Home Alone 2 – Travis Goes Solo. The next stage after accustoming Travis to a crate was to leave him on his own in the house for a short period. It can seem as if you are velcroed to your puppy at first. Dogs are social animals and, in their feral state, would never be […]

A Soggy Day Out – It’s Wimbledon Fortnight Following the heatwave, we now have a traditional  Wimbledon Fortnight – it’s tipping down with rain. Equally predictable, the one day that we schedule for a day out to celebrate a friend’s birthday was the first day of (torrential) rain all summer. Undeterred, we boarded the tube […]

Crate Expectations – Monster in a Cage! I finally gave in and crated Travis. In all honesty, I’ve always been rather lukewarm about crates. They certainly have their place for travel or in a veterinary or show setting, but I was never keen on crating dogs in the home. That was before I had a […]