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Dog-Friendly Hotels in Essex - The Top Three

Dog-Friendly Hotels in Essex – The Top Three

The UK is notorious for our love of pets, especially our dogs. So it’s inevitable that when we go away for a week, we don’t want to leave them at home. So where can you take your furry friends? We look at the top three dog-friendly hotels along the East of England.

The Longest Pleasure Pier

Southend-on-Sea, the crown jewels of the Thames Estuary, features the worlds longest pleasure pier, it’s…

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Toilet Training a Puppy

Toilet Training a Puppy

It’s not an easy task, training the littlest member of the family to do their business out in the back garden when they’d prefer to stay where the fun is and defecate on your living room carpet. But how easy is it to toilet train a puppy when all they want to do is play?

Toilet Training Pea

Some dogs point blank refuse to do it, and others get the knack quite quickly. Thankfully Mr Pea’stoilet…

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Positive Dog Outlook - A Touch of Spain

Positive Dog Outlook – A Touch of Spain

It’s been ten months since we welcomed two Spanish dogs into our family. Izzy (our black Cocker Spaniel) who was thought to have been just three years old, turned out to be six or seven years old. The vet also found mammary tumours. But more on that a little later.

LD our black and white Brittany Spaniel is indeed six but must have had some appalling treatment. I have never seen a dog as…

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Deals on Dog Food January/February 2018

We all love to save a few pennies each month, but when the purse strings are a bit tight, we want to make the most of what we’ve got. So we’re taking a look at where you can get the best deals with discounts, vouchers or just special offers this month. We’ll start with our favourites, Lily’s Kitchen. Zooplus is a fantastic place to start. Based in Germany their delivery isn’t the speediest but…

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Spanish Rescue Dogs - A New Beginning

Spanish Rescue Dogs – A New Beginning

Well it’s been a busy few months since Andy had his operation and had treatment to conquer the tongue cancer and to help his rehabilitation, I decided as the other dogs we have (apart from Pea of course) hate walking, I wanted to open our doors to another dog that would be Andy’s companion with Pea on daily walks. It would be good for Pea as the others are too old for him to play with, if he had…

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Do You Know What Ranks Well?

Do You Know What Ranks Well?

Following on from the clear labelling article I wrote, I’ve been delving deeper into what actually constitutes as a good, healthy dog food, and what you should avoid.

When you grab a tin or a bag of food, take a look on the list of ingredients.  If you see “meat and animal derivatives” then you can guarantee you are probably getting everything left over from decent cuts of meat or poultry. So…

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What A Year. We Said Some Goodbyes.

What A Year. We Said Some Goodbyes.

2017. We thought it might be better than 2015/2016, but it was only the start. Christmas 2016 HuDad got what he thought was a tongue ulcer, but turned out to be tongue cancer. He had the operation in April to remove it and started and completed radiotherapy successfully. If we weren’t going through enough stress at the time, Shelby, our beautiful Porkie started to become very frail but a few…

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The Need For Clearer Pet Food Labelling

The Need For Clearer Pet Food Labelling

We all like to think we know exactly what we’re feeding our pets, but how can you be sure? Remember back to the horse meat scandal of 2013? We were mislead by food advertised to contain beef, which when investigated had included undeclared amounts of horse meat. In some cases up to 100% filly. So if we were mislead into eating horse meat, what about our pets? What do the labels mean on their…

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Over a Year

I can’t believe it’s been over a year since Hoomummy updated my website. I think it’s because she’s been poorly so took time out to try and get herself better. She is going to lose weight again in 2017 to try and make herself much better again, so hopefully she’ll be able to write most posts all about me and what I’ve been getting up to.

I have recently turned 2 years old and Hoomum and HooDad…

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Competition Time!

Fancy winning something for your fur babies? Well we have a terrific dog hamper to give away to one lucky winner!

Pop on over to the Competition page, and enter to win.

Good Luck! The Furries

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Know Your Crossbreed with CoOp Insurance

Know Your Crossbreed with CoOp Insurance

Have you ever wondered what the temperament is of what used to be called “mongrels” but which are now affectionately known as crossbreeds?

I originally never knew that Biscuit was a Cockalier, and for 12 years assumed that he was just a small Cocker Spaniel as we were told when we first got him but now living with Pea who is a full blown Cocker Spaniel it brought to light the contrasting…

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10 Months and 17 Days

10 Months and 17 Days

OK, it’s official, Pea is now 10 months and 17 days old and the time he’s been with us has been incredibly colourful.  We initially had quite a cute but bitey little man who wouldn’t stay still long enough for cuddles, hated having his fur brushed, spat everything we fed him out on the floor before pushing around with his nose to see if he fancied eating it or not, to a beautiful little boy who…

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Dog Insurance Is A Must

Dog Insurance Is A Must

Pea has now been a member of our family for the last 4 months and in that time we’ve gone from a manic little 12 week puppy to a cheeky 8 month old puppy who has quadrupled in size and has the ability to find the most obscure things to chew. We hoover twice a day, and steam the floor once a day, yet Pea will still find receipts, cable ties, and other strange things that a) no one has ever seen or…

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Daisys Dog Deli Video Review

Daisys Dog Deli Video Review

I decided to buy Little Pea and The Furries a box of goodies from Daisys Dog Deli.  See how they got on…

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Pea and The Thundershirt

Pea and The Thundershirt

Biscuit was always afraid of fireworks. It’s stemmed from when we had originally adopted him so each year firework night came around we would have to either cuddle him tight inside our clothes (I’d wear a jumper and pop him in-between me and the jumper) where he’d usually fall asleep listening to my heart. A couple of times it didn’t work so we would have to get Daddy Bo’s night cage out for him,…

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Low Shedding Dogs

All dog enthusiasts can at testify that dogs are among the best pets man can own, not only do they offer the benefit of security but they are also such loyal beings, hence the term “man’s best friend”. Dogs come in varying types such as the German shepherd, Chihuahua, Bulldog, Yorkshire Terrier, Golden Retriever amongst others. However, what is it that distinguishes a dog from another? I know the…

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Daddy Bo - An Update (Contains Graphic Image)

Daddy Bo – An Update (Contains Graphic Image)

We’ve just got back from the vets and have some updates on what’s going on.

The fainting is indeed syncope which the Vet believes is caused through a heart murmur. It’s quite a usual thing for King Charles Cavaliers to have as both of the CKC’s we had both lived with heart murmurs – one (our Pickle) had to have tablets whereas the other (our Mitzi) didn’t need them as her’s never lead to syncope.…

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