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This delicate, elegant and fragile looking creature looks just like a greyhound but its small size classifies it as a toy breed. The name in translation is “small Italian harehound” and that is indeed...

If you have ever heard of – or dreamed of – a truffle dog then this is the one! It can find the elusive, valuable scented fungus anywhere and is apparently the only breed of dog that has been...

Lovely Little Maia Regular followers of my blog will know I haven’t posted for a while and one of the reasons is that on July 2 my lovely dog Maia was diagnosed with canine lymphoma. I noticed enlarged...

Canine lymphoma basically means cancer of the lymph glands. I discovered it is a very common form of canine cancer , particularly for young to middle aged dogs and on the increase. Our own dog, Maia, was...