‘Fighting like Cats and Dogs’ is it really true?

Researchers, studying the relationship between cats and dogs, have concluded that cats and dogs are more than adept at reading each other’s signals. Dogs actually adapt their own greeting behaviour to accommodate the cats in the house. Although cats and dogs have very distinctive personalities, depending on how you go about setting the relationship up, [...]

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Country Kids Online | Secure Website for Kids

Do you know we have a website for country kids? A friend said that her sons were looking for a grown-up type of site for kids but all they could find were either pre-school age or sites about celebrities/fashion, or that concentrated one one subject. So we made a website for country loving kids! You [...]

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Pets and Fireworks – Protect Your Animals on Bonfire Night

Pets and fireworks simply do not mix. Bonfire night is a fun time for us roasting marshmallows and going “ooooh” as fireworks paint the sky can actually be a pet’s idea of hell. Every year many pets are lost or injure themselves through the fear of fireworks. Whether you have a dog, cat, horse or [...]

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Petting farms and E Coli

To date, there have been a reported 64 cases of people infected with E Coli 0157 bacteria from Godstone farm in Surrey and four petting farms have now been closed (either by health officials or voluntarily). So far there are no known links between the four farms and one petting farm has two different strains [...]

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Should I Microchip My Pet?

We all know the answer to the question should I microchip my pet is yes but if you’re anything like me you always say to you’ll do it next time we’re passing the vet and then promptly forget. Yesterday I got home to be told by Mum not to open the round pen as we [...]

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