Karen's Best Friend, Maisy

Maisy, my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is eighteen months old.
She is absolutely my best friend in the entire world. I couldn't be without her. She has been my support system during a long period of ill health, and my doctors agree that without her I would have ended up back in hospital, so she is, quite literally, a life-saver!

Thanks for sharing Maisy with us, Karen - Trish

A Sad Dog Tale With A Happier Ending

Thanks to Pet Talk member Linda for sharing your story. I lost my old dog last month and your experience really hit home. Trish

I as many other millions of people I LOVE my dogs.

I have always had English Bull Terriers and love all animals. Last year I lost two of my dogs, Bruce and Megan, Bruce died first in his sleep, at the age of of nearly thirteen, at this time Megan had breast cancer, I was devastated she was twelve at the time.

After a brave long fight by my dog and my family, three cancer op's later we had to let her go. In my life I have never felt so helpless and such pain, that was it never again would I have a dog, the heart break was more than I could take. My son told my husband that he used to hear me sobbing in bed as my dogs were everything to me.

After a lot of thought by my family, a puppy was brought home. I thought I would never be able to bond with this animal, I felt somehow I was letting the memory of my other dogs down, crazy I know.
















Now I have a strong love and bond with my dog, he is eight months old now and his name is Bubba, and I now see things in him that remind me of my other dogs and he is a joy to have.

Your Dogs

Thanks Fiona & Andrew, for your cute photo - keep 'em coming!

Nine New Kittens For Maz

My beautiful clever oriental girl gave birth to nine gorgeous little kittens 2 weeks ago, and so far hasn't needed any help supplementing the kittens feeds.I'm so proud of her!

Zoltan The Doberman Saves The Day

My children and husband had gone to bed, I was sat in front of the fire with my Doberman Zoltan.

I decided to go to bed as I was shattered, so I turned the fire off and left the living room where Zoltan sleeps on the couch and went to bed.

Ten minutes later, Zoltan still hadn't calmed down - he was scratching, barking, howling and finally he was trying to break the door down.

So I finally went into the living room to see what was wrong. As I entered the living room, there was a smell of gas...It turned out I hadn't turned the fire off properly. The flames had gone but the gas was still coming out.

God knows what would have happened that night if I didnt have my dog.

Thanks for this story to Debbie and Zoltan. It proves that dogs can sense when something is not right. Trish

Lucky Dog's Christmas Photo

Thanks for your photo, Lucky Dog - it looks like you had a great Christmas!