December-January, 2016/17
Sophie & Nell’s Choices: Treat your pet!
What’s in store for your pet? RUSSELL GRANT’S AND MUCH MORE Pet Horoscopes! INSIDE
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Pounce!
These amazing photographs of beautiful cats and kittens as they pounce and jump through the air, arms outstretched, have been taken by the award-winning photographer SETH CASTEEL in his signature up-close, mid-action style. Seth is the New York Times best selling author of Underwater Dogs, Underwater Puppies and Underwater Cats, among others. ‘Pounce’ by Seth Casteel is published in hardback by Sphere, £12.99. To find out more visit Seth’s website.
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‘Bam Bam’ swoops for something in the hay...
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‘Bug a Boo’ in mid flight
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‘Gummi Bear’ is about to pounce!
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‘Fuzz Bucket’ seems to be flying!
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SOPHIE & NELL’S CHOICES
Premium pet products, destinations & activities for you & your pet chosen by Sophie & Nell, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniels,
Tasty Treats! We love these ethically sourced and nutritious treats from the wonderful folks over at The Dog Treat Company! Bark the Herald does what it says on the tin - it’s a fab stocking filler for your dog. Packed full of goodness including cinnamon, a light sprinkling of sage, a colourful smattering of cranberries and a loving splash of coconut oil, these treats have passed our exacting taste tests with flying colours! Cranberries support the bladder and boost the immune system, cinnamon is a well-respected antiinflammatory whilst sage supports your dog’s digestion. Pouch: £2.49 & Tin: £5.99. www.thedogtreatcompany.co.uk
Pooch-friendly Baubles These beautiful treat-filled baubles will look great on your Christmas tree but it may be too difficult for your pooch to resist tucking in before the big day. Filled with cheese or chicken, these festive treats are fabulous last minute stocking fillers. £4.50 a bauble. www.fourleggedfancies.co.uk
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Portable Pup! Port-A-Pup (212) Smart and Chic, this ‘Port-A-Pup’ carrier is the ideal travel accessory for you and your pet while away from home. Weather you decide to dine out, stay at a hotel or a friend´s house, the carrier bag can be rolled down and in a few seconds turned into a cosy sleeping place for your beloved pet. The bag has a practical zipped pocket to hold keys or purses. It includes an extra cushion for comfort and an interior adjustable leash to hold your pet. Machine wash Sizes: S-M Measures in cm: S 37x20x35 up to 4kg M 45x23x35 up to 8kg From a range at www.kzw-petinterior.com
A Real Dog’s Dinner! Devonian dog lovers Forthglade aim to make your relationship with your for-legged friend as nourishing as possible and this Christmas is no exception, with the launch of a new grain free 100% natural Christmas dinner for dogs. Free from junk and fillers the doggie Turkey Christmas Dinner includes a minimum meat content of 75%, teamed with vitamin rich cranberries and parsnips, and are slow cooked to lock in goodness. Forthglade’s complete Turkey Christmas Dinner meals are £1.29 for 395g, served in a convenient tray for ease or £13.99 for a multipack of 12 trays. www.forthglade.com
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Doggy Cook Book! Shaggy Dog Eats! is a wonderful new cookbook that has recipes and ideas for healthy dog treats. These 30 treats are so simple to make and deliver big flavour to your four-legged friends. From Pumpkin Pupsicles and Peanut Butter Bones to Minty Chicken Jerky, all the recipes feature tasty, healthy, dog-safe natural ingredients. With beautiful images of dogs and the recipes throughout, this cookbook is a good buy. Priced at £12.99 (hardback) and available from all good book stores.
More Woofsome Treats The Innocent Hound (and also The Innocent Cat) produce a range of airdried treats made with 80% British meat. The treats are hypoallergenic and made using quality ingredients, sustainable farming and great flavours. Priced at £14.85 for a ‘pick & mix’ 3 pack. www.theinnocenthound.co.uk
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Look After Your Pet’s Health! The Pettura range includes Pettura Oral Health to reduce tartar and freshen breath, Pettura Healthy Joints to improve flexibility and mobility, Pettura Calming to relieve stress, Pettura Skin & Coat for a healthy skin and shinier coat. We tried the Pettura Healthy Joints, which combines glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) to boost flexibility and mobility. Pettura veterinarian formulated dietary supplements for dogs are available from Amazon, Fetch and www.pettura.co.uk priced from £24.99.
