Raw feeding cats and dogs – interesting and useful books
‘Outside of a dog,’ advised Groucho Marx, ‘a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.’ Quite where that leaves books about dogs’ insides...
The Honey’s Blog
Useful, interesting and entertaining articles about dogs
The threat of McDonaldization
‘Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.’ – Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow.The veterinary professional has always attracted people...
What's in a smell?
We all know that a dog’s sense of smell is incredible and far superior to our own, with over 300 million scent receptors in its nose compared to our paltry...
Yes, your dog understands and loves you
Research shows that dogs have large vocabularies and stunning social intelligence.I’ll never forget the day my daughter came home from school, looked at me sombrely, and said: ‘My teacher says...
Cats in Religion
Fabulous felines, inscrutable in all things, appear in various religious traditions, and what follows is merely a brief selection of some of the many beliefs and customs that they have...
Problem barking and how to stop it
One of the most frequent issues I was asked to solve as a behaviourist was that of problem or nuisance barking. In some cases, my client had no idea that...
A Medieval Dog’s Dinner
We tend to think that domesticated dogs ate a more natural diet of raw meat, raw bones and table scraps from the time they began to live with humans. But...
Some Doggerel from Antiquity
‘Heaven goes by favour,’ Mark Twain once surmised. ‘If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.’ There is a backstory to this well-worn...
A Measure of Dogs
Libby Hall (1942 – 2023) began collecting photographs of dogs in 1966, saving unwanted pictures from being discarded into dustbins or thrown on bonfires. What started as a hobby ended...
Yes, your dog does understand you – and love you
Research shows that dogs have large vocabularies and stunning social intelligence. I’ll never forget the day my daughter came home from school, looked at me sombrely, and said: ‘My teacher...
A brief canine history of the world
When did dogs become man’s best friend? Until recently, the oldest known canine remains were 5,000-years-old (they were of a sort of Siberian Husky). Then a discovery in the Goyet...
10 Canine Heroes
Trakr, a German Shepherd, was responsible for discovering the last survivor of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre long after it was thought to be pointless. La China,...
