Pets tune into your mood and the longer you live with them the more sensitive this psychic relationship becomes. I know tests have been done showing that people’s blood pressure drops when their pet enters the room (not too much obviously or we’d all be keeling over every time Rover makes an appearance) and that […]
Well, I arrived back home last night having spent all of yesterday travelling. I forgot when I booked that it was a bank holiday in Italy and so several trains were cancelled. Having landed at 2.30pm it then took me six hours to travel from Pisa to the Casentino. Unbelievable. Although I had a fantastic
I'm staying with my Mum in the UK for a week and have left the menagerie in Alan's capable hands while I spoil my mother's Yorkie and tabby cat for a while! I usually get a lot of reading in when at my Mum's house and I'm reading a fantastic book at the moment that
I’ve got a little corner of the garden for all our departed animals. Some are actually buried there, others are buried in the garden of our old farmhouse in Umbria and so they are commemorated in our new garden with their names and dates on large stones. The stones are a fairly new innovation, as
Although I use Front Line on the animals regularly and you can buy it easily over here in Italy, I really don’t like using chemicals on my pets. So I’ve put together a few natural flea remedies. Please add your own in the comments box and perhaps together we can defeat the little blighters! Please notethat you try these
I have a great interest in alternative therapies and natural healing techniques, especially for animals. I am going to put together several pages on the ones that have worked for me over the years here in Italy. I don’t know if you have ever tried acupuncture? Originating in China the treatment involves having very fine
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When you go regularly to a place its features become etched on your mind. Your subconscious immediately notices if there is anything different long before your conscious mind does. Such is the case with my regular dog walk. Far into the woods there’s a little home-made wooden cross with a crudely carved hand pointing up
It may be slightly easier when you exchange like for like. When you move from a rural location in your own country to the Italian countryside. But it comes as quite a shock if, as we did, you exchange suburban life in Britain for the Italian rural idyll. What no-one prepares you for is how
We must have looked quite a sight this morning – me and the two dogs and three cats on our daily walk to the woods. The cats have only just started coming along. Sometimes all three of them decide to take some exercise, sometimes it’s only one. Today they were a symmetrical cat sandwich, the two white and black females
Both my dogs love their dollies. Being a Lab, Zsa Zsa has always got something in her mouth and Maia now copies her. With them both having a penchant for stuffed toys things can get quite expensive, so I tend to buy them from charity shops when back home in the UK or from local markets. I’ve also found