Festive Food A tastefully designed and tasty selection of food and treats for both dogs and cats. This seasonal range also includes Advent Calendars for your pooch or festive feline. www.lilyskitchen.co.uk/ products/christmas
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Poochy decorations! We love these hand-crafted tree decorations. Lots of breeds are catered for and the range extends to key rings and other lovely products and accessories for the home and dogloving people everywhere. Priced from £7.50. Check out: www.misheleneous.co.uk
Food Glorious Food! Beco Food for Dogs is available in three recipes: freerange chicken with kale and chicory, Marine Stewardship Council-certified, sustainably caught cod and haddock with kale and chickpeas, and wild boar with broccoli and pumpkin. Beco say unlike some other manufacturers, Beco uses NO cheap, low-grade, poor-quality additives like “meat derivatives”, a phrase often found on packaging and usually a blatant euphemism, they claim, for “worrying” ingredients. www.becopet.com
PS/ We’re always looking for premium products to review both for pets and people. Please get in touch with the boss at editor@petsmag.co.uk. Love,
Sophie & Nell
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ARIES March 21st - April 20th
You like to know what to expect, but with a fresh new year about to unfold, such an advantage is all but impossible. The best one can say is that many unusual occurrences will take place in the months ahead and you will be an integral part of those events. Your nose for sniffing out solutions to problems and your GEMINI practical common sense will be May 22nd - June 21st invaluable as you and your housemates set about making Have you been feeling things that have gone wrong and enjoying the arrival of a right again! Be prepared for warm energy? You've entered oddities of all kinds. that special time when the focus will be on you and most everything you want will come to TAURUS you easily. There will be several April 21st - May 21st weeks ahead that will give you a taste of what's on the horizon as Everything you need to capture cheerful people, family members the attention of a new friend you and a spirit of optimism fancy is at your disposal. This surround you and yours. The one pursuit calls for some you live with is gearing up to strategising, though, as well as a make sure the upcoming weeks bit of imagination, but once you are good for you. take note of the schedules of those in question, you can put yourself in the right place at the CANCER right time. Your sweet nature June 22nd - July 23rd will surely attract the kind of response you hope for and you'll A high level of activity soon find yourself being hugged, punctuates the start of the pampered and treated to many month, but it eventually winds to delicious new foods you'll enjoy.
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a close coloured by a much calmer tone. Whether you're moving faster than the speed of sound or hardly moving at all, your happiest moments are those you share in close proximity to your beloved companion. Opportunities to sit quietly are always a hit with you; if you can enjoy some of that out of doors, do so, as nature offers sights and smells that will delight your senses and feed your dreams.
LEO July 24th - August 23rd
For a change you'll be happy that not all eyes are turned toward you; it must be because you're planning some mischief! You've learned from experience that it's best to operate in the shadows when you're up to no good! The real question is, why all the plotting; who are you trying to fool and why? Is this retaliation against someone who did something you were blamed for in the past? If you're trying to clear your name, this isn't a healthy way to go about it. Just show your positive personality and all will be well!
VIRGO August 24th September 23rd
It's a less trying time for you. You've made a good impression on a houseguest and this pleases your humans so much that you're given a special treat as a reward. This is definitely a bonus, as you weren't trying particularly hard to charm anyone. You make a mental note of this person so that you'll be ready to make a big production out of the next visit.
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October 24th - November 22nd
September 24th October 23rd
A change of habit makes your human friends sit up with Your years of observing have surprise. And while you can shown you that even the darkest hardly be called predictable, it is of clouds pass eventually to a little puzzling that you've reveal a silver lining; it's just shifted your approach to food, getting through the rough period sleep, or comforting routines. that challenges you and the The real reason you've switched humans who experience it with is because of anxiety. Perhaps you. A series of unfortunate you've been forced to mix with events in your neighbourhood or creatures that you don't like. general bad news heard over the Maybe you're not happy with a TV might put those you live with change in status. Spending in a pessimistic frame of mind. quality time with your owner can It's up to you then, to provide a help. sense of stability, security and continuity, chin up, you can do it!
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SAGITTARIUS November 23rd - December 21st
What a fun few weeks you have to look forward to; the family you live with are making big plans and have decided to take you along on this exciting excursion rather than leave you with a friend or neighbour. Whether you go by car, train or other conveyance, you'll have the time of your life exploring new territories and seeing beautiful scenery in places where no one else suspected such beauty existed! Wherever you go you'll, of course, remain on your best behaviour!
CAPRICORN December 22nd - January 20th
How distressing; you shift from calm to jittery as you absorb the energy of your human companions who are on edge. Possible stresses from overwork or worries about family members are the source of this uneasiness. Though it's a challenge, you can all find ways to relax; massages and the right background music can help soothe everyone's raw emotions. Encourage your housemates to ease off their schedules to take time to enjoy doing nothing; of course petting an animal is good therapy for frazzled humans!
