Puppy Farm Awareness Day: The Kennel Clu

Did you know, The Kennel Club have cashed the cheques and endorsed the registrations from high volume breeders (more than 10 litters per year) –

Is This Dog Even Real?

If there was an award for 'Dog who might possibly / very probably is real but looks most like a stuffed toy' then this little

What’s The Point of The Kennel Club?

Yesterday, BBC Radio 4 aired a 30 minute item entitled 'What's The Point of The Kennel Club?'. Here, Karen Clark-Stapleton provides her personal reaction to the radio documentary. I found the ...

Dog Deathtrap: Why Britain’s Greyhound Tracks are Inherently Lethal

The act of racing one greyhound against another is not necessarily hazardous for the dogs. View racing at Odense (Denmark) and rarely will you see an incident resulting in serious ...

Dutch Dog Bite Study Condemns Breed Specific Legislation

As many of you will know, the Netherlands once operated a dangerous dogs law that was closely modelled on the UK's 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, in that it attempted to ...

The 5 Most Dangerous Dogs in the World

Undoubtedly it's going to be controversial. Without fear of chicken counting, it will receive a lot of traffic. And without any element of doubt, it might cause ripples but it ...

Can We Teach Children The Same Way We Train Dogs?

Long gone, we hope, are the days where a crack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper is considered a perfectly effective mechanism for teaching a dog some 'manners'. ...

Battersea Destroys Healthy Dogs: BBC Panorama

As British viewers took in the upsetting scenes from the BBC's Panorama documentary on the number of healthy dogs being put to sleep, we have to question what the solution ...

A Call For An End to The “Breed Mafia”

In every breed in this shallow world of exhibition there is always the 'breed mafia'. Usually a group of elderly women (with the occasional male) that is steadfast in its ...

Fatal Dog Attacks: Why Lessons Are Not Being Learned

Over the weekend another tragedy unfolded in a UK home. A youngster lost her life to a dog. In Britain, in the year 2010 - people are DYING as a result ...

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