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A more natural diet for my dog?
My dog Oscar, a three year old Flat Coated Retriever, has been fed on the same brand of food since he was a puppy. It’s a kibble that comes in three varieties delivered to my door by courier in 15Kg...
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Inner beauty is what’s important
Poor Oscar has two holes drilled in his skull to have his frontal sinuses drained and analysed. I hope I have not put the poor boy through this trauma for no reason. I can only hope this is the start...
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What sort of dog are you?
I have only ever been involved tangentially with focus groups but I know that advertising types are fond of asking this question. “If X organisation were a dog, what sort would it be?” they’ll say,...
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Mission accomplished
This was the tweet that started it: Of course, that was a challenge to investigate. Now, Wagtail Walk is in Langley Park, a gated development built some fifteen years ago on part of the old Glaxo...
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On charity snobbery
From the Manchester Evening News. Link as below. On a recent Thursday night Manchester and Cheshire Dogs’ Home went up in flames as a result of an arson attack. A young teenager was arrested in...
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One for the Tate
Raffles is, at 4 years old, a rising star in the world of contemporary art using local soil as his medium of choice. Here, in a nod to the notorious Tracey Emin work, My Bed, he gives his wry...
View ArticleMortified
[sdropcap]O[/sdropcap]h dear. How true it is that the stories most interesting to the reader are those most excruciating to write. Oscar the dog is now nearly seven years old. I’ve assiduously trained...
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Oscar writes
I am Oscar. I am a dog. With four big paws and a tail that wags. And ears and a great big nosey. I have a mum and a dad and two puppies. They are humans. There is another dog. He is little and lives...
View ArticleNearly there…
I have made a point of avoiding the kitchen and all who work in it today, partly because last week’s tirades have embarrassed me and partly because I need a break. So instead I chose to walk the boys...
View ArticleWhat a tip
Unpacking and its first cousin Sorting-Out have never been fun types. If they were people, they’d be the dull sorts you bump into at a obligatory family gathering, with whom you’d make small talk...
View ArticleDogs are not allowed upstairs
Nor are they allowed to sneak next door and retrieve fallen pears from the neighbour’s tree and sneak back and eat them surreptitiously on the patio. Nor should they escape through an open side gate...
View ArticleIntimations of mortality
The yipping started at about 5.55 this morning. At first I thought Oscar wanted to be let out of his exclusive pad behind the bifold doors of the new sitting room. It was dark and I hate getting up in...
View ArticleA tale of two doggies
There are times, and this is one of them, when I do wonder what on earth I was thinking by bringing another dog into our home. Oscar was settling well into being our beloved family pet and recovering...
View ArticleFrying tonight
It was so lovely to Facetime with the Boywonder for ages this evening. It’s becoming less stilted and much more easy going and free-flowing. (He’s looking much better than last week, by the way, though...
View ArticleRaffles en pointe
Our Raffles is generally a bold doggy. He isn’t shy at all and is really inquisitive. If anyone is doing any work on the house, he goes right up to them to stare at what they’re doing and supervise...
View ArticleSweet spot
I am jet lagged this evening and nodding off as I type. It is more than 10 degrees colder here today than it was last Sunday, when I left London basking in a balmy 15C. Still, the kitchen feels warm...
View ArticleIs Raffles really a pusscat?
You must by now be familiar with the Cats vs Cucumbers and Scientists vs Cucumbers posts. And you must also know that we think our dear little Raffles is actually a pusscat in dog’s clothing. So the OH...
View ArticleOld and new in Greenwich
If you can overlook the divot in the red jumper I like the subject matter of this photo. I hadn’t walked the dogs for nearly a week so had cabin fever this morning and was raring to go. We had to...
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