AQUARIUS January 21st February 19th
stories makes you popular among your animal contacts as you always have interesting news Russell Grant’s Pet to share. Horoscope is sponsored by The Dog Treat Company, renowned for producing PISCES delicious and ethically February 20th sourced dog treats. March 20th
You're always up to join the social scene so nudge your companion to take you out to play in the yard or at a park where you can meet other friends. Being seen gives you the opportunity to meet someone new too, as you don't have to do much more than just be there to draw notice. Happily many people will be showing an interest in you as the month starts and you could even strike up a productive relationship with a local humanitarian!
Without missing a beat you enter the month eager to find exciting adventures to get involved in, if none are immediately available you invent your own! Though your housemate has some chores that require your assistance lined up, you'd rather play or look out the window at what's going on around the neighbourhood. Being such a great gatherer local
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In memory of Lucy the Rescue Cavalier
In memory of a true canine heroine, we’re republishing our feature article by anti-puppy farm campaigner Lisa Garner from 2015 about her beloved Lucy ‘the Rescue Cavalier’ who tragically died this week after a short illness. Lucy had been very badly mistreated on the puppy farm and had not known love in seven years before being rescued by Lisa in 2013. Lisa, and puppy farm survivor Lucy, campaigned together to raise awareness of the horrors of this evil trade. Together, they made amazing strides in making the ‘great and the good’ sit up and listen. In memory of Lucy, we must ensure that the fight against puppy farms goes on. It is appalling that in 2016, man’s and woman’s best friend are still used like disposable commercial products on a factory line. Our very own Nell endured almost a decade on an Irish puppy farm. The news this week that a planning application has been submitted for Scotland’s first industrial puppy farm (along side the many other smaller puppy farms) is a disgrace - it must not go ahead. Thank you Lucy, darling girl, for your amazing work - heaven has gained a beautiful angel. RIP.
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on a lead, household noises, the list was endless. When I first met Lucy at her foster home, although I was prepared I was still shocked by her physical appearance. She was missing all the beautiful furnishings of a Cavalier, she was extremely thin weighing in at just over 3.5kg. Her feet and legs were stained from the urine and faeces she would have been kept in. Her back was so curved, her back feet nearly touch her front ones. When I picked her up for a cuddle, she really wasn’t interested, preferring to be snuggled in a bed with the other dogs.
Devoted: Lisa with Lucy
BY LISA GARNER I adopted Lucy in March 2013 after seeing her on a rescue centre website. At the time I wasn’t looking to adopt a dog but something about Lucy stuck with me. Reading her background it was heartbreaking knowing she had spent many years never experiencing something as simple as love, or being part of a family. Lucy was kept simply to produce litter after litter of puppies for the unscrupulous puppy farming industry.
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I had never adopted a rescue dog before, let alone one that had
“Now Lucy walks on a harness and lead, wagging her tail as she goes, she’s a joy to watch.”
After the adoption, I completely understood why ex-breeding dogs are best re-homed with other dogs, for canine company is all they have ever known. I think Lucy gained great confidence from my other dogs and looked to them when she was unsure of new noises or environments. Learning to walk on a lead took time and patience. Lucy was so thin and was lacking in muscle, so needed to have short, regular walks to build her up. At first, she would only take a few steps at a time on a lead, it was very stop start until her confidence grew. Now she walks on a harness and lead, wagging her tail as she goes, she’s a joy to watch.
I believe some memories will suffered like Lucy had and for so always stay with Lucy. She is many years. Simple things like extremely obsessed by food; I’m playing with a toy were alien to guessing on a puppy farm, where Lucy, eating out of a bowl, walking the main priority is money as Pets Magazine
opposed to health, dogs are fed if they are lucky. Lucy now eats every meal or treat like it is her last. Lucy is my first rescue dog, she has single-handedly made me realise how amazing and resilient dogs are; I will only ever have rescue dogs now. They certainly need extra patience and understanding but the love they give you in return, is worth it a million times over. Lucy and I now raise awareness of the horrific puppy farm trade and just how wonderful rescue dogs are. Together we attend events, so we can talk to people about Lucy’s experience and just how a rescue dog can become such an important part of the family. We have also done fundraising, raising thousands for various rescue centres and organisations that help ex breeding dogs. One of Lucy’s fundraising ventures was a 2015 calendar which raised funds for PupAid and Many Tears. The calendar was a quirky take on what you would expect from a normal dog themed one, which was done with the intension of making it stand out and raising awareness further. The calendar got various press coverage but more importantly it got people talking about rescue dogs. We have also done an illustrated children’s book to educate children about puppy farms and how amazing rescue dogs are. The illustrations were very kindly done by Mel at melon-design.co.uk.
