What do you do when you have had a particularly rubbish day? Stick the kettle on for a cuppa, open the biggest tub of ice cream you can find and forget the bowl, just grab a spoon and crack on? I know that there are as many variations of coping with the
‘It’s the month of love, Luna, the time of year when we shower our favourite people with cards and gifts so that they know how much they mean to us.’ That’s odd, thought rescue dog, Luna, safe in the knowledge that her humans know exactly how much they mean to her and
This blog was first published on WhatCharity.com. It definitely raises an eyebrow or two when I tell people that we learn from the wisdom of rescue dogs in order to build resilience in the workplace. Yes, that means a rescue dog joins me as a canine co-tutor to deliver the workshop! We’re
It’s a triple whammy on the ‘weeks’ with National Storytelling Week, Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week and Children’s Mental Health Week landing at the same time. Throw a dog into the mix and it’s a week that’s perfectly designed for us! It was a story that started everything we do
Working with dogs offers a unique insight into the process of recovery from abuse. For humans, it is understood and respected that abuse profoundly affects how a person feels, how a person thinks, how a person behaves and how a person responds to triggers, not only while they are experiencing the abuse
‘Ok, Luna, it’s 2020 and it’s time to talk resolutions. You are going to march around the streets with me every day so that I can measure exactly how many calories you’ve burned. You are going to cut down on those treats you love because while we’re grateful we didn’t have to
We love an outing, preferably somewhere with a tea shop, because that’s the sort of rock and roll team we are, and on a recent outing, we met this spectacular looking fish. This isn’t just any fish; this fish comes with a warning. There’s no ‘might’ when it comes to this fish,
In the wake of today’s result, wake being the operative word, I am profoundly aware that I have to do something to create a change, to make a change and to be the change. We all do. In moments of utter bemusement, I take a moment and read a quote that’s on
I recently had the misfortune of encountering a puppy farmer who docked the tails of her dogs. The word ‘docked’ makes it sound gentler than it is. She had the tails cut off her already abused, mistreated and neglected puppies. The authorities are dealing with her, for a number of reasons, but
Yesterday, I was told that our Canine Hope programme is ‘controversial.’ You’re damn right it is! The word ‘controversy’ was coined from the Latin ‘controversia’, as a composite of ‘controversus’, which means, ‘turned in an opposite direction.’ You bet we’re turning things in the opposite direction! The reason I wrote my first