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Championing Local How do you celebrate a significant anniversary when it’s difficult to plan a big party? The answer for Hampshire Fare, the county’s food and drink group, was to commission a special bespoke Crest featuring local produce.

Hampshire Fare was established 30 years ago in 1991 by a group of farmers to promote the area’s abundance of local produce. Initially supported by Hampshire County Council, Hampshire Fare has developed into a selffunding, not-for-profit Community Interest Company representing nearly 400 members, including local producers and independent hospitality businesses and retailers.

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This Crest was launched on the cover of Hampshire Fare’s annual local produce guide, ‘Discover Local Produce with Hampshire Fare’. This year’s edition also celebrates Hampshire Fare’s 30th anniversary, including articles reflecting how radically Hampshire’s food and drinks culture has changed over the past three decades with the introduction of new local hero products, among them artisan gins, buffalo mozzarella and sparkling wines.

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PET SOUNDS Cats: As far as audible communication goes, cats don’t have too much to work with. That’s why, beyond a casual meow or purr, they need to find other ways to express themselves.

Take hissing, for instance, Whilst looking outwardly aggressive, it’s actually a fear reflex, designed to ward off an enemy rather than engage in combat. This leads to the point that a cat’s greater communicative strength is in its physical actions, such as rubbing against legs, wrapping around of its tail and even head-butting!

As far as those audible clues go, a meow is generally a cat to human interaction, as they rarely make this noise to each other, and is usually a note that they are in need of something. As for purring, this isn’t just done just to denote satisfaction, as the same sound is used for pain or anxiety.

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How our furry pets communicate with us and what it is they’re saying.

Dogs: With our canines, different barks do have different meanings. They can reflect delight, surprise, threat, panic and more, with the pitch, number of barks and space between offering big clues as to the dog’s state of mind. Consider the delight of a high-pitched bark compared to the seriousness of a low-pitched one which bottoms out into a sinister growl, and you can see how expressive this form of communication can be.

So while dogs are not conveying direct, there is a huge complexity in the sound that can express so much; and of course, as we know, a dog’s greater communicative strength, particularly where others are concerned, comes in the leaving of and picking up of scent.

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