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The life she should always have had: Lucy the Rescue Cavalier
The profits from the sales of the book are going to C.A.R.I.A.D, Friends Of The Animals and an ex-breeding Cavalier called Ben, who at only 2 years old is going blind and needs an operation to save his sight. If anyone is looking at getting a dog, please consider a rescue. There are so many deserving dogs that just need that chance in a loving, forever home. Pets Magazine
For more information about Lucy and to offer your support, please visit: www.facebook.com/ lucytherescuecavalier
my pet This month, we meet TV design commentator WAYNE HEMINGWAY and his beloved pooch Minnie. Wayne judges international design competitions, including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester, The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize and Wayne and Minnie Europan. He regularly holds talks on housing, urban design, education and the creative sector. And he makes time to get involved in charity work for the likes of Noise Festival, The Princes Trust, Shelter, Oxfam and Crisis. Wayne was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s
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Birthday Honours list of 2006, is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford, and a Fellow of Blackburn College and Regents University. WAYNE, WHAT BREED IS MINNIE & WHY DID YOU CHOOSE HER? She’s a Springador (a Labrador Retriever with an English Springer Spaniel Cross), aged three and a half. We researched a dog that is: 1. Easy to train 2. Doesn’t shed too much hair 3. A daft hybrid name 1 and 2 worked and for 3 people always say “pardon”!
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Wayne, Minnie and wife Gerardine ©Sean Malyon
DOES MINNIE COME TO WORK WITH YOU? Yes, most days. Hemingway Design is a dog friendly office there is another dog that comes every day called Mo. We have parks close by and a decent sized garden and a nicely designed dog treat tin! The team miss the dogs if they are not there. They are calming. We find that dog stroking improves output and design quality!
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES MINNIE MAKE TO YOUR LIFE?
in recycling. Also, drying her after a swim is a good way to “retire” old towels and she’s something to give old tennis balls to. She adds muddy paw mark patterns to hard floors and makes crisp clean duvets look worn in. She creates art by making an irregular pattern of yellow patches on our lawns. She gives us a reason to put all our supermarket veg in those plastic bags and to grab a few dozen extra as poo bags.
DO YOU DO PET FRIENDLY HOLIDAYS?
Not really...she loves going to stay with one of our kids. She Fun, do more running, gets me outside more is cuddly, cleans has been brought up to be the yoghurt pots before they go happy with us and the
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extended family. She enjoys the variation and the attention she gets.
DO YOU TAKE MINNIE WITH YOU TO RESTAURANTS?
Yes ...whenever possible...we seek out dog-friendly places. This one is ace https:// www.brewdog.com/bars/uk/ doghouse-merchant-city. They do meat flavoured nonalcoholic beers for dogs. There are too many restaurants and cafés that don’t allow dogs. We should be more like the French and be more dog-friendly.
Minnie having fun jumping for a stick.
WHAT ARE MINNIE’S FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE WORLD? Swimming swimming Swimming, jumping to catch sticks, chasing balls, chasing squirrels, rabbits and foxes. Eating yoghurt from pots and getting it all over her snout. Acting like she hasn’t seen you in five years when she hasn’t seen one of the family for an hour. Finding tennis balls washed up in the surf. Digging on beaches. Showing her cousin Mo that she is “top dog”. Taking toys and chewies off Mo. Getting onto our bed at precisely 1pm every night . Spotting a fox through the window in the middle of the night and going apeshit.
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DOES MINNIE HAVE ANY SPECIAL TRICKS? Her jumping out of water for sticks is prodigious and she rarely drops a catch when you throw a ball. She is like a slip fielder in cricket
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT REGARDING ANIMAL WELFARE? They need attention, remember they get bored, and they need LOVE and yoghurt pots to lick out. Wayne’s company Hemingway Design is behind The Vintage Festival, a unique annual event which brings together the music, fashion, film, art, dance Pets Magazine
and design from the 1920s-1990s that made Britain the world's creative and cultural hot bed. Wayne is also hosting the Vintage New Year Eve at the Southbank.
