Inspired by a conversation with other members of the cult of greyhound, I thought it would be a bit of fun to review the year from Sam & Maisy’s perspective. It has been simultaneously more fun and much harder than I imagined – largely in part due to Bea. This time of year is the…

It’s a funny thing social media. It allows us to share the most wonderful things and make amazing connections and share in the joys and sorrows of so many individuals. It also allows a controlled window into our reality, an ability to display and portray what we want the world to believe. Someone made a…

A bit of an ode to Collar Club in Cardiff but really applies to any secure field – we are just lucky enough for this to be within 10 minutes of our house! Field runs and field bookings used to be a big thing that were done on occasions or when it really seemed like…

About 3-4 years ago I wrote a post about things that our darling rainbow bridge girl Bea taught Sam as they adjusted to life in a home. Maisy needed another dog to help teach her some things about people and living in a house, even after the wonderful job done by her foster family. Sam…

Today Sam and Maisy paid a return visit to the rescue that they came from. A fundraising pooch pampering weekend was underway and I rather like clean dogs and rather dislike bathing them so it seemed this could work for everyone. I have to admit I was very curious as to whether Sam and Maisy…

Things have been fairly quiet on the home front recently, a steady combination of walks, work, play dates, parties and sleepovers (for the dogs obviously, my social life isn’t that exciting). As we tick along in our steady routine, we started to notice Sam was looking a bit off. It’s just the little things, the…

As part of my never ending internet search into my hounds, trying to get a glimpse into their world before it was also our world, I came across this race card from a day at Swindon. There are some names on there that aren’t necessarily familiar to me but the hounds are so familiar and…

Judge me as you will, I was singing that to my dogs this evening as I drank a glass of wine and cooked dinner and they looked to see if chicken might throw itself out of the pan in their general direction . And of course it had to be them. But the question I…

But I’m so glad they didn’t, it meant that Maisy got to ease into our family and it’s now like she’s always been here. I can only comment on Maisy at home, I only briefly saw her at her lovely foster home and never saw her in kennels. I can only give Maisy’s experience of…

I still haven’t got to the story of Maisy yet, nearly at her Gotcha Day – blame COVID, a ski trip and now a family holiday, but this seems like an appropriate time to consider life and life experiences. We are currently very much enjoying a family holiday in the Lake District, Joe and I,…