Archives for April 2024

While a heartbreaking number of puppies are taken from their mums  to be sold off to unsuspecting owners by unscrupulous breeders, eight weeks of age is the traditional age for puppies to move on to their new home. As puppies are usually fully weaned by the age of seven weeks, and able to eat solid foods, […]

Ancient, long-lived and amazingly cat-like, the has been called many names through centuries – and has started its journey to the West only a few years ago. When Alison Darley came across images of the Chuandong Hound online, she was immediately fascinated – and reading up, she soon realised she may be looking at the perfect […]

A heavily pregnant Jack Russell terrier died alongside her puppies shortly after being found dumped on a driveway in Kent. The dog was taped up in the box, which was abandoned on a driveway in Pluckley Road, Ashford. The residents found her on the morning of Tuesday 11 May, took her inside, and called the  Inspector Clive […]

Several animal welfare charities have welcomed the government’s Action Plan for Animal Welfare, which was outlined in the Queen’s Speech on Tuesday 11 May. With harsher custodial sentences for animal cruelty ,the government has now promised in its to “crack down on puppy smuggling”. Dogs Trust, who  to be almost smuggled through the UK border, have […]