A Christmas ‘Moose’
Retired vet and author of Pets Aplenty MALCOLM D. WELSHMAN shares a festive tale of mistaken identity... That Christmas Eve my mood and a tiny Father Christmas was distinctly unseasonal. No tied to the bars. She’d been comfort or joy in sight. caught During afternoon gnawing at a consultations, a Mrs defrosting Moody brought in a turkey and long haired Persian was now being whose top-knot was tied sick. with tinsel and red ribbon. ‘Lulu’s sliced I wondered her paw on a broken what Father decoration,’ she said full Malcolm and Dora Christmas had of Christmas spirit … in store for me and gave a little burp to the next day – a prove the point. Then there was lame Rudolph with an infected a black cat brought in a basket hoof? My mood was still foul on festooned with gold ribbons Christmas morning, when the
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phone rang at 8.30. The voice at the end of the line had a thick, Scottish accent and was full of doom and gloom. ‘What seems to be the problem? I asked trying to keep the chill out of my voice once I’d confirmed that, yes, I was the vet on duty. ‘It’s Cindy … our Siamese. She’s attacked our daughter’s moose.’ ‘What?’ I replied, startled by the thought of some moosesavaging moggy stalking round like Godzilla. ‘A moose,’ repeated the voice
Mr Macdonald looked no better. ‘We wish you a merry Christmas …’ had long since died on his lips. Stonyfaced and gravellyvoiced, he could have given a block of granite a good run for its money. dourly. ‘You know, like in Tom and Jerry.’ ‘Oh, you mean a mouse.’ ‘Aye, Mickey. Our daughter’s pet moose.’ I hadn’t much experience in dealing with mice. ‘Is he badly injured then?’ ‘There’s only his tail left. She’s very upset.’
‘The fact that Cindy was being sick suggested that the mouse was causing a blockage.’
‘I’m sure she is,’ I said rather icily. ‘But you can always get your daughter another one,’ I added somewhat tactlessly. ‘Noooo,’ drawled the voice. ‘It’s Cindy that’s upset … she swallowed Mickey … she’s now very poorly.’
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‘You’d better bring her in then,’ ‘So Cindy’s being sick?’ I asked. I said, jotting his name down. There was a big intake of breath. Mr Macdonald exhaled, I rang through to the hospital at the same time emitting a to warn the duty nurse, Lucy, deep, booming fog-horn ‘Aye’. that a Mr McDonald would be arriving soon. My enquiry as to whether Cindy
My mood reflected that of the sick-looking Siamese that turned up on my consulting table half-an-hour later. She was distinctly off-colour. A miserable moggy that lay on the table without moving, head down, eyes dull, saliva matting the fur round her mouth. Pets Magazine
had brought anything up elicited an equally sonorous ‘Noooo’. Mr Macdonald was clearly a man of few words. I explained this to Mr Macdonald. ‘You do realise we may need to operate.’ ‘Aye,’ he boomed. ‘But we’ll take an X-ray first if that’s OK with you.’ ‘Aye.’
‘So we’ll hospitalise Cindy now, all right?’ His ‘Aye’ reverberated in my ears.
constant vomiting, so making her a higher risk. Suddenly, Lucy’s hand was on my wrist. ‘It will be fine. You’ll see.’
Another ‘Aye’ rolled round the consulting room.
It all went very smoothly with Lucy working with quiet efficiency, not speaking a word unless spoken to. The radiograph showed a large, opaque mass in Cindy’s intestinal tract.
the ready, Lucy ensured the operation went like clockwork. ***************************** Our timely intervention ensured the mouse was removed in minutes; and Cindy Malcolm D. Welshman is author of Pets Aplenty was soon ticking over in the ward, well on her way to published by Austin recovery. Macauley Publishers
Then there was a pause. Mr MacDonald reached under the consulting table and pulled up ‘OK, Lucy,’ I said, ‘let’s see what It was, too. With autoclaved a carrier bag. From it he we’ve got here.’ extracted a large bottle of whisky. ‘His granite features I’d brought the cat through In a sudden rush of words, to the X-ray room where remained impassive, not he said, ‘Hope you’re partial she’d been laid out, an X-ray to a wee dram or two.’ a crack on them.’ plate under her. We were now ready to take a With a big smile, my ‘Aye’ radiograph of Cindy’s boomed delightedly across instruments to hand, a drip set abdomen. up, the anaesthetic machine at the room.
‘See, look, even the mouse’s head is visible,’ I said, pointing to the off-white outline of the skull. ‘Are you going to have to operate?’ Lucy asked. I drew a sharp breath between clenched teeth and said, ‘I’m afraid it looks like it. But it won’t be easy.’ I could see that not only would the operation be a tricky one but the cat was in a poor condition, dehydrated from the
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When Mr Macdonald returned to collect the Siamese, I explained what we had done. His granite features remained impassive, not a crack on them. ‘So for the time being,’ I said, ‘you must keep Cindy on a light diet. OK?’ I saw him take a deep intake of breath. Then came a resounding ‘Aye.’ ‘And bring her back in ten days’ time to have her stitches removed.’ Pets Magazine
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