around 200 years. In recent years many other animal charities have been created, some locally to the surroundings. However, to my mind the RSPCA is still the leading animal charity in the UK but it struggle to survive. When the RSPCA was originally founded animal welfare was often not recognized. The children and people were often left to suffer, and so animals were th
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73Seal distemper outbreak - 2002
In August 2002, the washed up bodies of a few harbour seals along the Wash coastline marked the onset of an outbreak of distemper. The Phocine (seal) Distemper Virus (PDV) had last been seen in the UK in 1988 when it claimed the lives of over...
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71Animal Rescue: Adopting a dog from an animal charity, or rescue group, in the UK
So you have decided that you would like a little friend, namely a dog, to join your household?. Even if you are looking for a specific breed it may be worth checking out your local rescue centre. Believe it or not pedigree dogs do occasionally end up in a rescue centre needing a new home. However, it could be that the dog is there because it has behavioural problems or more. Buying a dog from anywhere can be just as fraught with problems though. Even if you buy a puppy, if you are not 100% su
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70Scrumpy, we miss you!
This is a story about the loss of a faithful much-loved family dog and how he was irreplacable.
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